Acoustic and Vibrational Enhanced Oil Recovery

ACOUSTIC AND VIBRATIONAL ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY
 
Oil and gas is still a major energy source all over the world, and techniques like these, which are more environmentally friendly and inexpensive than many previous development and production technologies, are important for making fossil fuels more sustainable and less hazardous to the environment.
 
Based on research they did in the 1970s in Russia and the United States, the authors discovered that oil rate production increased noticeably several days after the occurrence of an earthquake when the epicenter of the earthquake was located in the vicinity of the oil producing field. The increase in oil flow remained higher for a considerable period of time, and it led to a decade-long study both in the Russia and the US, which gradually focused on the use of acoustic/vibrational energy for enhanced oil recovery after reservoirs waterflooded. In the 1980s, they noticed in soil remediation studies that sonic energy applied to soil increases the rate of hydrocarbon removal and decreases the percentage of residual hydrocarbons. In the past several decades, the use of various seismic vibration techniques have been used in various countries and have resulted in incremental oil production.
 
This outstanding new volume validates results of vibro-stimulation tests for enhanced oil recovery, using powerful surface-based vibro-seismic sources. It proves that the rate of displacement of oil by water increases and the percentage of nonrecoverable residual oil decreases if vibro-energy is applied to the porous medium containing oil.
 
Audience:
 
Petroleum Engineers, Chemical Engineers, Earthquake and Energy engineers, Environmental Engineers, Geotechnical Engineers, Mining and Geological Engineers, Sustainability Engineers, Physicists, Chemists, Geologists, and other professionals working in this field

List of contents

List of Contributors xiii
 
1 Introduction 1
 
1.1 Origin and Migration of Oil 5
 
1.1.1 Seismicity 6
 
1.1.2 Electrokinetics 7
 
1.1.3 Earth Tides 9
 
1.1.4 Compaction 9
 
1.1.5 Migration in a Gaseous Form 10
 
1.2 Seismic Vibration Techniques 11
 
1.2.1 Producing Well Experiments 11
 
1.2.2 Mechanisms of Interaction of Fluid Flow With the Vibro-Energy in Porous Media 12
 
References and Bibliography 13
 
2 Wave Spreading Patterns in the Porous Media 19
 
2.1 Spread of Vibration in Reservoir 19
 
2.2 Effect on the Wave Spread in the Oil Accumulations by the Geologic-Geophysical Conditions 26
 
2.3 Wave Spreading From the Vibrating Surface of the Reservoir Matrix Into the Saturated Medium 30
 
2.4 Excitation of Vibration in Oil Reservoirs 42
 
References and Bibliography 51
 
3 Directional Displacement of a Dispersed Phase 55
 
3.1 Simplest Models of the Vibrational Directional Displacement 55
 
3.2 Physical Mechanisms and Major Types of Asymmetry Causing Vibratory Displacement 61
 
3.3 Directed Motion of the Dispersed Phase in Vibrating Pore Channels 69
 
3.4 Directional Motion of the Vibrating Dispersed Phase in Pore Channels 82
 
References 87
 
4 Formation Damage Control and Cement Sheath Stability 89
 
4.1 Status of the Reservoir 89
 
4.2 Vibration Effect on the Reservoir's Heat Properties 95
 
4.3 Decolmatation of the Near-Bottomhole Zone in the Vibration Field 104
 
4.4 Cement Sheath Stability Around a Well in the Vibration Field 113
 
References and Bibliography 118
 
5 Effect of Vibration on Improving Oil Yield and Various Tertiary Recovery Technologies 123
 
5.1 Major Causes of Incomplete Oil Recovery From the Subsurface 123
 
5.1.1 Oil Displacement by Miscible Hydrocarbons 128
 
5.1.2 Oil Displacement by a High-Pressure Dry Gas 129
 
5.1.3 Oil Displacement by an Enriched Gas 130
 
5.1.4 Oils Displacement by Liquefied Petroleum Gas 131
 
5.1.5 Oil Displacement With Carbon Dioxide 132
 
5.1.6 Oil Displacement by Polymer Solutions 133
 
5.1.7 Oil Displacement by Micellar Solutions 135
 
5.1.8 Thermal Methods 138
 
5.1.9 The Vibroseismic Method 148
 
5.2 A Study of the Residual Formation Pressure in the Vibration Field 150
 
5.3 A Study of the Oil Capillary Displacement in the Vibration Field 163
 
5.4 Studies of the Oil and Water Gravity Flow in the Vibration Field 168
 
5.4.1 Absolute Permeability Effect 170
 
5.4.2 An Effect of Oil Viscosity 172
 
5.4.3 The Capillary Pressure Effect 173
 
5.4.4 The Oil and Water Phase Permeability Effect 173
 
References 179
 
6 Vibration Effect on Properties of Saturating Phases in a Reservoir 181
 
6.1 Changes in Interfacial Tensions and Rheological Parameters 181
 
6.1.1 A Newtonian Liquid 182
 
6.1.2 A Viscoplastic Liquid 182
 
6.2 Permeability Changes 186
 
6.2.1 A Single-Phase Flow 186
 
6.2.2 Two-Phase Flow 189
 
6.2.3 Three-Phase Flow 200
 
6.3 Capillary Pressure Changes 201
 
6.4 Interformational Oil Degassing and a Decline in the Formation Water Saturation 203
 
References 212
 
7 Energy Criteria 215
 
7.1 Parameters of Oscillatory Treatment and Conditions for Manifestation of Useful Effects in Saturated Geological Media 217
 
7.2 Wavelike Nature of the Oil-Saturated Geological Media Stress-Energy Exchange. Elastic Oscillations as an Energy Exchange Indicator and Regulator 220
 
7.2.1 Manifesta

About the author

George V. Chilingar, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of petroleum, civil and environmental engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in petroleum engineering, and PhD in Geology at the University of Southern California. Professor Chilingar is Academician, USC International Ambassador, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, founder and past President of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences USA Branch, Honorary Professor of Gubkin University, Russia, and Honorary Consul of Honduras in Los Angeles, CA. In 2021, Professor Chilingar was given the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Honorary Membership award in Dubai for outstanding service to SPE and distinguished scientific and engineering achievements. The results of his investigation are presented in over 500 research articles and 73 books in the fields of petroleum and environmental engineering and petroleum geology.
Kazem Majid Sadeghi, PhD, has a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), a Master of Science in environmental engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), an Engineer Degree in Civil Engineering USC, and PhD in geography from UCSB. Professor Sadeghi has been researching and teaching for many years at UCSB and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He has over 30 years of civil and environmental engineering and consulting experience, including hazardous waste management, pollution prevention assessments, design of industrial wastewater pretreatment facilities and gas collection/treatment systems, treatment of carbonaceous materials, soil remediation, and enhanced oil recovery. Oleg Leonidovich Kuznetsov, Grand PhD in Engineering, is a graduate from Moscow Geological-Prospecting Institute. Upon graduation he worked at the Institute of Geology and Mining of Fossil Fuels of the Academy of Sciences and All-Union Institute of Nuclear Geophysics and Geochemistry. He worked in the All-Russia Institute of Geosystem and is a professor at M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. In addition, he is a professor at Dubna State University working on research development and teaching. Professor Kuznetsov is President of Russia's Academy of Natural Sciences. He is the author of a number of papers and books on applied geophysical technology and several monographs.

Summary

ACOUSTIC AND VIBRATIONAL ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY

Oil and gas is still a major energy source all over the world, and techniques like these, which are more environmentally friendly and inexpensive than many previous development and production technologies, are important for making fossil fuels more sustainable and less hazardous to the environment.

Based on research they did in the 1970s in Russia and the United States, the authors discovered that oil rate production increased noticeably several days after the occurrence of an earthquake when the epicenter of the earthquake was located in the vicinity of the oil producing field. The increase in oil flow remained higher for a considerable period of time, and it led to a decade-long study both in the Russia and the US, which gradually focused on the use of acoustic/vibrational energy for enhanced oil recovery after reservoirs waterflooded. In the 1980s, they noticed in soil remediation studies that sonic energy applied to soil increases the rate of hydrocarbon removal and decreases the percentage of residual hydrocarbons. In the past several decades, the use of various seismic vibration techniques have been used in various countries and have resulted in incremental oil production.

This outstanding new volume validates results of vibro-stimulation tests for enhanced oil recovery, using powerful surface-based vibro-seismic sources. It proves that the rate of displacement of oil by water increases and the percentage of nonrecoverable residual oil decreases if vibro-energy is applied to the porous medium containing oil.

Audience:

Petroleum Engineers, Chemical Engineers, Earthquake and Energy engineers, Environmental Engineers, Geotechnical Engineers, Mining and Geological Engineers, Sustainability Engineers, Physicists, Chemists, Geologists, and other professionals working in this field

Product details

• Authors: Chilingar, G Chilingar, George Chilingar, George V Chilingar, George V. Chilingar, George V. (University of Southern Calif Chilingar, George V. Sadeghi Chilingar, Chilingar George V., Kuznetsov, Oleg Leonidovich Kuznetsov, K. Majid Sadeghi, Kazem Majid Sadeghi, Kazem Majid (University of California Sadeghi
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781119760153
• ISBN: 978-1-119-76015-3
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Heat, energy and power station engineering; Erdöl, Umwelttechnik, Energie, Geophysik, Geowissenschaften, Geophysics, ENERGY, Vibration, fossile Brennstoffe, Erdölgewinnung, Earth Sciences, Fossil fuels, Environmental engineering, Bauingenieur- u. Bauwesen, Civil Engineering & Construction