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Enhanced Oil Recovery

Don W. Green & G. Paul Willhite

1998

545 pp.;Softcover

SPE Textbook Series Vol. 6

ISBN:978-1-55563-077-5

Society of Petroleum Engineers

This textbook describes technologies that can be applied to recover oil that cannot be produced by primary recovery or waterflooding. These technologies include polymer, micellar-polymer, and CO2 flooding, as well as thermal-recovery processes that are typically implemented following primary production. A prior understanding of basic petrophysics, fluid properties, and material balances is recommended.

Contents: Introduction to EOR processes • Microscopic displacement of fluids in a reservoir • Displacement in linear systems • Macroscopic displacement of fluids in a reservoir • Mobility-control processes • Miscible displacement processes • Chemical flooding • Thermal recovery processes

About the Authors: Don W. Green is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas (KU). Before joining KU in 1964, he worked in the Production Research Division of Continental Oil Co. At KU, Green was chair of his department from 1970–1974 and 1996–2000; in addition, he was co-director of the Tertiary Oil Recovery Project from 1974–2007. Green is the author or co-author of 67 refereed publications and more than 100 technical meeting presentations and is the co-author of the SPE textbook Enhanced Oil Recovery. He holds a BS degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa and MS and PhD degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Oklahoma. Green has served as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer and is the recipient of the SPE Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty and the IOR Pioneer Award; he was named an Honorary Member of SPE in 2007. He is also a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. G. Paul Willhite is the Ross H. Forney Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas. He has been a member of the faculty since 1969, serving as chair of the department from 1988 to 1996 and interim chair from 2003 to 2004. In 1974, he cofounded the Tertiary Oil Recovery Project and served as codirector from 1974 to 2009. Before joining the faculty, he worked in the Production Research Division of Continental Oil Company in Ponca City, Oklahoma. Willhite holds a BS degree from Iowa State University and a PhD degree from Northwestern University, both in chemical engineering. He is the author of the SPE textbook Waterflooding and coauthor of the SPE textbook Enhanced Oil Recovery. Willhite is a Distinguished Member of SPE; he received the Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty in 1981, the Lester C. Uren Award in 1986, and the John Franklin Carll Award in 2001. He also received the IOR Pioneer Award at the 2004 SPE/DOE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium. Willhite was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.

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