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Building on the comprehensive, fundamental mechanisms and mathematical computations detailed in the First Edition, the new Second Edition of Enhanced Oil Recovery presents the latest insights into the applications of EOR processes, including
-Field-scale thermal-recovery such as steam-assisted gravity drainage and cyclic steam stimulation
-Field-scale polymer flooding including horizontal wells
-Field-scale miscible-displacement processes such as CO2 miscible flooding
-Laboratory-scale chemical flooding in the development and testing of surfactant formulations
An invaluable tool for petroleum engineering students, Enhanced Oil Recovery also serves as an important resource for those practicing oil recovery in the field or engaged in the design and operation of commercial projects involving enhanced-or improved-oil-recovery processes. A prior understanding of basic petrophysics, fluid properties, and material balance is recommended.
About the author
G. Paul Willhite is the Ross H. Forney Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas. He has been a member of the faculty since 1969, serving as chair of the department from 1988 to 1996 and interim chair from 2003 to 2004. In 1974, he cofounded the Tertiary Oil Recovery Project and served as codirector from 1974 to 2009. Before joining the faculty, he worked in the Production Research Division of Continental Oil Company in Ponca City, Oklahoma. Willhite holds a BS degree from Iowa State University and a PhD degree from Northwestern University, both in chemical engineering. He is the author of the SPE textbook Waterflooding and coauthor of the SPE textbook Enhanced Oil Recovery. Willhite is a Distinguished Member of SPE; he received the Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty in 1981, the Lester C. Uren Award in 1986, and the John Franklin Carll Award in 2001. He also received the IOR Pioneer Award at the 2004 SPE/DOE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium. Willhite was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.
