Modern Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery Theory and Practice

The authors of “Modern Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery Theory and Practice” primarily target petroleum professionals. They’ve collected, synthesized, and summarized vital data, particularly Chinese information not readily accessible in Western literature. Furthermore, they’ve comprehensively covered the fundamental theories and practices of alkaline (A), surfactant (S), and polymer (P) flooding processes, with special attention to alkaline-surfactant-polymer (ASP) flooding, an underrepresented topic in English-language enhanced oil recovery books. The book also provides a selection of pilot studies and field cases, each addressing unique issues.

This book of “Modern Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery Theory and Practice” also proposes some new concepts and ideas or hypotheses. Some of these findings require validation through additional research, while others may serve as catalysts for further research inquiries.  From this standpoint, this book could be useful to researchers. The basic theories and sample calculations should help students and professionals who are less experienced in this area.  Environmental engineering professionals involved in waste cleanup and non aqueous phase liquids (NAPL) remediation can also benefit from this book. It strives to maintain a balanced approach between theory and practical application while offering an abundance of extensive references.

The book provides important case studies related to over one hundred EOR pilot and field applications in a variety of oil fields. These case studies focus on practical problems, underlying theoretical and modelling methods, operational parameters (e.g., injected chemical concentration, slug sizes, flooding schemes and well spacing), solutions and sensitivity studies, and performance optimization strategies. The book strikes an ideal balance between theory and practice, and would be invaluable to academicians and oil company practitioners alike.

Contents

• Chapter 1 introduces general EOR and how this book is organized.
• Chapter 2 discusses the fundamentals of chemical transport and fractional flow analysis.
• Chapter 3 reviews salinity and ion exchange, and the effect of salinity on waterflooding.
• Chapter 4 proposes a new mobility control requirement for enhanced oil recovery processes.
• Chapter 5 presents fundamentals and field practices of polymer flooding.
• Chapter 6 reviews polymer viscoelastic behavior.
• Chapter 7 discusses the fundamentals, concepts, and issues related to surfactant flooding.
• Chapter 8 proposes new concepts of optimum salinity type and optimum salinity profile in surfactant flooding.
• Chapter 9 discusses surfactant-polymer interactions.
• Chapter 10 presents the fundamentals and modeling of alkaline flooding.
• Chapter 11 discusses alkaline-polymer interactions.
• Chapter 12 discusses alkaline-surfactant synergy.
• Chapter 13 focuses on emulsion and ASP field applications.