TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing EOR strategies for application in Brazilian pre-salt reservoirs
AU - Neves Junior, Athayde
AU - Queiroz, Gregório Nepomuceno
AU - Godoy, Mateus Gomes
AU - Cardoso, Verônica da Silva
AU - Cedrola, Sabrina Martins Lage
AU - Mansoldo, Felipe Raposo Passos
AU - Firpo, Rhayssa Marca
AU - Gomes Paiva, Larissa Mendonça
AU - Sohrabi, Mehran
AU - Vermelho, Alane Beatriz
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was carried out in association with the ongoing R&D project registered as ANP 20700-1, “Desenvolvimento de biopolímeros para aplicação em recuperação avançada de petróleo” ( Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)/ Shell Brasil /ANP) – Development of biopolymers for EOR application, sponsored by Shell Brasil under the ANP R&D levy as “Compromisso de Investimentos com Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento”. This project is carried out in partnership with Petrobras. This work was financed in part by the postgraduate program of the Paulo de Góes Institute of Microbiology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), through the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento Pessoal de Nível Superior ( CAPES ), [grant number 001 ], and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (MCTI- CNPq , Universal 14/2015 ). Heriot-watt University also offered support as partnerships and care for the co-authors.
Funding Information:
This research was carried out in association with the ongoing R&D project registered as ANP 20700-1, “Desenvolvimento de biopolímeros para aplicação em recuperação avançada de petróleo” (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)/Shell Brasil/ANP) – Development of biopolymers for EOR application, sponsored by Shell Brasil under the ANP R&D levy as “Compromisso de Investimentos com Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento”. This project is carried out in partnership with Petrobras. This work was financed in part by the postgraduate program of the Paulo de Góes Institute of Microbiology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), through the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), [grant number 001], and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (MCTI-CNPq, Universal 14/2015). Heriot-watt University also offered support as partnerships and care for the co-authors.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/4
Y1 - 2023/4
N2 - Petroleum is a fossil energy source massively used in our society, even with the rise of renewable sources. Therefore, oil production demand is predicted to increase in future years to attend population needs. On contrary with this scenario, the discovery of new oil reservoirs is scarce and new technologies have been developed to improve oil recovery from existing reservoirs. These technologies referred to tertiary oil recovery or Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) methods, which consist of techniques used to alter either reservoir or oil characteristics on site to recover an additional content of petroleum. Conventional EOR methods are mainly classified as chemical, gas, and thermal methods, but newer strategies have been developed. EOR methods are selected depending on appropriate suitability of reservoirs characteristics, taking into consideration for example high salinity and temperature, permeability, difficult localization, and so on. In Brazil, pre-salt reserve discovery shed light on the potential of this area in the country, now pointed to be one of the world's biggest oil and gas producers. These reservoirs are located offshore, under a deep salt layer, challenging engineers to prospect oil and gas in those conditions. With these circumstances, the present work is a literature review regarding EOR methods and their suitability for application in Brazilian pre-salt reservoirs.
AB - Petroleum is a fossil energy source massively used in our society, even with the rise of renewable sources. Therefore, oil production demand is predicted to increase in future years to attend population needs. On contrary with this scenario, the discovery of new oil reservoirs is scarce and new technologies have been developed to improve oil recovery from existing reservoirs. These technologies referred to tertiary oil recovery or Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) methods, which consist of techniques used to alter either reservoir or oil characteristics on site to recover an additional content of petroleum. Conventional EOR methods are mainly classified as chemical, gas, and thermal methods, but newer strategies have been developed. EOR methods are selected depending on appropriate suitability of reservoirs characteristics, taking into consideration for example high salinity and temperature, permeability, difficult localization, and so on. In Brazil, pre-salt reserve discovery shed light on the potential of this area in the country, now pointed to be one of the world's biggest oil and gas producers. These reservoirs are located offshore, under a deep salt layer, challenging engineers to prospect oil and gas in those conditions. With these circumstances, the present work is a literature review regarding EOR methods and their suitability for application in Brazilian pre-salt reservoirs.
KW - Chemical EOR
KW - EOR
KW - Gas EOR
KW - Microbial EOR
KW - Pre-salt reservoirs
KW - Thermal EOR
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85160015973&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.geoen.2023.211508
DO - 10.1016/j.geoen.2023.211508
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85160015973
SN - 2949-8929
VL - 223
JO - Geoenergy Science and Engineering
JF - Geoenergy Science and Engineering
M1 - 211508
ER -
