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FORNY20-FORNY2020

Enhanced Oil Recovery

Alternative title: Stimulert oljeutvinning

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Carbon dioxide based production methods have a large potential for increasing the amount of oil under production. The typical increase is expected to exceed 20 %. As a side effect is the carbon dioxide stored in the reservoir. Even post-secondary recovery remain 60 % of the oil in the reservoir. Conventional carbon dioxide based enhanced oil recovery methods result in lower anticipated production yields due to heterogeneity and sub optimal wettability in the reservoir. Our lab experiments suggest that our integrated approach can be successfully used in heterogeneous reservoirs as well. This is of importance because 60 % of the worldwide reservoirs are heterogeneous. Our research results suggest that the amount of recoverable oil can be increased with 10-30 %. The production costs (carbon dioxide usage and operation time) can be reduced by 90 % with respect to conventional recovery methods. Patents are granted in the US and in Europe. Prior to large scale application of the technology has the process to be scaled up and verified in field trials. The first field trials will be done in the US. Positive field trial result will boost the interest in the technology and commercial opportunities. I parallel to the field trials are sales and marketing efforts facilitating out licensing of the technology primary in the US and then in Europe.

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FORNY20-FORNY2020