Fine Formation During Brine-Crude Oil-Calcite Interaction in Smart Water Enhanced Oil Recovery for Caspian Carbonates

Krishna Hara Chakravarty, Philip Loldrup Fosbøl, Kaj Thomsen

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Abstract

Modified sea water has been shown to affect the oil recovery fraction considerably during secondary and tertiary waterfloods. Available soluble potential ions (i.e. Ca2+, Mg2+ & SO42-) in the interacting waterflood (ITW) are suggested to play a key role in increasing the displacement efficiency of oil. In previous studies, compositions of injected waterfloods (IJW) have been correlated to the observed oil recovery. This study highlights differences between IJW and ITW for different studies reported in literature.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the SPE Annual Caspian Technical Conference & Exhibition
Number of pages13
PublisherSociety of Petroleum Engineers
Publication date2015
Article numberSPE-177379-MS
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-61399-435-1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
EventSPE Annual Caspian Technical Conference & Exhibition - Baku, Azerbaijan
Duration: 4 Nov 20156 Nov 2015

Conference

ConferenceSPE Annual Caspian Technical Conference & Exhibition
Country/TerritoryAzerbaijan
CityBaku
Period04/11/201506/11/2015

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