Conventional versus electrical enhanced oil recovery: a review

Rehman, Muhammad Mohsin; Meribout, Mahmoud

doi:10.1007/s13202-012-0035-9

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“…Electrical heating requires electricity sources, but this method can be applied for every situation and can be efficiently transferring heat for the entire reservoir with a big volume that reservoir depth can be neglected [49], [50]. The aim of EEOR is to increase mobility by reducing the viscosity that can flow easily to the production well because electrical energy in the reservoir can raise the temperature and creates vibrations of on hydrocarbon molecules [2], [51].…”

Section: Past and Current Of Electrical Heatingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Low-frequency electric called ohmic or joule heating is a method to heat the reservoir by flowing electrical current through the formation [2], [80], [81]. Ohmic occurs when low-frequency from AC current flows to the reservoir and the electrical heating is converted to heat energy [21].…”

Section: Low Frequency Electric Resistive / Ohmicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Because the temperature rises, it can reduce oil viscosity and makes it easier for solid materials to flow. These effects can help in sweeping oil out of the formation when there are media that can help to drive oil such as gravity drainage because the basic process of electrical heating is to increase the mobility of the oil by reducing oil's viscosity, and then the oil can flow easily to the production well [2].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Electrical Heating for Heavy Oil: Past, Current, and Future Prospect

Hasibuan¹,

Regina²,

Wahyu³

et al. 2020

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This paper presents a review of the electrical heating method for heavy oil recovery based on past, current, and future prospects of electrical heating. Heavy oil is one of the potential crude oil used as a link to reduce the crisis of light oil used today. The obstacle of heavy oil is a high viscosity and density in which thermal injection is a method for heavy oil recovery, but it results in economic and environmental issues. Electrical heating is one of the thermal methods by transferring heat into the reservoir. The basic process of electrical heating is to increase the mobility of the oil. Because the temperature rises, it can reduce oil viscosity and makes it easier for heavy oil to flow. The past and current developments have been carried out to fill up the gap of electrical heating projects. The future prospects must meet energy efficiency, and the excessive heat will damage formation that must be tackled in the future prospect. the works adopt several electrical heating projects and applications in the world where the works give a brief future prospect of electrical heating.

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Section: Past and Current Of Electrical Heatingmentioning

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Section: Low Frequency Electric Resistive / Ohmicmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Electrical Heating for Heavy Oil: Past, Current, and Future Prospect

Hasibuan¹,

Regina²,

Wahyu³

et al. 2020

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“…Acid injection along with the application of Electrokinetics is an emerging technology which results in yielding higher reserves with a greater enhancement in permeability in lab scales [27]. EK Low-concentration acidizing IOR (EK LCA-IOR) hypothesis is developed that drives the acid deeper into the reservoir and reduces the adsorption capacity on the reservoir rock surface along with the following additional merits [28][29] Mineral surfaces usually have a negative net surface charge, resulting in the formation of the double layer or what is known as the Debye layer.…”

Section: Ek Low-concentration Acid Ior (Ek Lca-ior)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Electrokinetic Driven Low-Concentration Acid Improved Oil Recovery in Abu Dhabi Tight Carbonate Reservoirs

Ansari¹,

Haroun²,

Rahman³

et al. 2015

Electrochimica Acta

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“…Field pilots in the 80's and 90's showed the feasibility of RF-heating of heavy oil formations [11]- [15]. In 2012, a consortium in Alberta, known as ESEIEH [17] and [18], reported a successful field test verifying the ability of RF energy to generate and distribute heat in an oilsands formation, which made the RF-thermal recovery more attractive from economical and environmental perspective.…”

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Directional RF Heating for Heavy Oil Recovery Using Antenna Array Beam-Forming

Saeedfar

Lawton

Osadetz

2016

Day 2 Wed, June 08, 2016

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Conventional steam injection processes for thermal heavy oil recovery are generally limited to relatively shallow, thick, permeable, and homogenous reservoirs. An alternative thermal recovery process is to use electromagnetic (EM) energy to generate heat. Radio frequency heating is one type of EM heating, which is based on wave propagation phenomenon and uses high frequency EM sources. Due to these characteristics, RF heating can provide a controllability aspect of the thermal process by which heating pattern can be steered toward an area of insert and being turned away from a particular region. This can be achieved by combining the EM fileds of multiple RF sources (antenna) in an array configuration.Although EM heating for heavy oil recovery is not a new idea, a commercial application still requires detailed modeling and a more quantitative analysis due to the complexity of the multiphysics process involved. In this paper, we first review the physics of EM heating of a subsurface formation followed by providing closed form correlation models of previously introduced data on electrical properties of Athabasca oilsands. We then revisit some of the analytical models of RF heating mechanism proposed in the past by evaluating the effect of far-field approximation on the accuracy of RF power deposit calculations. Important considerations for antennas being employed for RF heating applications such as near-field criterion and the effectiveness of bare versus insulated antenna will be discussed afterward. Finally, with few examples using analytical modeling, we provide a proof of concept for the method of using an antenna array for directing the RF-thermal pattern in an oilsand formation.

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Conventional versus electrical enhanced oil recovery: a review

Cited by 34 publications

References 28 publications

Electrical Heating for Heavy Oil: Past, Current, and Future Prospect

Electrical Heating for Heavy Oil: Past, Current, and Future Prospect

Electrokinetic Driven Low-Concentration Acid Improved Oil Recovery in Abu Dhabi Tight Carbonate Reservoirs

Directional RF Heating for Heavy Oil Recovery Using Antenna Array Beam-Forming

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