Managing Chemical EOR (ASP) Effects on Formation Damage and Flow Assurance in Malay Basin, Malaysia

Yee, Hon Vai; Halim, Nor Hadhirah; Salleh, Intan Khalida; Hamid, Pauziyah Abdul; Sedaralit, M Faizal

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“…Most of the papers on emulsions only address the separation and demulsification issues once emulsions are produced (Kokal, et al 2005, Wang, et al, Alvarado, et al, 2008, Yee, et al, 2013 and not the reasons for productivity loss observed in both polymer and SP or ASP flooding. In this thesis, I address blockage of micro-emulsion in the formation.…”

Section: Emulsion Sizes and Pore Size Distributionmentioning

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Assessing Productivity Impairment of Surfactant-Polymer EOR Using Laboratory and Field Data

Kamouei

2018

SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference

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Surfactant-polymer (SP) flooding is an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technique used to mobilize residual oil by lowering the oil-water interfacial tension, micellar solubilization, and lowering the displacing phase mobility to improve sweep efficiency. Surfactant-polymer flooding, also known as micellar flooding, has been studied both in the laboratory and field pilot tests for several decades. Surfactant polymer flooding is believed to be a major enhanced oil recovery technique based on laboratory experiments; however, its applications to field has not met the expectations of laboratory results. Successful field applications of SP flooding have been limited because of a number of obstacles, which include the large number of laboratory experiments required to design an appropriate SP system, high sensitivity to reservoir rock and fluid characteristics, complexity of reservoirs, infrastructure required for field implementation, and lack of reliable statistics on successes of field applications. In other words, there are many variables that affect reservoir performance. Traditionally, in SP flooding, a tapered polymer solution follows the injected surfactant slug. However, in recent years co-injection of surfactant and a relatively high concentration of polymer solution have been used in several field trials. Despite significant increase in oil recovery at early times in several surfactant-polymer floods, the increase in oil production period has had short duration followed by significant reduction in oil production. Thus, this research primarily relied on field test data to understand the problem, hoping that an improved solution strategy can be developed for new field applications. Second, current numerical models do not correctly predict the performance of surfactant-polymer floods and tend to over predict. Thus the second objective of this research was to develop a methodology to use combined field and laboratory data in commercial simulators to improve their predictive capability. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Section: Emulsion Sizes and Pore Size Distributionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing Productivity Impairment of Surfactant-Polymer EOR Using Laboratory and Field Data

Kamouei

2018

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Formation damage in chemical enhanced oil recovery processes

Sheng

2016

Asia-Pacific J Chem Eng

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Generally, we do not link enhanced oil recovery (EOR) to formation damage. However, formation damage can occur during chemical EOR processes, although it is not often discussed in literature on the topic. This unfortunate gap in EOR literature ignores the fascinating fact that sometimes the formation damages in some chemical EOR processes are the very mechanisms that enhance oil recovery. This paper summarizes all of the formation damages in chemical EOR processes. The conditions and mechanisms to occur are detailed. Benefits and consequences are discussed. Solutions to promote the benefits and negate the consequences are summarized and/or proposed. This paper suggests that relevant experiments should be conducted to assess possible formation damages in chemical EOR processes. © 2016 Curtin University of Technology and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Managing Chemical EOR (ASP) Effects on Formation Damage and Flow Assurance in Malay Basin, Malaysia

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Assessing Productivity Impairment of Surfactant-Polymer EOR Using Laboratory and Field Data

Assessing Productivity Impairment of Surfactant-Polymer EOR Using Laboratory and Field Data

Formation damage in chemical enhanced oil recovery processes

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