Factors influencing successful implementation of enhanced oil recovery projects
Faktori od uticaja na uspešnost realizacije projekta povećanja iskorišćenja naftnih ležišta
Keywords:
enhanced oil recovery project; influential key factors; successful implementation
Abstract
Tertiary methods in oil production process called 'Enhanced Oil recovery methods' (EOR) are mostly applied in mature oil fields with declining production trend after primary and secondary recovery methods or immediately after primary production phase. These 'Enhanced Oil Recovery' methods implies injection of gases or fluids to mobilize residual oil captured in reservoir rock due to presence of strong viscous and capillary forces and high value of interfacial tension between fluid and rock. Depending on the type of injected fluid, production mechanism, as well as an approach to implementation, EOR methods are divided into thermal methods, chemical methods, miscible/immiscible gas injection methods and other methods that so far have an experimental application. The paper analyzes the key factors influencing the successful implementation of EOR projects: phases of EOR project implementation, the price of crude oil at the world market as a criterion for the beginning and the justification for EOR process application and development of new technologies for more efficient process realization.References
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HITE, J. et al. (2003) IOR and EOR: effective communication requires a definition of terms. Journal of Petroleum Technology, 55 (6), p. 16.
HOLLOWAY, S. et al. (2006) Carbon dioxide transport, injection and geological storage. In: EGGLESTON, S. et al. (eds.) 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Volume 2: Energy. Hayama: Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, pp. 5.1-5.32.
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metal-prices/crude-oil/1-year/ [Accessed 20/11/2014].
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LAKE, W. L. and WALSH, P. M. (2008) Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) [Technical report]. Austin: Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas at Austin.
MUGGERIDGE, A. et al. (2014) Recovery rates, enhanced oil recovery and technological limits. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 372
(2006), pp 1-25.
SATTER, A. and THAKUR, C. G. (1994) Integrated petroleum reservoir management. Tulsa: PennWell Publishing Company.
SCHLUMBERGER (2014) Seizing the EOR opportunity [Online] Schlumberger. Available from: http://www.sbc.slb.com/Our_Ideas/Energy_Perspectives/2nd%20Semester13_Content/2nd%20Semester%202013_Seizing.aspx [Accessed 10/03/2014].
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TABER, J. J. (1983) Technical Screening Guides for the Enhanced Recovery of Oil. In: Proceedings of the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, San Francisco, October 1983. Society of Petroleum Engineers, SPE 12069.
TABER, J. J. et al. (1997) EOR Screening Criteria Revisited - Part 1: Introduction to Screening Criteria and Enhanced Recovery Field Projects. SPE Reservoir Engineering, 12 (3), pp. 189-198.
TERRY, E. R. (2001) Enhanced Oil Recovery. In: MAYERS, A. R. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Vol.18, 3rd edition. San Diego: Academic press, pp 503-518.
TRUJILLO, M. et al. (2010) Selection Methodology for Screening Evaluation of Enhanced-Oil-Recovery. In: Proceedings of the 2010 LACPEC - SPE Latin
American & Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference 'Latin America's Energy Challenge: Sustainable & Responsible Economic Development',
Lima, Decembre 2010. Society of Petroleum Engineers, SPE 139222.
U.S. ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION (n.d.) Annual energy outlook 2014 with projection until 2040 [Online] U.S. Enegry Information
Administration. Available from: http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/pdf/0383(2014).pdf [Accessed 10/10/2014].
VISIONGAIN, (2014) The 25 Leading Companies in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) [Online] Visiongain. Available from: https://www.visiongain.com/
Report/1212/The-25-Leading-Companies-in-Enhanced-Oil-Recovery-(EOR)- 2014 [Accessed 01/11/2014].
ZITHA, P. et al. (2011) Increasing Hydrocarbon Recovery Factors [Online] Society of Petroleum Engineers. Available from: http://www.spe.org/industry/docs/recoveryfactors.pdf [Accessed 08/09/2014].
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2017-03-19
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Karović-Maričić, V., Leković, B., & Danilović, D. (2017). Factors influencing successful implementation of enhanced oil recovery projects. Podzemni Radovi, (25), 41-50. https://doi.org/10.5937/podrad1425041K
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