Lake L. Enhanced Oil Recovery

Society of Petroleum Engineers. 2010. 414p.
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is oil recovery by the injection of materials not normally present in the reservoir. This definition covers all modes of oil recovery processes (drive, push-pull, and well treatments) and most oil recovery agents. Enhanced oil recovery technologies are also being used for in-situ extraction of organic pollutants from permeable media. In these applications, the extraction is referred to as cleanup or remediation, and the hydrocarbon as product. Various sections of this text will discuss remediation technologies specifically, although we will mainly discuss petroleum reservoirs. The text will also describe the application of EOR technology to carbon dioxide storage where appropriate.