Advances in Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (18 December 2020) | Viewed by 15968
Special Issue Editors
Interests: special core analysis; multiphase flow in porous media; enhanced oil and gas recovery; relative permeabilities; CO2 geo-storage and utilisation; relative permeability modifiers
Interests: petroleum related rock mechanics; hydraulic fracturing; sanding
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Dear Colleagues,
Crude oil and natural gas have helped the world to cope with its ever-increasing demand for energy over the past century. Petrochemical byproducts have also been used as raw material in the manufacturing industry. With the increasing environmental awareness globally, there has been a strong urge to shift to renewables to meet the world’s energy demand. However, hydrocarbons are expected to retain their critical role in industrial development for years to come. Although the share of the renewables in energy generation would increase in the future, so will the overall demand for energy, which could lead to an even further increase in the demand for hydrocarbons. Even if the world reaches a stage where it can meet its energy needs primarily from renewable resources, it would need hydrocarbons as feedstock for the much needed and irreplaceable petrochemical byproducts. Moreover, in environmental circles, natural gas is widely considered as a low carbon transition fuel essential in the progression towards less dependence on fossil fuels, substantially boosting its demand in the coming years.
Given the recent decline in the number of new major discoveries and that many producing fields are already mature or reaching maturity, the above foreseeable increase in demand for hydrocarbons may only be met via the implementation of suitable enhanced recovery techniques. The potential for such techniques is further realized knowing that currently, only about a third of the oil present in a typical reservoir can be recovered. Although so far, a number of enhanced recovery techniques have been developed, trialed or implemented worldwide, moving forward, significant technical, operational, economic, and environmental challenges lie ahead towards their wider application. Each of these challenges would demand carefully tailored recipes for the required injectants and specially designed implementation strategies, both of which tend to be case dependent.
With the above in mind, the international journal Energies is going to have a Special Issue covering the recent advancements made in the EOR/EGR technologies towards addressing the challenges faced by the industry in the wider implementation of such techniques. The Special Issue is open to all contributions related but not limited to the following EOR/EGR related topics:
- Technical challenges
- Operational challenges
- Environmental impacts/benefits
- Economic factors
- Unconventionals (shale oil, shale gas)
- Extra-heavy crudes
- Low salinity/smart water flooding
- Carbon capture and utilization
- EOR and reservoir characterization
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Saeedi
Dr. Mohammad Sarmadivaleh
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
- Enhanced Gas Recovery (EGR)
- Miscible/Immiscible Flooding
- Carbon Capture and Utilization
- Chemical Flooding
- Thermal EOR
- Water Flooding
- Unconventional resources
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