The making of development plan to produce an oil or gas field usually involves several
distinct stakeholders (eg, the operator, partners and the government) with many …

Doctrines often develop with minimal empirical support. This observation is clear in reservoir
engineering for heavy and viscous oils. Our objective is to develop a deeper appreciation of …

Polymer flooding has now become a relatively well accepted method to increase production
and recovery in heavy oil fields. Numerous pilots have taken place these last few years and …

Due to the adverse mobility ratio conditions in heavy oil waterflooding processes, the
viscous force is not as significant as that in conventional waterflooding in terms of enhancing …

Voidage replacement is a key element in displacement processes, not only for keeping the
reservoir pressure at its initial level but also in mitigating surface subsidence in certain fields …

Diffusion-initiated interfacial dynamics between two miscible fluids are investigated.
Heptane is diffused into viscous crude oil in a microscale Hele-Shaw cell. No external …

Doctrines often develop with minimal empirical support. This observation is clear in reservoir
engineering for heavy and viscous oils. Our objective is to develop a deeper appreciation of …

We report a novel payload delivery technique based upon surfactant-stabilized emulsions to
transport nanoparticles into geological formations. Such nanoparticles are useful for …

Crude-oil recovery processes with a voidage replacement ratio (VRR= injected
volume/produced volume) less than 1 combine solution gas drive mechanisms and viscous …

The critical gas saturation in permeable sands was studied as a function of depletion rate
and the presence of an aqueous phase as the major experimental variables. Voidage …