The Role of Nanoparticles in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)

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Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) refers to the injection of water/gas with possible additives into a petroleum reservoir to produce more oil. EOR typically targets post waterflood or gas flood residual oil after the field starts producing too much water/gas and oil production decreases. Effective EOR methods target both pore scale recovery as well as large scale field (vertical and areal) sweep efficiency. The choice and effectiveness of EOR methods depend on the oil and reservoir rock properties. The goal of this research is to optimise nanoparticle enhanced waterflooding for conventional oil recovery using the offshore Newfoundland oil fields as case studies. This work is important to the sustainable and increased production of Canada’s conventional oil and our resource based economy.