Experimental Study of Enhanced-Heavy-Oil Recovery in Berea Sandstone Cores by Use of Nanofluids Applications

Alomair, Osamah; Matar, Khaled; Alsaeed, Yousef H

doi:10.2118/171539-pa

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“…Alomair et al [173] in their work also using Berea sandstone as the porous media but with aluminium oxide and nickel oxide, silicon oxide, titanium oxide, observed a 6% incremental oil recovery for silicon oxide and aluminium oxide, 1-3% for nickel oxide and titanium oxide. Ragab and Hannora [58] also worked with silica and aluminium nanoparticles, with Berea sandstone as the porous media, they reported a 7% additional recovery.…”

Section: The Efficiency Of Different Nanoparticles During Oil Displacmentioning

confidence: 97%

Mechanism governing nanoparticle flow behaviour in porous media: insight for enhanced oil recovery applications

2018

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Nanotechnology has found its way to petroleum engineering, it is well-accepted path in the oil and gas industry to recover more oil trapped in the reservoir. But the addition of nanoparticles to a liquid can result in the simplest flow becoming complex. To understand the working mechanism, there is a need to study the flow behaviour of these particles. This review highlights the mechanism affecting the flow of nanoparticles in porous media as it relates to enhanced oil recovery. The discussion focuses on chemical-enhanced oil recovery, a review on laboratory experiment on wettability alteration, effect of interfacial tension and the stability of emulsion and foam is discussed. The flow behaviour of nanoparticles in porous media was discussed laying emphasis on the physical aspect of the flow, the microscopic rheological behaviour and the adsorption of the nanoparticles. It was observed that nanofluids exhibit Newtonian behaviour at low shear rate and non-Newtonian behaviour at high shear rate. Gravitational and capillary forces are responsible for the shift in wettability from oil-wet to water-wet. The dominant mechanisms of foam flow process were lamellae division and bubble to multiple bubble lamellae division. In a water-wet system, the dominant mechanism of flow process and residual oil mobilization are lamellae division and emulsification, respectively. Whereas in an oil-wet system, the generation of pre-spinning continuous gas foam was the dominant mechanism. The literature review on oil displacement test and field trials indicates that nanoparticles can recover additional oil. The challenges encountered have opened new frontier for research and are highlighted herein.

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Section: The Efficiency Of Different Nanoparticles During Oil Displacmentioning

confidence: 97%

Mechanism governing nanoparticle flow behaviour in porous media: insight for enhanced oil recovery applications

2018

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“…• Advanced EOR approach -suitable for surface/ interfacial modifications and oil recovery [23,24,31,50,78,79] Inhibition of inorganic scales NP…”

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A Realistic Look at Nanostructured Material as an Innovative Approach for Enhanced Oil Recovery Process Upgrading

Nwidee¹,

Barifcani²,

Lebedev³

et al. 2018

Recent Insights in Petroleum Science and Engineering

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With the continuous rise in energy demand and decline in reserves, the Petroleum Industries are constantly in search of inventive and novel approaches to optimize hydrocarbon recovery despite several decades of deployment of conventional and enhanced strategies. This chapter presents an in-depth analysis of nanomaterial (nanoparticles), their unique characteristics and potentials in relation to smart field development, enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and CO 2 geosequestration. The particles surface functionalities, unique size dependent property, adsorption, and transport behavior were scrutinized. The materials precise role in enhancing reservoir parameters that influences rock-fluid interactions, and reservoir fluid distribution and displacement such as permeability, wettability, interfacial tension, and asphaltene aggregate growth inhibition were evaluated. The study argues that the application of nanoparticle based fluids as novel EOR approach offers more holistic measures, potentials, and opportunities than micro and macro particles and can stimulate the continuous evolution of EOR processes even under harsh reservoir conditions, thus, offering better benefits over conventional surface-active agents. We believe this study will significantly impact the understanding of EOR with respect to nanoparticles, which is crucial for augmenting reservoir processes and to accelerate the realization of nanoparticles for EOR and CO 2 sequestration processes at industrial scale.Keywords: EOR, nanoparticles, adsorption, Asphaltene, wettability, IFT, permeability, viscosity, CO 2 © 2018 The Author(s). Licensee InTech. This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. OverviewIt is a fact that the period of cheap hydrocarbon recovery is waning as hydrocarbons are currently been explored in remote regions under harsh reservoir conditions. The accessible hydrocarbon resources are constantly declining with a corresponding increase in energy demand which invariably contributes to the price irregularities in the oil and gas industry. Globally, the growth in energy demand appears to be predominant amidst feasible unconventional energy options (renewable energy). Unarguably, newer energy sources, such as nuclear, wind, geo-thermal and solar are effective measures for addressing energy shortage. However, they are yet to be ample alternatives for substituting the role of oil in meeting the ever-rising energy demand. To date, these demands are currently being substantiated via hydrocarbon sources especially petroleum -oil is still the most valuable product with great global economic impact. Currently, diverse conventional strategies (waterflooding), and enhanced methods (use of chemicals, gases, and microbes) are been deployed in oil fields, regardless, these challenges persist. More efficient, yet cost-effective, environmenta...

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“…Nanoparticles (NPs) have been extensively used for wettability alteration of reservoir rocks for waterflooding (Maghzi et al, 2011;Giraldo et al, 2013;Hendraningrat et al, 2013;Alomair et al, 2015). The wettability alteration of rock surface is affected by the types of NPs and the underlying mineralogy, leading to different resultant contact angles based on their combinations.…”

Section: Application Of Nanoparticles To Wettability Alteration In Unmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The contact angle of rock surface can be modified by surfactants (Kumar et al, 2008;Chen and Mohanty, 2014), nanoparticle (Maghzi et al, 2011;Alomair et al, 2015), high temperature steam (Bruining and Van Duijn, 2006), brine with various salinities (Lin et al, 2010;Nasralla et al, 2013) and water with different pH (Hoeiland et al, 2001;Morsy et al, 2014). Alteration of contact angle in sandstones and carbonates with variations of salinity and pH has been reported on low salinity waterflooding Morrow and Buckley, 2011).…”

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Effect of Wettability Alteration on Productivity Enhancement in Unconventional Gas Reservoirs: Application of Nanotechnology

2015

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In unconventional water-wet gas reservoirs with very low permeability, water entrapment or blockage can occur near the wellbore due to the capillary end effect, resulting in low gas production. A reduction in capillary forces through wettability alteration of reservoir rock surface is proposed as an effective approach to reduce water blockage and enhance gas production. The method can be applied to accelerating dewatering and preventing drilling and fracturing fluid leak-off as well. Analytical models for steady-state water-gas linear and radial flows are developed in the current paper. The effects of contact angle on capillary pressure and relative permeabilities have been included. The new model is validated using experimental data. Applications to fully and partially treated regimes show the competition between viscous and capillary effects on productivity of gas and water, which leads to an optimal contact angle for the maximum productivity index for each phase. This study shows the potential for optimising unconventional gas productivity through wettability control. Application of nanotechnology to rock wettability alteration is proposed.

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Experimental Study of Enhanced-Heavy-Oil Recovery in Berea Sandstone Cores by Use of Nanofluids Applications

Cited by 66 publications

References 31 publications

Mechanism governing nanoparticle flow behaviour in porous media: insight for enhanced oil recovery applications

Mechanism governing nanoparticle flow behaviour in porous media: insight for enhanced oil recovery applications

A Realistic Look at Nanostructured Material as an Innovative Approach for Enhanced Oil Recovery Process Upgrading

Effect of Wettability Alteration on Productivity Enhancement in Unconventional Gas Reservoirs: Application of Nanotechnology

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