Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)

Why EOR?
Sudapet H.Q
to 16th May 2013

Khalid Abdulbasit_ RE_

Sudapet

12 th

Contents

Introduction.

Peak Oil.

Reasons of why EOR in Sudan.

Introduction

Enhanced oil recovery became one of the most and

common way to increase the oil production rate in
all the producing oil & gas fields in the world.

There are many reasons behind selecting the

tertiary recovery (Enhanced oil recovery) to be used
to increase the recovery factor in the oilfields.

Increasing of the knowledge and improving the

technology is one of the main reason to attract and
encourage the clients and investors to implement
the EOR.

In addition to most of the easy oil (green fields) is

already produced as well as the production reached
the peak already more than 10 years ago.

Peak Oil
Peak oil is the point in time when the maximum
rate of petroleum extraction is reached after which
the rate of production is expected to enter terminal
decline.
Global production of oil fell from a high point in
2005 at 74 MMSTB/day.
Peak oil is determined by the observed production
rates of individual oil wells, projected reserves and
the combined production rate of a field of related
oil wells.

Why EOR in Sudan?

In Sudanese oilfields, there are many reasons of thinking
or implementing EOR methods, since there are three
main EOR methods (Thermal, Chemical & Miscible Gas).

1.

High amount of oil

remaining reserve:

o Reserve is defined as
the cumulative oil to be
recovered commercially
in the future.
o The remaining reserve
in Sudan has high
amount
which
is

2.

High
of
oil
remaining in place
(STOIIP):

o STOIIP is defined as the

total amount of oil found
in the reservoir (will not
being all produced).
GRV N/G S
STOIIP 7758

oi

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o The remaining oil in

place in Sudan has very
high amount which is

3.

High water cut:

o Water cut defined as the

percentage of water
rate in the total liquid
produced.
It
is
measured
in Rate
%
Water
WC

LiquidRate

o The average water cut

is very high in Sudan.
o Chemical

EOR

can

4. Good oil price:

o The objective of EOR is
to
maximize
the
recovery factor (RF) by
increasing oil production
rate which is more cash
and benefits.
o Oil price became one of
the
main
attractive
reasons of doing EOR.

5.

It is the time for

tertiary recovery:

o Oil
production
is
dropping,
primary
recovery
period
is
ended,
secondary
recovery can not be
implemented due to
high oil viscosity.
o Easy
oil
already.

has

gone

6. Low recovery factor:

o After both primary and
secondary periods still
RF is very low.
o Recovery
factor
is
defined as the total
amount of produced oil
divided by the STOIIP.
RF

CumOil
STOIIP

7.

Availability
technology:

of

o Technologies
became
available in the market,
easy to be understood
which
is
attractive
reason to do EOR.