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Sustainable In-Situ Heavy Oil and Bitumen Recovery

Techniques, Case Studies, and Environmental Considerations

  • 1st Edition - March 24, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Mohammadali Ahmadi
  • Language: English

Sustainable In-Situ Heavy Oil and Bitumen Recovery: Techniques, Case Studies, and Environmental Considerations delivers a critical reference for today’s energy engineers who want t… Read more

Description

Sustainable In-Situ Heavy Oil and Bitumen Recovery: Techniques, Case Studies, and Environmental Considerations delivers a critical reference for today’s energy engineers who want to gain an accurate understanding of anticipated GHG emissions in heavy oil recovery. Structured to break down every method with introductions, case studies, technical limitations and summaries, this reference gives engineers a look at the latest hybrid approaches needed to tackle heavy oil recoveries while calculating carbon footprints. Starting from basic definitions and rounding out with future challenges, this book will help energy engineers collectively evolve heavy oil recovery with sustainability applications in mind.

Key features

  • Explains environmental footprint considerations within each recovery method
  • Includes the latest hybrid methods such as Hybrid of Air-CO2N2 and Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS)
  • Bridges practical knowledge through case studies, summaries and remaining technical challenges

Readership

Petroleum engineers, reservoir engineers, petroleum researchers

Table of contents

1. Heavy oil and Bitumen Characterization

2. Fundamentals of heavy oil and bitumen recovery

3. Non-Thermal Heavy Oil Recovery

4. In-Situ Thermal Heavy Oil Recovery

5. In-Situ Upgrading

6. Solvent-Steam Co-Injection

7. Non-Condensable Gas-Steam Co-Injection

8. Chemical-Steam Co-Injection

9. Hybrid of In-Situ Combustion and Steam-Based Heavy Oil Recovery

10. Electromagnetic heating processes for heavy oil and bitumen recovery

11. Practical Challenges in Reservoir Simulation of In-Situ Thermal Heavy Oil Recovery

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 27, 2023
  • Language: English

About the author

MA

Mohammadali Ahmadi

Dr. Mohammadali Ahmadi holds a BSc with distinction (Petroleum University of Technology), an MSc (Petroleum University of Technology) in Petroleum Engineering, and an MEng (Memorial University of Newfoundland) in Process Engineering, as well as a Ph.D. in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering from the University of Calgary. He published more than 160 papers in highly-ranked ISI journals and served as an invited speaker and session chair for various conferences worldwide. According to a database published in Elsevier publishing group in collaboration with Stanford University, he was named as a top 2% of the most cited scientists from 2018 to 2022. He was the recipient of multiple prestigious awards and scholarships, such as the Vanier scholarship, Izaak Walton Killam Doctoral Scholarship, the Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship, and the J. B. Hyne Research Innovation Award. As an Associate Editor, Editorial Board Member, and Advisory Board Member, he has served several international chemical engineering and energy-related journals. His research interests include molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, mathematical modeling, enhanced oil recovery (EOR), thermodynamics, and artificial intelligence and machine learning application in the oil and gas industry.
Affiliations and expertise
Vanier Scholar/Killam Laureate, Reservoir Simulation Research Group, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada

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