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  1. NIGER DELTA OIL PRODUCTION, RESERVES, FIELD SIZES ASSESSED

    Magazine Articles

    Mon, 13 Nov 1995

    The potential of secondary and tertiary recovery is great. Secondary recovery ..... considerations are likely to restrict tertiary recovery techniques to selected larger ..... Both additional reserves from tertiary recovery in larger fields and the small

  2. TAX CREDIT, BILLS MAY EXPAND EOR OPPORTUNITIES IN U.S.

    Magazine Articles

    Mon, 24 Feb 1992

    Involving the use of one or more tertiary recovery methods that "can reasonably ..... the application of a qualified tertiary recovery method "is expected to result ..... affected were previously subject to tertiary recovery method but the prior method

  3. Watching Government: Where federal R&D focuses

    Magazine Articles

    Mon, 15 Aug 2011

    addition to $624,000 from RPSEA) could lead to a possible game-changing polymeric surfactants technology for tertiary recovery in the Illinois basin. A multibillion barrel residual oil resource is stranded there because conventional EOR is

  4. Special Report: Completion Technologies: Combined miscible drive enhances Pleito Creek oil production

    Magazine Articles

    Mon, 6 Jun 2011

    d and only 6% of the original 39 million bbl of oil in place had been recovered. NiMin evaluated secondary and tertiary recovery methods for implementation at Pleito Creek. Table 1 summarizes the methods that were considered and the primary

  5. Watching Government: Where federal R&D focuses

    Magazine Articles

    Mon, 15 Aug 2011

    addition to $624,000 from RPSEA) could lead to a possible game-changing polymeric surfactants technology for tertiary recovery in the Illinois basin. A multibillion barrel residual oil resource is stranded there because conventional EOR is

  6. California steam EOR produces less; other EOR continues

    Magazine Articles

    Mon, 15 Apr 2002

    production stage, after the primary depletion stage, or after the secondary production stage, which also is known as tertiary recovery . The most common projects are: Steam injection in heavy oil fields. Carbon dioxide floods in lighter oil fields

  7. Production tomography merges geophysics with reservoir engineering

    Magazine Articles

    Mon, 4 Jun 2001

    compartmentalization. Identification of the location and distribution of these barriers is critical to the success of secondary and tertiary recovery efforts. The fractures also contribute to heterogeneity, further complicating the production response. Click here

  8. EOR continues to unlock oil resources

    Magazine Articles

    Mon, 12 Apr 2004

    production stage, after the primary depletion stage, or after the secondary production stage, which also is known as tertiary recovery . Click here to enlarge image Click here to view the Worldwide EOR survey in PDF. The most common injectants include

  9. The capacity imperative

    Magazine Articles

    Mon, 25 Oct 2004

    be required. Nuclear could help considerably, but its stigma in the public's mind is worse than fossil fuel. Tertiary recovery is always going to be expensive. Many of the chemicals required for sophisticated methods to remove large percentages

  10. Method sizes multiphase-flow gathering lines

    Magazine Articles

    Mon, 26 Jul 1999

    and dynamic fluid levels. Additionally, the Aneth example shows how multiphase production gathering can improve tertiary recovery economics. This is becoming an issue of growing importance as North American fields deplete. Texaco`s Aneth Unit