Journal of Petroleum Engineering & Technology
Volume 5, Issue 2 (2015)
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Table of contents
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Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Process through Miscible Gas Injection: A Case Study of an Iranian Oil Reservoir
Abstract: Speedy computers and development in equations’ numerical solutions have enhanced applying simulation to predict the behavior of oil and gas reservoirs. The pressure in hydrocarbon reservoirs reduces overtime due to utilization of oil and gas resources until the fluid pressure itself is no more able to transfer it to the surface, and even if it reaches to the surface, its production is not cost-effective. Whereas, large amounts of hydrocarbon resources …
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Design and Layout Modifications of an Oil and Gas Processing Facility in a Part of the Upper Assam Basin, India
Abstract: Oil and gas processing acts as the preliminary treatment required to be performed on the raw crude oil and gas obtained from the wells so as to make it fit for further processing in the refinery. A particular oil and gas processing facility, located in the Assam Arakan basin is chosen and a detailed study is carried out regarding its various aspects. The study shows that the processing facility has …
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Chemical Sand Consolidation: An Overview
Abstract: Sand production from reservoir is a critical issue related to oil/gas fields because it gives rise to many serious problems in oil/gas production. Sand production from wells can damage the surface and subsurface facilities as well as it can reduce the well productivity, thus it can have adverse effects on economy of oil production. Sand control is requisite to economical extraction of oil/gas from the unconsolidated formations. So the development …
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Heat Integration of Crude Organic Distillation Unit using ASPEN PINCH
Abstract: chemical and petrochemical plants. In this article, the heat integration of crude organic distillation unit was elucidated with pinch analysis and ASPEN pinch simulating tool. Minimum utilities are calculated by constructing composite curves, shifted composite curves, grand composite curves and using problem table algorithm. Simulation studies include the effect of ΔTmin on hot and cold utilities requirement. Further Exergy losses are calculated by constructing Carnot composite curves and Carnot grand …
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Process Scheme for Effluent Treatment for Reinjection of Produced Water
Abstract: The scope of the study is to conceptualize a treatment process for produced water treatment and reinjection into reservoir for pressure support. ABC field is producing 800 m3/day, with 60% water cut. To access the suitability of using effluent water for reinjection in ABC field, produced water analysis and treated water parameters have been considered for conceptualizing the treatment design. Produced water analysis reveals its inferior quality in terms of …
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Flexibility Analysis of Refinery Piping System
Abstract: Piping systems in downstream refineries and process plants experience a great thermal strain due to the difference between ambient and operating temperatures of process and utility fluid flowing through them. This thermal growth causes thermal stresses which leads to failure in piping components like flange leakage, deflection in piping, fractures at nozzle juncture and other fatal errors in piping system. Therefore, these piping structures must be flexible enough to support …
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Review of Radial Drilling Technology and Viable Prospect in Mature Field Development in the Niger Delta
Abstract: A review of some Niger Delta oil field reservoirs indicates that most of the reservoirs are at the mature stages, thereby vulnerable to challenges such as; coning due to reduced size of the oil column, low oil production and lack of access to the residual oil trapped between existing wells of the mature field. Due to coning occurrences in the Niger-Delta oil field, most wells have been shut-in and a …
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Relative Permeability Study in Part of Geleki Oil field of Upper Assam Basin
Abstract: Relative permeability is a critical parameter for evaluation of reservoir performance. Relative permeability is a direct measure of the ability of the porous medium to allow flow of one fluid when two or more fluids are present. This flow property is the composite effect of pore-geometry, wettability, fluid saturation, saturation history, reservoir temperature, reservoir pressure, overburden pressure, rock-types, porosity and permeability types. The relative permeability curves are very important in …
Published in Journal of Petroleum Engineering & Technology · Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2015 · pp. 9–14 Read article