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Challenges and Recent Advances in Sustainable Oil and Gas Recovery and Transportation

1st Edition - March 10, 2023

Editors: Sanket Joshi, Prashant Jadhawar, Asheesh Kumar

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9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 3 0 4 - 3

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Challenges and Recent Advances in Sustainable Oil and Gas Recovery and Transportation delivers a critical tool for today’s petroleum and reservoir engineers to learn the latest research in EOR and solutions toward more SDG-supported practices. Packed with methods and case studies, the reference starts with the latest advances such as EOR with polymers and EOR with CCS. Advances in shale recovery and methane production are also covered before layering on sustainability methods on critical topics such as oilfield produced water. Supported by a diverse group of contributors, this book gives engineers a go-to source for the future of oil and gas.

The oil and gas industry are utilizing enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods frequently, but the industry is also tasked with making more sustainable decisions in their future operations.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
List of contributors
Part 1: Basics and advancements in oil and gas recovery
Chapter 1. Methane production techniques from methane hydrate reservoirs
Abstract
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Worldwide status of methane hydrate utilization
1.3 Well stimulation techniques for methane hydrate reservoirs
1.4 Recent improvements in methane hydrate production simulators
1.5 Worldwide projects initiated after “ice-breaking” trials in Japan and China
1.6 Trend discussion and future concerns
References
Chapter 2. Biosurfactants and their significance in altering reservoir wettability for enhanced oil recovery
Abstract
2.1 Biosurfactants
2.2 Reservoir formation
2.3 Oil and gas extraction—a little history
2.4 Oil extraction techniques
2.5 A case study
2.6 Conclusions from the case study
2.7 Future opportunities
References
Chapter 3. Fluid production from NGH reservoir: fundamental physics, numerical model, and reservoir simulation
Abstract
3.1 Numerical models and the associated multiphysics
3.2 Recent advances on numerical simulations on hydrate-bearing core samples
3.3 Classification of the NGH reservoir and the associated fluid production profile
3.4 Recent advances on reservoir simulations on recent field production tests
3.5 Summary
Credit
References
Chapter 4. Role of nanofluids in chemical enhanced oil recovery
Abstract
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Nanofluids
4.3 Properties of nanofluids
4.4 Nanofluid stability
4.5 Nanofluid stability mechanism and factors affecting stability of nanofluids
4.6 Nanofluid enhanced oil recovery mechanisms
4.7 Nanofluid application in chemical enhanced oil recovery
4.8 Polymer-assisted nanofluids
4.9 Surfactant nanofluids
4.10 Effects of nanofluids on enhanced oil recovery
4.11 Challenges of nanofluid application in enhanced oil recovery
4.12 Future scopes and opportunities
4.13 Conclusion
References
Chapter 5. Biostimulation in microbial enhanced oil recovery: from laboratory analysis and nutrient formulation to field monitoring
Abstract
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Pre-injection process
5.3 Field implementation for MEOR biostimulation
5.4 Summary
References
Chapter 6. Microbial enhanced oil recovery: application of biosurfactants in oil and gas industry
Abstract
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Biosurfactant
6.3 Role of biosurfactants in microbial enhanced oil recovery
6.4 Additional uses of biosurfactants in the oil and gas industry
6.5 Conclusion
6.6 Future prospects and suggestions
References
Chapter 7. Simulation and modeling of fractured reservoirs: an overview
Abstract
7.1 Introduction to fractured reservoirs
7.2 Fractured reservoir: physical understanding
7.3 Fractured reservoir: mathematical understanding (dual-porosity model)
7.4 Limitation of the dual-porosity model and range of applications
7.5 Improvement in dual-porosity porosity
7.6 Available commercial and open source simulators
7.7 Conclusion
References
Chapter 8. Synergistic interactions of SmartWater with surfactant and polymer chemicals for enhanced oil mobilization
Abstract
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Experimental materials, methods, and procedures
8.3 Results and discussion
8.4 Conclusions
References
Part 2: Basics, advancements, and challenges in transport, underground storage and HSE
Chapter 9. Application of life cycle assessment on enhanced oil recovery processes
Abstract
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Life cycle assessment methodology
9.3 System boundaries
9.4 Impact assessment
9.5 Conclusion and implications for future work
References
Chapter 10. Carbon dioxide-induced corrosion in flowlines and tubular: implications, opportunities, and the path ahead for carbon utilization and storage applications
Abstract
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Background of corrosion
10.3 Fluid properties: multiphase properties
10.4 Corrosion risk analysis of various stages of CO2 transport, surface storage, and injection
10.5 Corrosion risk analysis of CO2-EOR methods
10.6 Corrosion control strategies
10.7 Conclusion and future scope
Acknowledgment
References
Chapter 11. Oil field produced water: issues and possible solutions
Abstract
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Produced water management
11.3 Treatment technologies
11.4 Chemicals and reverse demulsification
11.5 Disposal methods
11.6 Key challenges and solutions
References
Chapter 12. Biological souring and mitigation strategies in oil reservoirs
Abstract
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Biological souring
12.3 Biological souring mechanism
12.4 Reservoir conditions and operations cause biological souring
12.5 Microbial souring community
12.6 Mitigation strategies
12.7 Techniques for biological souring detection and prevention
12.8 Conclusion
References
Chapter 13. Performance comparison of smart well design for waterflooding processes
Abstract
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Reservoir dynamic system
13.3 Reservoir and wells configurations
13.4 Optimization approach
13.5 Results and discussions
13.6 Conclusions and recommendations
Acknowledgment
Appendix A: PVT properties of the reservoir model
References
Chapter 14. Black powder formation in natural gas pipeline networks: associated issues and root cause analysis
Abstract
14.1 Background and statement of the problem
14.2 Black powder: composition and sources
14.3 Problems encountered due to the presence of black powder
14.4 Conclusion
References
Chapter 15. Opportunities and challenges in aquifer underground natural gas storage with a CO2 cushion
Abstract
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Aquifer UNGS
15.3 Application of data-driven methods
15.4 Power-to-gas with subsurface storage
References
Index

Sanket Joshi

Dr. Joshi has academic teaching and research experience of about 16 years, and industrial R&D experience of about 4 years in India and Oman. While working in Indian pharma companies, he undertook several turnkey projects. His current research interests encompass energy (In-situ/ex-situ microbial enhanced light/heavy oil recovery; chemical enhanced oil Recovery; biofuels), microbial products (biosurfactants, biopolymers, R&D and scale-up), and environmental bioremediation (crude oil pollution; analysis, mitigation and control of souring by Sulfate reducing bacteria; HPAM contaminated sites). He has about 125 scientific publications in international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings, and two books to his credit. He is an Academic/Associate Editor for: Frontiers in Microbiology, PeerJ, Ecotoxicology (Springer), Petroleum Science and Technology (Springer), 3 Biotech (Springer), and Open Biotechnology Journal; guest editor for Frontiers in Microbiology, Sustainability, Scientifica, and Open Biotechnology Journal.

Affiliations and expertise

Deputy Director, Oil and Gas Research Center, and Application Specialist, Central Analytical and Applied Research Unit, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

Prashant Jadhawar

Prashant Jadhawar is an experienced academician with industry experience of more than 18 years in the United Kingdom, Germany (senior reservoir engineer R&D, Wintershall Holding GmBH), India, and Australia. His expertise areas are enhanced oil and gas recovery (CO2 sequestration, low salinity waterflooding, and chemical processes, gas hydrates in porous media), flow assurance (gas hydrates), res¬ervoir modeling and simulation, pipeline transport of gases (hydrogen, CO2), and their storage in geoformations (current). He delivered numerous conference presentations and invited talks, published 42 articles, and is an editorial board member of Springer Nature Journal Scientific Data and the continuing education committee of SPE Aberdeen section.

Affiliations and expertise

Lecturer in Petroleum Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

Asheesh Kumar

Asheesh Kumar is a scientist (Ramanujan Fellow) at CSIR—Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun and an assistant professor at AcSIR (Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research). He is in the list of world’s top 2% scientists released by Stanford in 2022 and associate member of Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC). He has worked as a senior research associate at the University of Western Australia, National University of Singapore, Singapore and as a visiting scientist at the CSIRO, Western Australia. He received his MTech degree and PhD degree at IIT, Roorkee, India and CSIR—National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, respectively. His broad research focus is on energy, environment and sustainability.

Affiliations and expertise

Senior Research Associate, University of Western Australia’s School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, Australia