A New Way Has Been Found to Increase Oil Recovery Factor During Reservoir Flooding
Scientists from Kazan Federal University have obtained new results in the field of physical and chemical hydrodynamics. They studied the effects of surface tension and contact angle on the adsorbed amount of surfactants. The Devon News Agency was informed about this by the press service of the Institute of Geology …
Indonesia Approves Rokan Block Development Plan
Indonesia has approved a development plan for the Rokan block, which involves increasing oil recovery by displacing oil with steam. Reuters reports this. Let us recall that steam displacement of oil is a method of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) of formations, the most common when displacing high-viscosity oil. The volume …
Gazprom Neft and SNF to Develop EOR Technologies
Gazpromneft – Technological Partnerships (formerly the Bazhen Technology Center), the French SNF holding and its Russian subsidiary SNF Vostok signed a memorandum of cooperation in the development, testing and launch of technologies for chemical enhanced oil recovery technologies on the Russian market. The parties agreed to cooperate in the production …
SPE Workshop Enhanced Oil Recovery Will Take Place 20-21 February 2018
The programme committee of the SPE Workshop on Enhanced Oil Recovery has approved the preliminary programme and invites you to join us on 20–21 February at the Holiday Inn Sokolniki. The programme is published on the regional website: http://rca.spe.org/en/events/spe-workshop-enchanced-oil-recovery/. Workshop participants will have an opportunity to share their own experience, …
Salym Petroleum Development: Launches Alkali, Surfactant and Polymer Mixing Unit
On 24 March Salym Petroleum Development (SPD) launched ASP mixing unit at the Salym group of fields. This unit is the key facility in the infrastructure of the pilot EOR project which involves injection of a three-component mixture – Alkali, Surfactant, and Polymer – into the formation. The start-up ceremony …
Short-Term Well Operation (STWO) as Effective Method of Shale Oil Extraction
Kuzmichev N. P. Petroleum 21st Century LLC, Almetyevsk A surge in the production of shale oil in the United States over the past decade caused oversupply on the world oil market. Between 2005 and 2013, oil production rose from 5.18 million to 7.44 million barrels per day. In December 2014, …
Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods and ASP Technology
Yakov Volokitin, Mikhail Shuster, Volodimir Karpan, Salym Petroleum Development N.V. A steady growth in global energy demand requires more efficient production of traditional reserves. One way to address this challenge is to employ improved oil recovery (IOR) methods, which improve the existing recovery techniques (e.g. waterflooding) and apply new oil …
BP: New Core Flood Robot Enhances Oil Recovery Techniques
BP announced today that it is now operating the world’s first robotic coreflooding system. The Core Flood Robot is the most recent addition to BP’s programme of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) research facilities. Coreflooding is one of the most important techniques used to identify and evaluate EOR technologies. It measures …
Salym Petroleum Development: Started ASP Mixing Unit Construction
Salym Petroleum Development N.V. (SPD) and ООО “Stroytransgaz-M” (STGM) signed a contract for construction of ASP* mixing unit at the West Salym oil field in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra. The ASP mixing unit is designed to prepare a mix of alkali, surfactant and polymer. These components are used in …
The ROGTEC Interview: Mikhail Shuster, ASP Facilities Project Manager, Salym Petroleum Development
Since 2013, Salym Petroleum Development (SPD), the company which develops the Salym group of fields in Western Siberia, has been executing a pilot project for chemical flooding on the basis of a three-component ASP (alkali, surfactant, and polymer) mixture. This April SPD successfully completed drilling of wells for the pilot …