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Contents vii
12. Chemical EOR 141
12.1 Polymer flooding 142
12.1.1 Polymer flooding applicability criteria 146
12.1.2 Polymer flooding completed projects 147
12.1.3 Implementation Technology 149
12.2 Alkaline flooding 150
12.2.1 Alkaline flooding applicability criteria 153
12.2.2 Alkaline flooding completed projects 157
13. Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) 161
13.1 Applicability criteria 165
13.2 Implementation technology 167
13.3 Implemented projects 168
Further reading 169
14. Forefront EOR 171
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
15. EOR modeling 181
15.1 Geological modeling 182
15.2 Hydrodynamic modeling 187
15.3 Hydrodynamic modeling for EOR 188
16. EOR on site implementation 191
16.1 Screening evaluation 191
16.2 Phase behavior and core analysis 192
16.2.1 Physicochemical properties of reservoir fluids 192
16.2.2 Core analysis 195
16.3 EOR implementation 195
16.4 Technology readiness level (TRL) 197
Further reading 201
17. EOR economics 203
Index 205
