Advances in Improving Oil Recovery in Low-Permeability Hydrocarbon Resources
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 18397
Special Issue Editors
Interests: imbibition and capillary action in ideal and natural materials; multiphase flow in porous/fractured media; enhanced oil recovery; CCUS; reservoirs numerical simulation
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Interests: chemical EOR; machine learning; CO2-EOR; unconventional reservoirs
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Interests: enhanced oil recovery; CCUS; spontaneous imbibition; mathematical modeling; numerical simulation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
At present, about 38% of the world's oil and gas are low-grade resources, mainly of low permeability, and more than 70% of China's new proven reserves are located in low-permeability reservoirs, including ultra-low-permeability reservoirs, tight reservoirs, and shale. Low-permeability reservoirs are generally characterized by low pore size, low permeability, and strong heterogeneity. The development process generally faces the problems of difficulty in energy replenishment and the limited effect of conventional secondary oil recovery methods. How to develop such oil and gas resources economically and effectively has been an important topic in the oil and gas industry. Surfactants, nanomaterials, carbon dioxide, and other new EOR media are continually used as recovery enhancement materials, and these recovery enhancement methods show great potential to solve specific problems. In addition, artificial fracturing is an efficient means of increasing seepage capacity, but water channeling through fracture systems is a threat to its economical application. Tackling the channeling problem is also an important issue during the development of such hydrocarbon resources.
This Special Issue aims to collect recent advances in new materials, new methods, and new field applications for improved oil recovery in low-permeability resources.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- The characterization of tight or shale formation;
- Nonlinear seepage theory and simulation method;
- Novel enhanced oil recovery method;
- Multi-scale fracture system modeling;
- The treatment of water or gas channeling.
Dr. Qingbang Meng
Dr. Bin Liang
Dr. Zhan Meng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ultra-low-permeability
- EOR
- fracture modeling
- channeling problem
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