An Overview on Polymer Retention in Porous Media

Energies - Tập 11 Số 10 - Trang 2751
Sameer Al‐Hajri1, Syed Mohammad Mahmood1, Hesham Abdulelah1, Saeed Akbari1
1Department of Petroleum Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar, 32610, Perak, Malaysia

Tóm tắt

Polymer flooding is an important enhanced oil recovery technology introduced in field projects since the late 1960s. The key to a successful polymer flood project depends upon proper estimation of polymer retention. The aims of this paper are twofold. First, to show the mechanism of polymer flooding and how this mechanism is affected by polymer retention. Based on the literature, the mobility ratio significantly increases as a result of the interactions between the injected polymer molecules and the reservoir rock. Secondly, to provide a better understanding of the polymer retention, we discussed polymer retention types, mechanisms, factors promoting or inhibiting polymer retention, methods and modeling techniques used for estimating polymer retention.

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