Investigation of the Effect of Water Quality on Formation Damage using Porous Discs

Water injection is widely used in the petroleum industry for the increase of hydrocarbon recovery or disposal of wastewater. Water production and injection are the primary mechanisms in Geothermal Energy. Both include injecting water into a porous formation under matrix injection conditions. While maintaining water injection is vital in these...

A microfluidics study of surfactant flooding at optimum and under-optimum conditions

This paper investigates surfactant flooding using a microfluidic device. Its purpose is to validate the results obtained in recent core experiments reported by Janssen et al. (2019) and provide mechanistic interpretation. In these experiments authors injected a surfactant slug into sandstone cores, initially brought to residual oil saturation....

Foam-Assisted Chemical Flooding at Reservoir Conditions

Despite recent drop in the growth of global oil demand, the trend is expected to gradually pick up and continue increasing. Industrial and transportation sectors are still considered the highest consumers of oil. The petrochemicals sector’s demand for oil is increasing sharply and expected to continue in that fashion for the upcoming years. As...

Applicability of bentonite as an alternative material for oil and gas well abandonment

Oil & gas wells are plugged and abandonment when have reached the end of their production life-cycle or are discovered dry during exploration. It is estimated that currently 20-30 million oil & gas wells are waiting to be permanently decommissioned worldwide. The maturation of the oil \& gas industry will only continue to increase...

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) injection into a partially-depleted gas condensate reservoir: A case study for optimal storage and re-use for field life-cycle extension through enhanced hydrocarbon recovery

A pilot for a large scale, fully integrated chain of CO2 capture, transport and storage (CCS) has been initiated in the port of Rotterdam. The initiative aims to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of CCS and show that it can be deployed on a large scale for power plants and energy-intensive industries that emit large volumes of...