Center of Excellence for

Enhanced Oil Recovery

Vision

• To become PETRONAS’s “EOR Research & Technology Development Center”

Objectives

• To undertake fundamental research that will develop knowledge and support PETRONAS business in pursuing EOR research
  
  
• To develop PETRONAS personnel on fundamental knowledge required to strengthen their applied skills in EOR for the purpose of developing man power capability to support EOR initiatives by PETRONAS
  
  
• To jointly undertake applied research with PRSB where necessary that may results in field application
  
  
• To act as a platform for knowledge sharing and dissemination and technology transfer to EOR fraternity within PETRONAS and Malaysia
  
  

Research Area Covered

Research area covered is shown on following figure.

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Research Groups

1. WAG Implementation Challenges
   
   
2. WAG Optimization
   
   
3. Chemical EOR
   
   
4. Thermal and Unconventional Method