Acoustic and Vibrational Enhanced Oil Recovery

ACOUSTIC AND VIBRATIONAL ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY
Oil and gas is still a  major energy source all over the world, and techniques like these,  which are more environmentally friendly and inexpensive than many  previous development and production technologies, are important for  making fossil fuels more sustainable and less hazardous to the  environment.

Based on research they did in the 1970s in Russia  and the United States, the authors discovered that oil rate production  increased noticeably several days after the occurrence of an earthquake  when the epicenter of the earthquake was located in the vicinity of the  oil producing field. The increase in oil flow remained higher for a  considerable period of time, and it led to a decade-long study both in  the Russia and the US, which gradually focused on the use of  acoustic/vibrational energy for enhanced oil recovery after reservoirs  waterflooded. In the 1980s, they noticed in soil remediation studies  that sonic energy applied to soil increases the rate of hydrocarbon  removal and decreases the percentage of residual hydrocarbons. In the  past several decades, the use of various seismic vibration techniques  have been used in various countries and have resulted in incremental oil  production.

This outstanding new volume validates results of  vibro-stimulation tests for enhanced oil recovery, using powerful  surface-based vibro-seismic sources. It proves that the rate of  displacement of oil by water increases and the percentage of  nonrecoverable residual oil decreases if vibro-energy is applied to the  porous medium containing oil.

Audience:
Petroleum  Engineers, Chemical Engineers, Earthquake and Energy engineers,  Environmental Engineers, Geotechnical Engineers, Mining and Geological  Engineers, Sustainability Engineers, Physicists, Chemists, Geologists,  and other professionals working in this field