Current Advances and Future Trend in Enhanced Oil Recovery
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 1388
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gas flooding; chemical flooding; heavy oil/shale oil/tight oil recovery
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Interests: EOR; CCUS; chemical flooding; heavy oil
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Interests: low permeability; tight oil CO2 injection development; profile control and water plugging; chemical flooding
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Special Issue Information
Due the continuous development of conventional oil reservoirs, the difficulty of stabilizing production has increased in recent years; meanwhile, the development of unconventional oil reservoirs is facing technical challenges, and the demand for new theories, methods and technologies that facilitate the development of oilfields and improve the recovery rate is growing. In view of this situation and the new problems and challenges faced in the development ofoilfields, after continuous scientific and technological investment and innovative research, many new mechanisms, new means and new methods of oilfield development have emerged, and some of them have moved out of the laboratory and been tested in the field; some of these have achieved good preliminary results. The scope of this Special Issue includes recent advances in fundamental research on in situ sampling and the non-destructive testing of subsurface rock/fluid, micro- and nano-scale flow mechanisms and physical simulation, reservoir modeling and numerical simulation, as well as research on new methods for enhancing the recovery rate of waterflooding, chemical flooding, gas flooding, thermal and unconventional reservoir development; this is in terms of the oil displacement mechanism, technological routes, oil displacement agents, and key technologies. In response to the demand for enhanced recovery technology, this Special Issue will analyze the problems and deficiencies associated with various technologies, and looks forward to receiving studies on various methods that provide a reference for future research.
Dr. Long Xu
Dr. Hailong Zhao
Dr. Mingchen Ding
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- oilfield development
- enhanced recovery
- conventional reservoirs
- unconventional reservoirs
- improved water drive
- chemical drive
- research progress
- development outlook
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