.... The observation made by several researchers ( Wassmuth et al ., 2012 ; Asghari and Nakutnyy, 2008 ; Sim et al ., 2014 ) is that when either polymers or surfactants are injected into water-swept heavy oil systems, incremental oil recovery is accompanied by the build up of pressure across the core...

... of the diluent). This study provides guidelines to select one of the three following methods: diluent injection, emulsion injection or reservoir-based technology. Previous operators performed extensive reservoir characterization and simulation modeling which led to recovering over 200 million barrels of heavy...

... matrix (porous part) and a 1 cm × 5 cm conduit to represent a fracture or wormhole. As the glass substrate is naturally water-wet, the micromodel is assumed to be initially water-wet. Abstract Solvent injection has been given attention to enhance oil recovery by sole use or in combination...

...Antiswelling Agent At the begin of the process, wells did not receive enough steam to increase production; then was necessary to carry out sensibility analysis to the shale content and its reaction with the steam and also fix steam characteristics to improve injectivity. Due to the high clay...

...Criteria for selection of pilots wells for cyclic fluids injection To realize a fluids cyclic injection project it's must be taken into account some criteria such as the fluids characteristics to inject and reservoir fluids, reservoir properties; pressure, temperature, saturations, rock...

... 1. Application for the packer 2. Pressure-differential rating of the end result 3. Deployment complexity 4. Deployment time For steam injection, an additional factor can be added as 5. High Temperature integrity properties. Abstract Steam injection is a known...

... or described. Most of the studies on smart water injection have been conducted on light oil and have been focused on both sandstone and carbonate reservoirs. However, there are insufficient published reports in the literature on the application of smart water injection for improvement of heavy oil and extra...

...Foams in porous media Bulk foam tests yield two kinds of information: foamability under shear conditions and static foam stability of a surfactant solution. In bulk foam tests, a finite volume of foam is generated by gas bubbling into a surfactant solution or by co-injection of gas...

... enhanced recovery Colombia hardware water production reservoir modeling completion saturation injection drainage Ecuador portura wellbore Upstream Oil & Gas AICD completion hydrocarbon Inflow Control Device Latin America INTRODUCTION Today, heavy oil constitutes some...

... The objectives of the present work are focused in the oil matrix extraction, and in situ upgrading of oil from a naturally fractured reservoir from Mexico, as a consequence of a hot fluid injection with ultra-dispersed nano catalyst at a laboratory level. Abstract The purpose...

... oil viscosity require an enhance oil recovery (EOR) processes to pursuit a commercial development. Among the recovery methods applied to heavy oil reservoirs, the most popular is steam injection in its different schemes. Nevertheless, in high initial water saturation environments the thermal...

... recovery factor, the foam injection can be mentioned. The foam may be used as a selective block agent of the reservoir, which reduces the effective permeability zones already swept with high permeability. A widely used tool for this purpose is the simulation of petroleum reservoirs, which through...

... to as smart water injection. The improvement of oil recovery by smart water injection is mainly attributed to wettability modification in the presence of certain ions at high temperature. The resultant favourable wettability modification is especially important for naturally fractured reservoirs where...

... coefficient LCTE high temperature linear expansion injection cement sheath cement formulation cement chemistry cement sample correction factor thermal expansion well integrity permeability Cement System system 2 expansion flexible particle Simulations were performed with Schlumberger...

... of these fields and the underlying common aquifer. The fields have been Mexico's largest contributor to oil production since January 2009 and the oil production has averaged 833,000 BOPD in 2013. N 2 injection for pressure maintenance purposes has been through 9 wells at total rate of 600 MMscf/d. Fig. 2 shows...

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... Selective steam injection is presented as an alternative that improves the development of a field, increasing oil recovery intensifying the injection of steam into formations with medium and low permeability and in turn reducing the steam channeling. Selective Steam Injection...

... at the time of these studies. The first case is about injected steam conformance in a horizontal well and in a loose fluvial sand reservoir. The lack of conformance has been modeled and after that simulated using proper reservoir modeling and simulation applications. The second case which has been studied...

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