Strategy for Optimum Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery Field Operation

Document Type : Review Article

Authors

1 CEPETRO—Center for Energy and Petroleum Studies/University of Campinas, P.O. Box 6052, 13083-970 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

2 Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 200 E. Dean Keeton St., C0300, TX 78712-158s5, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

The main objective of this review paper is to present practical considerations for field implementation of chemical enhanced oil recovery (CEOR) methods which are complex and require a tailored study for a given reservoir.  Researchers have examined several CEOR methods and screening standards. To the best of our knowledge, however, there is no thorough review paper to provide a detailed workflow for transitioning laboratory studies into best practices to field project execution and operations. We analyze and highlight more than thirty publications published between 2018 and 2021 in order to give the readers the latest information about different CEOR methods. We also present a summary of both conventional and cutting-edge CEOR technologies. This provides the readers, researcher, and chemical suppliers with a better understanding of the novel hybrid techniques that are currently being developed. We present several tools for ranking and selecting the CEOR methods, such as techniques for selecting chemicals, screening guidelines, laboratory workflow, injection parameters, chemical formulations, and economic parameters.  Our survey's findings indicate that scaling up from laboratory scale to field deployment has many challenges and barriers. These barriers include; project cost, history match and forecast simulations, surveillance, facilities, hybrid method considerations, standardization of performance metrics, the onset of CEOR projects, chemical manufacturing, and the environmental impacts of CEOR operations. Finally, based on these findings, we have proposed a new workflow for practical implementation of CEOR projects.  In summary, this paper provides a practical strategy for developing, implementing, and assessing CEOR field operations.

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Strategy for Optimum Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery Field Operation

Highlights

A comprehensive review of traditional and novel hybrid CEOR methods.

Provide different methodologies to screen and rank CEOR methods.

Review of experimental workflow for CEOR and scale up methodologies from lab scale to field pilot.

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