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<br />[[File:Oil recovery.jpg|none|thumb|300x300px|Fig-1: Oil recovery stages and technologies <ref>Vishnyakov, V., Suleimanov, B., Salmanov, A., & Zeynalov, E. (2020). ''Primer on enhanced oil recovery''. Cambridge, MA: Gulf Professional Publishing, an imprint of Elsevier. </ref>]]<br /> | <br />[[File:Oil recovery.jpg|none|thumb|300x300px|Fig-1: Oil recovery stages and technologies <ref>Vishnyakov, V., Suleimanov, B., Salmanov, A., & Zeynalov, E. (2020). ''Primer on enhanced oil recovery''. Cambridge, MA: Gulf Professional Publishing, an imprint of Elsevier. </ref>]]<br /> | ||
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[[File:Gas-mobility-control.jpg|thumb|425x425px|Fig-2: Gas Foam Flooding Comparison to Gas Flooding |alt=|none]] | |||
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Revision as of 14:37, 3 March 2021
Gas Foam Flooding is an enhanced oil recovery process in which gas (widely CO2 and N2), is injected into the reservoir to recover the remainder oil left behind after the primary recovery. Oil recovery techniques
Introduction:
Oil recovery process in general comprises of three stages.
- Primary recovery
- Secondary recovery
- Tertiary recovery
Gas flooding and its drawbacks:
References
- ↑ Vishnyakov, V., Suleimanov, B., Salmanov, A., & Zeynalov, E. (2020). Primer on enhanced oil recovery. Cambridge, MA: Gulf Professional Publishing, an imprint of Elsevier.