Formation Damage during Improved Oil Recovery

Formation Damage during Improved Oil Recovery: Fundamentals and Applications bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and field practice by presenting information on formation damage issues that arise during enhanced oil recovery. Multi-contributed technical chapters include sections on modeling and simulation, lab experiments, field case studies, and newly proposed technologies and methods that are related to formation damage during secondary and tertiary recovery processes in both conventional and unconventional reservoirs. Focusing on both the fundamental theories related to EOR and formation damage, this reference helps engineers formulate integrated and systematic designs for applying EOR processes while also considering formation damage issues.

• Presents the first complete reference addressing formation damage as a result of enhanced oil recovery
• Provides the mechanisms for formation damage issues that are coupled with EOR
• Suggests appropriate preventative actions or responses
• Delivers a structured approach on how to understand the fundamental theories, practical challenges and solutions

Reservoir engineers; production engineers; petroleum engineers; researchers in enhanced oil recovery; graduate level-petroleum engineering students

1. Overview of Formation Damage during Improved and Enhanced Oil Recovery
Bin Yuan, and David A. Wood
2. Low-Salinity Water Flooding: from Novel to Mature Technology
David A. Wood, and Bin Yuan
3. Formation Damage by Fines Migration: Mathematical and Laboratory Modelling, Field Cases
Thomas Russell, Larissa B. Chequer, Sara Borazjani, Zhengjiang You, Abbas Zeinijahromi, and Pavel Bedrikovetsky
4. Using Nanofluids to Control Fines Migration in Porous Systems
Bin Yuan, and Rouzbeh Ghanbarnezhad Moghanloo
5. Formation Damage by Inorganic Deposition
Xingru Wu
6. Formation Damage by Organic Deposition
Rouzbeh Ghanbarnezhad Moghanloo, Davud Davudov, and Emmanuel Akita
7. Formation Damage during Chemical Flooding
Caili Dai
8. Formation Damage Problems associated with CO2 Flooding
Xuebing Fu, Andrew Finley, and Steven Carpenter
9. Formation Damage by Thermal Methods Applied to Heavy Oil Reservoirs
Jiaming Zhang, and Zhangxing Chen
10. Formation Damage Issues in Unconventional Reservoirs
Davud Davudov, Rouzbeh Ghanbarnezhad Moghanloo, and Bin Yuan
11. Formation Damage Problems in Offshore and Deepwater Reservoirs
Xingru Wu
12. Formation Damage Challenges in Geothermal Reservoirs
Zhenjiang You, Alexander Badalyan, Yulong Yang, and Pavel Bedrikovetsky
13. Formation Damage in Coalbed Methane Recovery
Jack C. Pashin, S. P. Pradhan, and Vikram Vishal
14. Special Focus on Produced Water in Oil and Gas Fields: Origin, Management and Re-Injection Practice
Yu Liang, Yang Ning, Lulu Liao, and Bin Yuan
15. Integrated Risks Assessment and Management of IOR/EOR projects: A Formation Damage View
David Wood, and Bin Yuan