Posible improvement of waterflood?!?
Posible improvement of waterflood?!?
(OP)
Hi,
Probably I came again with one of my strange ideeas. One of the reservoirs I work on (as reservoir engineer) produce a high quantity of water with phenols. We want to inject that water to obtain an waterflood, but we have some problems with the enviromental agency.
My question is verry simple:
Can we find a chemical assistance in order to give a proof to enviromental agency that those phenols might bring us a better wateflooding efect.
Please give me anything on the effect of phenols in oil reservoirs(good or bad things)
Probably I came again with one of my strange ideeas. One of the reservoirs I work on (as reservoir engineer) produce a high quantity of water with phenols. We want to inject that water to obtain an waterflood, but we have some problems with the enviromental agency.
My question is verry simple:
Can we find a chemical assistance in order to give a proof to enviromental agency that those phenols might bring us a better wateflooding efect.
Please give me anything on the effect of phenols in oil reservoirs(good or bad things)
Best regards,
Andrei





RE: Posible improvement of waterflood?!?
If you don't reinject the water what will you do with it? In the North Sea we've had a lot of pain due to phenols in the produced water that's disposed overboard (maybe it affects fish, maybe it doesn't...). You could that argument to get the Environmental agency on your side- injecting it back underground with no risk of it contaminating any aquifers and so on.
Finally I don't know of the effects of Phenol on EOR processess....there's an SPE meeting on Chemical EOR in Aberdeen next week- I'll see if phenols are one of the chemicals mentioned. Why don't you have a look through SPE papers and see if there's anything there concerning phenols in EOR?
RE: Posible improvement of waterflood?!?
The biggest problem is the water treatment (too expensive), and I try to find a way to avoid it with respect to enviromental rules. I also hope that Ms. Sara Thomas have an answer on that problem. Keep in touch.
Best regards,
Andrei
RE: Posible improvement of waterflood?!?