Maximizing Oil Recovery from Cheleken Challenging Sandstone Reservoirs-Hybrid Smartwater NanoPolymer: A Novel Environomic EOR Technique

Principal Investigator
Motiur Rahman
Department
Petroleum Engineering
Focus Area
Hydrocarbon Exploration & Production
Maximizing Oil Recovery from Cheleken Challenging Sandstone Reservoirs-Hybrid Smartwater NanoPolymer: A Novel Environomic EOR Technique

This proposed project aims to answer the call of the regional challenges discussed in RD Petro 2018 to develop Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery technologies through experimental and numerical modeling of various techniques, which are economically viable and efficient for field-scale development ensuring minimal damage to reservoir along with reduction in costs. This is achieved through developing a novel in-house Hybrid Smartwater Nanopolymer (HSWNP) technique that utilize the wettability alteration and preconditioning capability of Smart Water, coupled with a novel “self-adaptive thickening” nanopolymer fluid to address the challenges of candidate field reservoirs. KU, along with external collaborators, Power Environmental Energy Research Institute (PEERI), Lloyd’s Register (LR), and industrial partner Dragon Oil, a subsidiary of Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC), will combine extensive knowledge in nanopolymer designs and smart brine screening/formation, fluid analysis, and real-time resistivity monitoring while core flooding to develop and demonstrate the field application potentials in challenging candidate fields.

Maximizing Oil Recovery from Cheleken Challenging Sandstone Reservoirs-Hybrid Smartwater NanoPolymer: A Novel Environomic EOR Technique