Formation Damage during Improved Oil Recovery
Fundamentals and Applications

Gives readers tactics on how to solve problems associated with formation damage for conventional and unconventional enhanced oil recovery processes

Bin Yuan (Edited by), David Wood (Edited by)

9780128137826

Paperback, published 2 June 2018

676 pages, 300 illustrations
22.9 x 15.1 x 4.1 cm, 1.09 kg

Formation Damage during Improved Oil Recovery: Fundamentals and Applications bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and field practice by presenting information on formation damage issues that arise during enhanced oil recovery. Multi-contributed technical chapters include sections on modeling and simulation, lab experiments, field case studies, and newly proposed technologies and methods that are related to formation damage during secondary and tertiary recovery processes in both conventional and unconventional reservoirs. Focusing on both the fundamental theories related to EOR and formation damage, this reference helps engineers formulate integrated and systematic designs for applying EOR processes while also considering formation damage issues.

1. Overview of Formation Damage during Improved and Enhanced Oil Recovery 2. Low-Salinity Water Flooding: from Novel to Mature Technology 3. Formation Damage by Fines Migration: Mathematical and Laboratory Modelling, Field Cases 4. Using Nanofluids to Control Fines Migration in Porous Systems 5. Formation Damage by Inorganic Deposition 6. Formation Damage by Organic Deposition 7. Formation Damage during Chemical Flooding 8. Formation Damage Problems associated with CO2 Flooding 9. Formation Damage by Thermal Methods Applied to Heavy Oil Reservoirs 10. Formation Damage Issues in Unconventional Reservoirs 11. Formation Damage Problems in Offshore and Deepwater Reservoirs 12. Formation Damage Challenges in Geothermal Reservoirs 13. Formation Damage in Coalbed Methane Recovery 14. Special Focus on Produced Water in Oil and Gas Fields: Origin, Management and Re-Injection Practice 15. Integrated Risks Assessment and Management of IOR/EOR projects: A Formation Damage View

Subject Areas: Petroleum technology [THFP], Gas technology [THFG], Energy technology & engineering [TH]