Journal of Petroleum & Environmental Biotechnology

Challenges and prospects of oil production with EOR techniques in India

4^th International Conference on Petroleum Engineering

August 15-17, 2016 London, UK

Tarkeshwar Kumar

Indian School of Mines, India

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Pet Environ Biotechnol

Abstract:

Production of enhanced oil has been badly affected due to current fall of oil price resulting into serious crisis for some of the EOR projects as these are no longer economically viability. This in turn is putting challenge to the oil industry to recover oil from more complicated areas. After primary and secondary methods two thirds of the original oil in place (OOIP) in a reservoir is not produced and still pending for recovery by efficient enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods. Exploration Geoscientists are looking for new discoveries in the deeper and erstwhile inaccessible basins for petroleum resources. Enhanced oil and gas recovery (EOGR) methods have a large scope to take the opportunity to solve the problems. EOR is used when primary and secondary recovery cannot recover the rest of the trapped oil after these processes. Chemical slugs are injected to mobilize the trapped crude oil within the pore throats of the reservoir rocks. Enhanced oil recovery is conducted by applying some extrinsic energy on the reservoir pool. This energy can be generated by injecting chemical from outside. Several other methods including application of heat or newer innovative methods such as nano-materials as additive in the injection fluid to improve the sweep and displacement efficiencies are being tried. Therefore novel techniques such as microbes and nano-robots combined with chemical and thermal methods can improve the recovery significantly and may prove to be effective in Indian as well as other older fields under the current crude oil price scenario.

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Email: tkumar2002@yahoo.com