Thermal Processes in Petroleum Engineering to Enhance Oil Recovery

Enhance Oil Recovery by thermal processes involve exchanging heat into reservoir in order to increase oil production. There are several topics in regard to thermal process to enhance oil recovery. There are several topics in regards to Enhance Oil Recovery by thermal processes as listed below;


Introduction to Thermal Processes in petroleum engineering

· Hot water injection

· Steam injection

· In-situ combustion

Heat transport in concentric systems

* Modes of heat transport
* Heat conduction in concentric systems
* Heat transport in injection and production wells

Steam injection

* Process description of steam injection
* “Screening guidelines”
* Thermal properties of steam and rocks
* Steamflood models

o Marx-Langenheim
o Jones
o Gomma
o DOE
o Numerical simulation – Shutler and Coats

* Cyclic steam injection model

o Boberg-Lantz

In-situ combustion

· Process description of In-situ combustion as dry forward combustion, wet combustion, reverse combustion

· Kinetics of in-situ combustion

· In-situ combustion models as Nelson, Crookston et al. andRamey

Thermal Project evaluation

* Project design
* Economic evaluation

Reference books: Enhance Oil Recovery Books