Chemical EOR

Although Chemical EOR methods have been proven as resulting in the highest RF, because of their very high cost they have not been preferred unless really necessary.

Taking this reality into account, the research under this group is mainly concentrated on solving this issue.

The research subjects that fall under this group includes but not limited to:

• Synthesizing new/modified chemical agents (from local/inexpensive sources for EOR applications)
• Developing novel CEOR methods
• Chemical agent injection schemes

Team Members

Academic

1. AP. Dr. Isa M Tan (Group  Leader, UTP)
2. AP Dr. Ismail M Saaid (UTP)
3. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Onur (UTP)

Students

1. Mohamed Ali Hamid (Research officer, PHD Candidate, UTP)
2. Muhammad Mushtaq (PhD Candidate, UTP)
3. Muhammad Rehan Hasmet (PhD Candidate, UTP)
4. Siti Nurbaya Mustafa Kamal (MsC Candidate, UTP)

Related Publications

1. Akmal Aulia, Tham Boon Keat, Muhammad Sanif M., Noaman El-Khatib and Mazuin Jasamai, "Mining Data from Reservoir Simulation Results," in International Conference on Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences (ICIPEG) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., 2010.

2. Akmal Aulia and Noaman El-Khatib, "Mathematical Modeling of Adsorption and Dispersion in Chemical Flood EOS Compositional Flow," in International Conference on Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences (ICIPEG) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., 2010.

3. Ayman Abo Jabal, Isa M. Tan, Zakaria Man, Saikat Maitra, “A Kinetic Analysis of the Degradation of Grafted Anionic Polyacrylamide Gel under Nonisothermal Condition”, journal of engineering science and technology vol. 4, no. 4 (2009) 364 – 373.

4. Ayman Abo Jabal, Isa M. Tan, Zakaria Man and Saikat Maitra,” Studies On The Non-Isothermal Degradation Kinetics Of Grafted Anionic Polycrylamide Gel”, Caledonian Journal of Engineering Volume 04, Number 02, July-December 2008.

5. Elraies, K. A., Tan, I., and Fathaddin, M. (2010). A New Approach to Low-Cost, High Performance Chemical Flooding System. SPE 133004, presented at SPE Production and Operations Conference and Exhibition, June 8-10, Tunis, Tunisia.

6. Elraies, K. A., and Tan, I. (2010). Design and Application of a New Acid-Alkali-Surfactant Flooding Formulation for Malaysian reservoirs. SPE 133005, to be presented at the SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition, October, 18-20, Brisbane, Australia.