scholarly journals Evaluation of the Foamability Potential of a Novel Biosurfactant Using the Solution to Advective-Diffusive Transport Model in Porous Media With a Linear Adsorption Trend

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Mumuni Amadu ◽  
Adango Madongye
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Analytical Solution ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Transport Model ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Mobility Control ◽  
Saline Aquifers ◽  
Adsorption Model ◽  
Geological Sequestration ◽  
Improved Oil Recovery

While geological sequestration of anthropogenic carbon dioxide is a technically and economically viable option for reducing emissions to the level required to avoid the predicted 2 degrees Celsius increase of atmospheric temperature by the end of this century, efficient sequestration planning is vital for the achievement of this goal.The petroleum industry has used conventional surfactants in enhance oil recovery projects aimed at prolonging the life span of a field, thereby increasing ultimate reserves. Notable among these is the use of surfactants for injected gas relative mobility control. Therefore, the potential for carbon dioxide mobility control in saline aquifers using surfactant alternating gas injection is huge, given the rich experience that can be tapped from the petroleum industry practice.Considering the expected surfactant loses in surfactant-enhanced geological sequestration similar to that encountered in the petroleum industry, this paper has used the analytical solution to advective diffusive equation that exists in the literature with a linear adsorption model where, adsorption has been used to predict trends in minimum pressure drop required for foam generation. The greatest utility of this work lies in the fact that the analytical solution is related a linear adsorption model related to a novel surfactant found from biological and hydrocarbon sources of geologic origin. This paper, therefore, extends the work of linear adsorption models for this novel surfactant aimed at exploring improved oil recovery potentials; in addition to exploring its potential for efficient geological carbon storage in saline aquifers.

Towards Achieving Indonesia's Oil Production Target of 1 MMBOPD by 2030: An Outlook from IATMI Norway

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eko Awan Yudha Fitnawan ◽  
Wibi Aulia Harsum ◽  
Agus Hasan ◽  
Muhammad Iffan Hannanu ◽  
Steven Leonardus Paulus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Improved Oil Recovery ◽  
Future Production ◽  
Production Target

Abstract Indonesia has become a net-oil importer since 2004 as the growing internal demand exceeds Indonesia's oil production. As many fields go into mature phase and combined with other challenges, the national oil production in the last decade has been decreasing from 945 MBOPD to 745 MBOPD with a decline rate of 3-5% per year. Thus, the contribution of the oil and gas sector to the state revenues has also shown a downward trend from 21% in 2010 to only 9.2% in 2019. However,oil production is still strategically importantfor the national economy. It is important for economic value creation, power generation, transportation, and industries as most of the archipelago's infrastructures are still based on fossil energy. If no effort is made to increase production, the country will be fullydependent on crude oil imports, which poses a threat to national energy security. It is thereforeinthe nation's great interest to enhance oil production, minimizing the deficit gapbetween export and import. Several key strategies may be considered to achieve this ambitious target. These strategies can be categorized into the following: 1) People and high performing organization; 2) Exploration, as critical factor for future production; 3) Improved oil recovery (including enhancedoil recovery) technologies, to grow production from the maturing fields; 4) Fast track and simplified project to develop small field discoveries; 5) Strong collaboration between government, industry, academia, and professional associations; and 6)Cost conscious culture. The derivatives of the above-mentioned strategies are among others: standardized resource data management, open source & digitalized geoscience data library, reimbursement system for exploration costs, near field/infrastructure exploration,new play concept, cluster license collaboration, infill wells campaign, multilateral wells, waterflooding, gas injection, stimulation and hydraulic fracturing campaign, well interventions, EOR screening, perfect-well optimization, standardize subsea and/or topside production system, digitalization, and attractive fiscal and regulation that encourages not only the ‘big operator’ to participate in the petroleum sector. The foundation of these strategies should be the legal certainty and effective & proactive bureaucracy. Above all, it is also important to emphasize the common ground of havingearly HSE involvement as part of the solution. In this paper, the authors would like to contribute in sharing the knowledge, technology and perspectives to all petroleum industry professionals in Indonesia based on the authors exposure in the Norwegian petroleum activities. The paper will also review the strategies, short term and long-term opportunities that may inspire Indonesian petroleum authorities and industry in transforming the ambition into action to achieve the national production target of 1 MMBOPD and 12 BCFD gas by 2030.

Synergy of Polymer for Mobility Control and Surfactant for Interface Elasticity Increase in Improved Oil Recovery

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taniya Kar ◽  
Abbas Firoozabadi
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Synergistic Effects ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
Mobility Control ◽  
Residual Oil ◽  
Sweep Efficiency ◽  
Improved Oil Recovery ◽  
Low Salinity ◽  
Low Salinity Waterflooding

Abstract Improved oil recovery in carbonate rocks through modified injection brine has been investigated extensively in recent years. Examples include low salinity waterflooding and surfactant injection for the purpose of residual oil reduction. Polymer addition to injection water for improvement of sweep efficiency enjoys field success. The effect of low salinity waterflooding is often marginal and it may even decrease recovery compared to seawater flooding. Polymer and surfactant injection are often effective (except at very high salinities and temperatures) but concentrations in the range of 5000 to 10000 ppm may make the processes expensive. We have recently suggested the idea of ultra-low concentration of surfactants at 100 ppm to decrease residual oil saturation from increased brine-oil interfacial elasticity. In this work, we investigate the synergistic effects of polymer injection for sweep efficiency and the surfactant for interfacial elasticity modification. The combined formulation achieves both sweep efficiency and residual oil reduction. A series of coreflood tests is performed on a carbonate rock using three crude oils and various injection brines: seawater and formation water with added surfactant and polymer. Both the surfactant and polymer are found to improve recovery at breakthrough via increase in oil-brine interfacial elasticity and injection brine viscosification, respectively. The synergy of surfactant and polymer mixed with seawater leads to higher viscosity and higher oil recovery. The overall oil recovery is found to be a strong function of oil-brine interfacial viscoelasticity with and without the surfactant and polymer in sea water and connate water injection.

CO 2 -sensitive and self-enhanced foams for mobility control during CO 2 injection for improved oil recovery and geo-storage

2017 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 113-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dexiang Li ◽  
Shaoran Ren ◽  
Panfeng Zhang ◽  
Liang Zhang ◽  
Yunjun Feng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Mobility Control ◽  
Improved Oil Recovery

scholarly journals Concentration, Brine Salinity and Temperature effects on Xanthan Gum Solutions Rheology

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateus Ribeiro Veiga de Moura ◽  
Rosângela Barros Zanoni Lopes Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Enhanced Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Rheological Behavior ◽  
Xanthan Gum ◽  
Salt Content ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Mobility Control ◽  
Solution Viscosity ◽  
Heterogeneous Reservoirs ◽  
Reservoir Conditions

AbstractXanthan gum is a biopolymer used in several different industries for a variety of applications. In the Petroleum Industry, xanthan gum has been applied in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) methods for mobility control due to its Non-Newtonian rheological behavior, relative insensitivity to salinity and temperature compared to other conventional synthetic polymers, as well as its environmentally-friendly characteristics. As challenging reservoir conditions arise, candidate polymers should meet the screening factors for high salinity, high temperatures and heterogeneous reservoirs. This paper aims to evaluate the effects of temperature and monovalent salts on the rheological behavior of xanthan gum for Enhanced Oil Recovery purposes. We tested polymer solutions with brine salinities of 20,000/110,000/220,000 ppm of Sodium Chloride in a rheometer at temperatures of 23, 50, and 77°C. The results acquired showed that temperature plays a key role in viscosity and salinity protected the solution viscosity against negative thermal effects, unusually a turning point is observed where the increase in the monovalent salt content enhanced the polymeric solution viscosity. Such investigations coupled with a detailed discussion presented in the paper contribute to understand critical aspects of xanthan gum and its capability to provide basic requirements that fit desired screening factors for EOR.

Experimental Study on Pseudo-Plastic Behavior for Film Foam Flow in a Vertical Tube

2011 ◽  
Vol 221 ◽  
pp. 194-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Xing Du ◽  
Ying Ge Li ◽  
Shi Jiao Sun
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Vertical Tube ◽  
Mobility Control ◽  
Plastic Behavior ◽  
Straight Tube ◽  
Flow Behavior Index ◽  
Foam Flow

Foam has been widely used as a mobility control agent for improved oil recovery, gas blocking and acid diversion during matrix stimulation in petroleum industry. For understanding foam rheology in porous media, this paper reports an experimental study on film foam flow characteristics in a vertical straight tube. Foam is treated as pseudo-plastic fluid and its non-Newtonian behavior is investigated based on power law constitutive model. It is observed the film foam flow shows clear shear-thinning behavior, with flow consistency coefficient of K=0.11 and flow behavior index of n=0.62. The apparent viscosity of flowing film foam is under the shear rate of 50s-1, which is 25 times higher than the single phase water.

Anomalous Foam-Fractional-Flow Solutions at High-Injection Foam Quality

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. 40-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.. Roostapour ◽  
S.I.. I. Kam
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Water Saturation ◽  
Mobility Control ◽  
Injection Velocity ◽  
Fractional Flow ◽  
Improved Oil Recovery ◽  
High Injection ◽  
Constant State ◽  
Dry Conditions ◽  
First Time

Summary A thorough understanding of foam fundamentals is crucial to the optimal design of foams for improved oil recovery (IOR) or enhanced oil recovery (EOR). This study, for the first time, presents anomalous foam-fractional-flow solutions that deviate significantly from the conventional solutions at high-injection foam qualities by comparing method-of-characteristics and mechanistic bubble-population-balance simulations. The results from modeling and simulations derived from coreflood experiments revealed the following: The fraction of grinding energy contributed by the flowing gas (fg)There are three regions—Region A with relatively wet (or high fw) injection conditions in which the solutions are consistent with the conventional fractional-flow theory; Region C with very dry (or low fw) injection conditions in which the solutions deviate significantly; and Region B in between, which has a negative dfw/dSw slope showing physically unstable solutions.For dry-injection conditions in Region C, the solutions require a constant state (IJ) between initial (I) and injection (J) conditions, forcing a shock from I to IJ by intersecting fractional-flow curves, followed by spreading waves or another shock to reach from IJ to J.The location of IJ in fw vs. Sw domain moves to the left (or toward lower Sw) as the total injection velocity increases for both weak and strong foams until it reaches limiting water saturation. Even though foams at high-injection quality are popular for mobility control associating a minimum amount of surfactant solutions, foam behaviors at dry conditions have not been thoroughly investigated and understood. The outcome of this study is believed to be helpful to the successful planning of foam IOR/EOR field applications.

Surfactant Prefloods During Carbon Dioxide Foam Injection for Integrated Enhanced Oil Recovery in Fractured Oil-Wet Carbonates

SPE Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (03) ◽  
pp. 1139-1153 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. B. Fredriksen ◽  
Z. P. Alcorn ◽  
A.. Frøland ◽  
A.. Viken ◽  
A. U. Rognmo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Enhanced Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Surfactant Solution ◽  
Mobility Control ◽  
Threshold Pressure ◽  
Oil Saturation ◽  
Co2 Foam ◽  
Matrix Blocks ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Co2

Summary An integrated enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR) (IEOR) approach is used in fractured oil-wet carbonate core plugs where surfactant prefloods reduce interfacial tension (IFT), alter wettability, and establish conditions for capillary continuity to improve tertiary carbon dioxide (CO2) foam injections. Surfactant prefloods can alter the wettability of oil-wet fractures toward neutral/weakly-water-wet conditions that in turn reduce the capillary threshold pressure for foam generation in matrix and create capillary contact between matrix blocks. The capillary connectivity can transmit differential pressure across fractures and increase both mobility control and viscous displacement during CO2-foam injections. Outcrop core plugs were aged to reflect conditions of an ongoing CO2-foam injection field pilot in west Texas. Surfactants were screened for their ability to change the wetting state from oil-wet using the Darcy-scale Amott-Harvey index. A cationic surfactant was the most effective in shifting wettability from an Amott-Harvey index of –0.56 to 0.09. Second waterfloods after surfactant treatments and before tertiary CO2-foam injections recovered an additional 4 to 11% of original oil in place (OIP) (OOIP), verifying the favorable effects of a surfactant preflood to mobilize oil. Tertiary CO2-foam injections revealed the significance of a critical oil-saturation value below which CO2 and surfactant solution were able to enter the oil-wet matrix and generate foam for EOR. The results reveal that a surfactant preflood can reverse the wettability of oil-wet fracture surfaces, lower IFT, and lower capillary threshold pressure to reduce oil saturation to less than a critical value to generate stable CO2 foam.

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