Effects of Optimized Physical Vibration Parameters on Enhanced Oil Recovery

Tarek Ahmed Abdel Aal; Mostafa Oraby; Marwan Moussa

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Effects of Optimized Physical Vibration Parameters on Enhanced Oil Recovery

Tarek Ahmed Abdel Aal^*, Mostafa Oraby, Marwan Moussa

Published in Petroleum Science and Engineering (Volume 7, Issue 2)

Received: 28 November 2023 Accepted: 19 December 2023 Published: 28 December 2023

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In this paper the optimized vibro-seismic parameters for enhancing the productivity of the oil wells through water flooding is studied and presented. The main idea of the vibro-seismic application in the petroleum industry is to provide energy to the reservoir rock through the use of either physical vibration or acoustic waves vibrations to enhance the rock and rock-fluid properties which in turn may result in improving the oil recovery. The optimized parameters that are investigated here included frequency, amplitude (energy) and the vibration duration (time). It was found that the optimization of these three parameters is essential to make sure that the vibro-seismic treatment will enhance the rock properties or otherwise it may result in damaging the reservoir. Multiple core plugs with different porosities and permeabilities are used to investigate the effect of the vibro-seismic on the enhanced oil recovery for different reservoirs. Also, multiple combinations of parameters; frequency, amplitude and time are used and the optimum combinations for the different reservoir properties are obtained. The steps that are taken in this paper for the optimization is to compare the effect in the water flooding results with different vibration parameters to that obtained without vibrations to select the optimum vibration combination. The experimental work showed that there was an increase in recovery for all of the cores with different percentages when compared to the initial case of just waterflooding if the vibration parameters are optimized. Full discussion of the results and recommendations for further investigations are discussed.

Published in	Petroleum Science and Engineering (Volume 7, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.pse.20230702.13
Page(s)	43-49
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Vibroseismic, Waterflooding, EOR, Phyiscal Vibration

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Ahmed Abdel Aal, T.; Oraby, M.; Moussa, M. Effects of Optimized Physical Vibration Parameters on Enhanced Oil Recovery. Pet. Sci. Eng. 2023, 7(2), 43-49. doi: 10.11648/j.pse.20230702.13

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Ahmed Abdel Aal T, Oraby M, Moussa M. Effects of Optimized Physical Vibration Parameters on Enhanced Oil Recovery. Pet Sci Eng. 2023;7(2):43-49. doi: 10.11648/j.pse.20230702.13

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Tarek Ahmed Abdel Aal

Department of Petroleum Engineering, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

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Department of Petroleum Engineering, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Marwan Moussa

Department of Petroleum Engineering, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

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