Reservoir Sweep Improvement
Section Head: Dr. Randall Seright
New Mexico Petroleum Recovery Research Center
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
801 Leroy Place
Socorro, NM 87801
P: (575) 835-5571
E: Email
We perform research and development to improve reservoir sweep efficiency and reduce saltwater production during oil and gas recovery operations.
Polymer Flooding
- Polymer Flooding: Current Status and Future Directions
- Polymer Flooding: An Online Course
- Videos of Polymer Flooding and Crossflow Concepts
- Potential for Polymer Flooding Viscous Oils
- How Much Polymer Should Be Injected?
- Rheology in Porous Media
- Injectivity
- Polymer Retention
- Chemical/Oxidative Degradation
- Field Applications
- Polymer Flooding vs In-Depth Gelation
Gels for Conformance Improvement
- Water Shutoff and Conformance Improvement: An Introduction and Literature Review. This is a reprint of an article published in Petroleum Science. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12182-021-00546-1.
- Use of Gels for Water Shutoff
- A Strategy for Attacking Excess Water Production
- Gel Placement Concepts
- Why Do Pore-Filling Gels Reduce kw Much More than ko?
- New Filter Cake Model
- Colloidal Dispersion Gels - A Literature Review
- Designing Gel Treatments:
Spreadsheets of Important Calculations.
