New Technologies of Enhanced Oil Recovery
OAO TATNEFT today focuses its attention on the use of various physical and chemical methods of enhanced oil recovery. Leading experts of OAO TATNEFT and TatNIPIneft have developed a technology of injecting compositions containing surface-active agents (surfactants) and polymers, which allow improving oil field development parameters and contributing to additional …
Tatneft Implements Effective Methods of Enhanced Oil Recovery
Modern methods of enhancing crude oil recovery are being successfully appled at TATNEFT Company in order to increase oil recovery from the fields in the late stage of development. One way to increase the sweep efficiency of oil saturated reservoirs is injection of guar gum based gel-forming compositions into the …
New Methods to Evaluate the Performance of Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques in Active Wells
One of the specific features of Brownfield development is a gradual yet steady production decline. First and foremost, this is caused by reserves depletion, reservoir pressure decline, and increased watercut. Various enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques are used to maintain production or slow down its declining production rates and therefore …
LUKoil: Enhanced Oil Recovery
Crude oil production from the Korchagin oil field in the Caspian Sea started in 2010. The oil field will be developed with super-long horizontal wells of over 5 km, a unique engineering design solution for Russia. The simultaneous drilling of all oil-bearing strata will be achieved through a uniform radial …