New Insight in Enhanced Oil Recovery Process Analysis and Application
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2024) | Viewed by 10453
Special Issue Editors
Interests: enhanced oil recovery; chemical flooding; multiphase flow in porous media; intelligent oil production optimization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Various enhanced oil recovery methods have been widely used to improve reservoir development performance worldwide. Chemical flooding methods effectively enhance the oil recovery of heterogeneous oil reservoirs. Thermal oil recovery methods have been successfully applied in heavy oil reservoirs. Considering the extensive depletion of easily accessible resources and the environmental concerns, researchers and engineers have to provide new insights into enhanced oil recovery methods for developing oil reservoirs operating in harsh conditions. In recent years, a promising chemical method introducing viscoelastic soft solid particles into polymer/surfactant solution was successfully used in a pilot test of the Shengli Oilfield in China. The new insight breaks the tradition of only using homogeneous liquid or gas phase as displacing fluid in petroleum engineering. Another example is the chemical cold production method for harsh heavy oil reservoirs, where the traditional thermal methods show poor performance because of the high humidity of steam, badly developed steam cavity, serious loss of heat and negative environmental impact. In fact, the revolution in enhanced oil recovery methods is just beginning, and more efforts are needed from researchers all over the world.
This Special Issue on “New Insight in Enhanced Oil Recovery Process Analysis and Application” aims to gather and promote new insights in the development and application of enhanced oil recovery methods to improve oil development performance in harsher reservoirs. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Chemical flooding methods;
- Thermal oil recovery methods;
- Cold production methods for heavy oil reservoirs;
- Multiphase seepage flow in enhanced oil recovery;
- Intelligent oil production optimization.
Dr. Kang Zhou
Dr. Qingjun Du
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- enhanced oil recovery
- chemical flooding
- thermal oil recovery
- cold production
- multiphase seepage flow
- intelligent oil production optimization
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