International Journal of Research in Engineering and Applied Sciences
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 8

Development of an ideal Thermo-Chemical method of EOR: Case Study of a portion of Upper Assam Basin

  • Author:
  • Prasenjit Talukdar1, Nitin Lahkar2
  • Total Page Count: 12
  • Page Number: 21 to 32

1Assistant Professor, Department of Petroleum Engineering, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh-786004, Assam, India

2M. Tech. Student, Department of Petroleum Technology, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh-786004, Assam, India

Online published on 25 December, 2015.

Abstract

The need for production by Enhanced Oil Recovery has increased drastically over the past two decades because of the constantly increasing need of Hydrocarbons and decline in the discovery of new oil and gas producing horizons. This paper deals with development of an ideal thermo chemical method of Enhanced Oil Recovery in the mature and depleting Naharkatiya Oilfield by experimental investigation of Reservoir rock and fluid samples and different phenomena occurring in the Petroleum Reservoir with TGA, XRD, SEM, PVT Analysis. In this paper the authors have designed a novel combination strategy taking into consideration all the techno-economic feasibilities and Reservoir Characteristics to develop the best method of EOR which can be employed by the Industry not only in Naharkatiya but also in analogous fields all over the world having the same Rock and fluid properties.

Keywords

EOR, Thermo-Chemical Method, Naharkatiya Oilfield, Mobility Ratio, Interfacial Tension, Industrial Feasibility