Enhanced Oil Recovery: An Update Review

Vladimir Alvarado and Eduardo Manrique
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Vladimir Alvarado: Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Wyoming, Department 3295, 1000 E. University Ave, Laramie, WY, USA
Eduardo Manrique: TIORCO (NALCO & STEPAN Company), 2452 Trenton Way, Suite M, Denver, CO 80231, USA

Energies, 2010, vol. 3, issue 9, 1-47

Abstract: With the decline in oil discoveries during the last decades it is believed that EOR technologies will play a key role to meet the energy demand in years to come. This paper presents a comprehensive review of EOR status and opportunities to increase final recovery factors in reservoirs ranging from extra heavy oil to gas condensate. Specifically, the paper discusses EOR status and opportunities organized by reservoir lithology (sandstone and carbonates formations and turbiditic reservoirs to a lesser extent) and offshore and onshore fields. Risk and rewards of EOR methods including growing trends in recent years such as CO 2 injection, high pressure air injection (HPAI) and chemical flooding are addressed including a brief overview of CO 2 -EOR project economics.

Keywords: enhanced oil recovery; EOR; reservoir lithology; CO 2; steam injection; air injection; chemical flooding (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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