Methods for Enhancing Recovery of Heavy Crude Oil

Abstract

The methods of enhancing recovery of heavy crude oil explore the importance of enhanced oil recovery and how it has grown in recent years due to the increased needs to locate unconventional resources such as heavy oil, shale, and bitumen. Unfortunately, petroleum engineers and managers are not always well-versed in the enhancement methods available when needed or the most economically viable solution to maximize their reservoir's productivity. Various recovery methods have been explored to extract heavy oil from deep reservoirs or oil spills. This chapter summarizes the details of methods, namely nanoparticle technology, carbon dioxide injection, thermal recovery and chemical injection, which include the methodology as well as the findings.

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“…Heavy oil production includes many new novel technologies for extracting heavy oil since the estimated reserves are approximated to be something over 6 trillion barrels, three times the number of conventional oil and gas production [156]. In recent years, many methods for enhancing the recovery of heavy crude oil have been developed due to the constantly increasing demand for discovering new unconventional resources such as heavy oil, shale, and bitumen [157]. EOR methods used to recover the viscous heavy oil comprise non-thermal and thermal methods.…”