Enhanced Oil Recovery ─ Field Planning and Development Strategies

Enhanced Oil Recovery: Field Planning and Development Strategies proposes a workflow for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) evaluations that account for different volumes and quality of information. This flexible workflow has been successfully applied to oil property evaluations and EOR feasibility studies in many oil reservoirs. The methodology associated with the workflow relies on traditional (look-up tables, XY correlations, etc.) and more advanced screening methods (e.g., data mining for analog reservoir search and geology indicators), emphasizing identification of analog to support decision making. The screening phase is combined with analytical or simplified numerical simulations to estimate full-field performance by using data-driven reservoir segmentation procedures.

In addition, this book illustrates the EOR decision-making workflow using field case examples from Asia, Canada, Mexico, South America, and the United States. Brief, but rigorous, this book expertly demonstrates the advantages of a flexible workflow that can be adapted to the volume and quality of information available. With it, engineers will be able to discover and implement the latest strategies and technologies to fully maximize recovery from operating oil and gas fields by concentrating on projects and/or properties with the highest expected economic value