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Title Fundamentals of enhanced oil recovery methods for unconventional oil reservoirs / edited by Dheiaa Alfarge, Mingzhen Wei, Baojun Bai, Zhangxin Chen
Published Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Developments in petroleum science ; v. 67
Developments in petroleum science ; 67.
Contents Introduction to shale and tight oil reservoirs -- CO2-EOR in shale-oil reservoirs based on a laboratory database -- Comparative analysis between CO2-EOR mechanisms in conventional reservoirs versus shale and tight reservoirs -- Natural gas-based EOR versus CO2-EOR in shale and tight oil reservoirs -- Air injection in shale and tight oil reservoirs -- Water injection in unconventional reservoirs -- Chemical enhanced oil recovery methods for unconventional reservoirs -- Selection criteria for miscible gases-based EOR in unconventional liquid-rich reservoirs (ULR) -- Other enhanced oil recovery methods for unconventional reservoirs -- The effects of nanopore confinement on different enhanced oil recovery methods -- The impacts of geomechanics coupling on CO2-EOR -- Comparative and optimization of CO2 and natural gas EOR methods
Summary Fundamentals of Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods for Unconventional Oil Reservoirs, Volume 67 provides important guidance on which EOR methods work in shale and tight oil reservoirs. This book helps readers learn the main fluid and rock properties of shale and tight reservoirs--which are the main target for EOR techniques--and understand the physical and chemical mechanisms for the injected EOR fluids to enhance oil recovery in shale and tight oil reservoirs. The book explains the effects of complex hydraulic fractures and natural fractures on the performance of each EOR technique. The book describes the parameters affecting obtained oil recovery by injecting different EOR methods in both the microscopic and macroscopic levels of ULR. This book also provides proxy models to associate the functionality of the improved oil recovery by injecting different EOR methods with different operating parameters, rock, and fluid properties. The book provides profesasionals working in the petroleum industry the know-how to conduct a successful project for different EOR methods in shale plays, while it also helps academics and students in understanding the basics and principles that make the performance of EOR methods so different in conventional reservoirs and unconventional formations
Notes Includes index
Subject Enhanced oil recovery.
Enhanced oil recovery
Form Electronic book
Author Alfarge, Dheiaa, editor
Wei, Mingzhen, editor
Bai, Baojun, editor
Chen, Zhangxin, editor
ISBN 9780128183441
0128183446