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Forefront EOR
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Abstract

Many new technologies are developed for the Enhanced Oil Recovery. Newcomers to the
field are at the different stages of applicability, complexity and technical readiness level.
Before considering any of them it is the best to understand well local circumstances,
resource availability of all sorts and the reservoir itself. There are big reserves of heavy
oil worldwide and development of Enhanced Oil extraction for them became one of the
main priorities for EOR techniques.

Chapter Outline

14.1 Low salinity water injection 172
14.2 Electrical thermal EOR 174
14.3 Advanced polymer systems 175
14.4 Disperse systems 176
14.5 High pressure air injection (HPAI) 177
14.6 Renewable energy EOR 177
14.7 Heavy oil fields 178
14.8 Combined methods 178

Many new technologies are developed for the Enhanced Oil Recovery.
Newcomers to the field are at the different stages of applicability, complexity and
technical readiness level. Before considering any of them it is the best to under-
stand well local circumstances, resource availability of all sorts and the reservoir
itself. There are big reserves of heavy oil worldwide and development of
Enhanced Oil extraction for them became one of the main priorities for EOR
techniques.
We will start with a Low salinity water injection, which in a way has been used
for a while but only now is getting better understanding, broader development and
the community appreciation. The advance of other techniques will greatly depend
on their application robustness, state of the economy and political will.

Primer on Enhanced Oil Recovery. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-817632-0.00014-1
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