• Login
    View Item 
    •   Home
    • Theses & Dissertations
    • 2015 - Mines Theses & Dissertations
    • View Item
    •   Home
    • Theses & Dissertations
    • 2015 - Mines Theses & Dissertations
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of Mines RepositoryCommunitiesPublication DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionPublication DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

    My Account

    Login

    Mines Links

    Arthur Lakes LibraryColorado School of Mines

    Statistics

    Display Statistics

    Assessing productivity impairment of surfactant-polymer EOR using laboratory and field data

    • CSV
    • RefMan
    • EndNote
    • BibTex
    • RefWorks
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    IZADIKAMOUEI_mines_0052E_10686.pdf
    Size:
    4.762Mb
    Format:
    PDF
    Description:
    Assessing productivity impairment ...
    Download
    Author
    Izadi Kamouei, Mehdi
    Advisor
    Kazemi, Hossein
    Manrique, E. (Eduardo)
    Date issued
    2015
    Keywords
    surfactant
    field
    polymer
    laboratory
    EOR
    simulation
    Enhanced oil recovery
    Polymers
    Surface active agents
    Enhanced oil recovery -- Simulation methods
    
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/11124/17098
    Abstract
    Surfactant-polymer (SP) flooding is an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technique used to mobilize residual oil by lowering the oil-water interfacial tension, micellar solubilization, and lowering the displacing phase mobility to improve sweep efficiency. Surfactant-polymer flooding, also known as micellar flooding, has been studied both in the laboratory and field pilot tests for several decades. Surfactant polymer flooding is believed to be a major enhanced oil recovery technique based on laboratory experiments; however, its applications to field has not met the expectations of laboratory results. Successful field applications of SP flooding have been limited because of a number of obstacles, which include the large number of laboratory experiments required to design an appropriate SP system, high sensitivity to reservoir rock and fluid characteristics, complexity of reservoirs, infrastructure required for field implementation, and lack of reliable statistics on successes of field applications. In other words, there are many variables that affect reservoir performance. Traditionally, in SP flooding, a tapered polymer solution follows the injected surfactant slug. However, in recent years co-injection of surfactant and a relatively high concentration of polymer solution have been used in several field trials. Despite significant increase in oil recovery at early times in several surfactant-polymer floods, the increase in oil production period has had short duration followed by significant reduction in oil production. Thus, this research primarily relied on field test data to understand the problem, hoping that an improved solution strategy can be developed for new field applications. Second, current numerical models do not correctly predict the performance of surfactant-polymer floods and tend to over predict. Thus the second objective of this research was to develop a methodology to use combined field and laboratory data in commercial simulators to improve their predictive capability.
    Rights
    Copyright of the original work is retained by the author.
    Collections
    2015 - Mines Theses & Dissertations

    entitlement

     
    DSpace software (copyright © 2002 - 2023)  DuraSpace
    Quick Guide | Contact Us
    Open Repository is a service operated by 
    Atmire NV
     

    Export search results

    The export option will allow you to export the current search results of the entered query to a file. Different formats are available for download. To export the items, click on the button corresponding with the preferred download format.

    By default, clicking on the export buttons will result in a download of the allowed maximum amount of items.

    To select a subset of the search results, click "Selective Export" button and make a selection of the items you want to export. The amount of items that can be exported at once is similarly restricted as the full export.

    After making a selection, click one of the export format buttons. The amount of items that will be exported is indicated in the bubble next to export format.