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There have been many books on the topic of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) over the last 100 years. They all, however, focus on how to recover more oil faster, taking a rather myopic approach. The solutions presented all work fantastically in theory and even in the laboratory, but each fails to produce results in the field with long-term success. The petroleum industry is almost resigned to the belief that for an EOR technique to be successful, it must be propped up with public funds or must compromise environmental integrity. In line with modern engineering practices, previous books discuss how existing technologies can be tweaked to accommodate for any shortcomings that just came to light. This book is unlike any other book on the topic of recovery in particular and engineering in general. This groundbreaking volume is a continuation of the authors and his research groups work that started publishing on the subject of global sustainability involving energy and the environment, dating back to early 2000s. Starting with a paradigm shift in engineering that involves a long-term focus, rather than looking for short-term solutions, the methods and theories presented here delve into applying green engineering and zero waste principles to EOR. Historically, EOR has received mixed success, mainly because innovations in these disciplines relied heavily on processed materials, which are both uneconomical and toxic to the environment. This book explains how engineers missed entirely the causes of unsustainability in these technologies due to the prevalence of many myths that are embedded in modern engineering. Once these myths are deconstructed, the appropriate technologies emerge and the merits of them both in terms of economic and environmental benefits become clear. The book reveals how previous practices in EOR can be replaced with their sustainable versions while saving in material costs. A number of innovative technologies are introduced that can render well known technologies, such as steam flood, in situ combustion, chemical flooding, and microbial EOR environmentally sustainable and economically attractive. A triple dividend is received once these technologies are applied in otherwise marginal reservoirs, unconventional plays and even abandoned formations. The overall reserve, which reflects recoverable oil with new technologies, goes up drastically. Further benefits are drawn when processes such as value addition of waste material is performed. Overall this book shows how EOR can be rendered green while increasing the profitability. This is in stark contrast to the past practices that considered environmental integrity as a drain on profitability. This book proves that a paradigm shift can turn a technological disaster into a technological marvel.

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Economically and Environmentally Sustainable Enhanced Oil Recovery

M. R. Islam

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ISBN 978-1-119-47909-3

Cover image: All images supplied by Dreamstime.com; Rainbow Smoke: Nantapong Kittisubsiri | Oil Drop: Amnat Buakeaw | Trees: Christos Georghiou |
Leaves: Nadezda Kostina I Orange Flower Wreath: Darya Smirnova
Cover design by Kris Hackerott

This book is dedicated to the three creative geniuses that I have been blessed to call my children. They are: Elif Hamida Islam, Ali Omar Islam, and Jaan Sulaiman Islam.

M. R. Islam

Preface

But what good will another round of corefloods and recovery curves do?, quipped a Chemical Engineering professor over 3 decades ago. For a graduate student, whose PhD thesis (in Petroleum Engineering) is devoted to enhanced oil recovery in marginal reservoirs, that comment struck me with mixed emotions. My PhD supervisor was someone I would later characterize as academias most impactful petroleum engineering professor. The project that I was working on at the time was well funded by the government and industry consortium (translation: it was anything but a stale academic exercise). Even at its initial phase, the project was proving to be an academic masterpiece (it eventually broke the record for refereed publications for a PhD dissertation at least for that University). Yet, this project was reduced to a set of corefloods and recovery curves.

I had immense respect for the chemical engineering professor (I still do to this date), with whom I had a number of ground-breaking publications (that emerged from classwork), so I couldnt even garner enough courage to confront him or ask for an explanation. Fast forward a 2 decades, I was giving a pep talk to industry and government delegates on sustainable engineering, upon which a mechanical engineering professor turned into a quasi-administrator, with no background in energy research, exclaimed, Why are you focusing so much on society, where is engineering? Thankfully, it was the government partner that quieted down the vociferous colleague, schooling him, I thought sustainability is all about society

Fast forward another decade, I was lecturing on sustainable Enhanced Oil Recovery (the very same topic of this book) when I was ceremonially interrupted, But where is the research in it, Professor Islam? This time it was a physicist-turned materials engineer-turned Third World university administrator. Sadly, there was no government official to quiet him down, and to make it worse, a Third World-trained petroleum engineering professor chimed in, but where does petroleum engineering come in this? Clearly, they were expecting me to show more coreflood results and recovery curves!

Suffice it to say, in the last 3 decades, the engineering world has not moved a needle toward knowledge. Just like 3 decades ago, chemical engineers want you to implement chemicals without research, and demand that you just take their word for it. Materials engineers want you to focus on how to turn the valve on the well head, trusting them with the material engineering part. Sadly, petroleum engineers are then convinced that their research focus should include only yet another coreflood test and another way to do the material balance Type-curve fitting. University administrators meanwhile are strictly focused on keeping engineers caged within their puny research domain, tightly focussed on drilling a copious number of holes through the thinnest part of the research plank.

Today, I am no longer the wide-eyed graduate student wondering about the meaning of what professors have to say. It has been well over a decade that I pointedly asked how deep is the collective ignorance of the enlightened academia? Ignorance as I figured within years of stepping into academic life doesnt frighten me, it emboldens my resolve to write more. I decided to write a book on enhanced oil recovery that doesnt teach another way to measure the minimum miscibility pressure a phenomenon that doesnt occur in the field. Upon hearing this, my former graduate student (currently a university professor) said with utter desperation, But, Dr. Islam, thats the only thing we teach in EOR classes? The state of academia is not strong not even close. It is no surprise that this book is over 700 pages. It doesnt shy away from calling out the hollowness of the incessant theories and academic mumbo jumbo that produced storm in teacups. Of course, criticism is easy but one must answer the question, where is the beef? For every question raised, a comprehensive solution is given after demonstrating how modern-day researchers have failed and why they have failed. The book makes no apology for making a full disclosure of what true sustainability should be a far cry from the theme that has been shoved down the throat of the general public in the name of: sustainability should come with a price. The book shows, true sustainability is free as in sunlight. Why should that surprise anyone? Didnt we know best water (rain), best air (breeze), best cleanser (clay), best food ingredient (carbon dioxide), best energy (sunlight) they are all free?

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