Low-Energy Processes for Unconventional Oil Recovery

Mohammad Reza Fassihi, Anthony R. Kovscek

• Publisher: Society of Petroleum Engineers
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9781613994757
• Edition: 0

Low-Energy Processes for Unconventional Oil Recoveryfills a gap in oil and gas literature. Today, in our globalized society, the oil industry has to demonstrate how oil recovery can be done responsibly over the life-cycle of the project, clearly articulating energy efficiency as well as limiting CO2and environmental footprints of the chosen recovery processes.The authors bring together their complementing expertise to provide the reader with an in-depth discussion of a range of alternative recovery techniques. Most recovery methods included are focused on heavy oil recovery, but some have applications in light oil reservoirs as well. With the recent industry drive and focus to recover hydrocarbons from tight rock and shale resources, a chapter has also been devoted to shale oil recovery.

Table of contents

• Cover 
• Title Page
• Copyright
• About the authors
• Contents 
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The Challenges of Unconventional Oil Recovery
• Chapter 2: Unconventional Oil Recovery Methods
• Chapter 3: Fluid and Rock Properties
• Chapter 4: Cold Heavy-Oil Production
• Chapter 5: Cold Enhanced Recovery
• Chapter 6: Enhanced Steam Injection
• Chapter 7: Enhanced Air Injection
• Chapter 8: Alternative Sources for Heating Reservoirs
• Chapter 9: Challenges in Reservoir Simulation of Unconventional Technologies
• Chapter 10: Facilities and Operations
• Chapter 11: Shale Oil Recovery
• Nomenclature
• References
• Appendix A: Calculation of Steam Distillation Yield
• Appendix B: Example Problems
• Appendix C: Reservoir Modeling Checklist
• Index