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What is Steam Injection?

Steam Injection is an "enhanced oil recovery" (EOR) technology that represents one of the most efficient methods for recovery of "trapped oil," also known as stranded oil, particularly stranded oil that is considered to be "heavy oil." 

Steam Injection is the primary method of "thermal stimulation" and production of oil in most oil reservoirs. There are several different forms of the technology, with the two leading methods known as; Cyclic Steam Stimulation and Steam Flooding. Both variations of Steam Injection are used to produce oil in oil reservoirs that are relatively shallow and which contain crude oils which are known to be "heavy oil." Heavy oil is "viscous" at the ambient temperatures within the native underground oil reservoir and formation.

Diagram of the Steam Injection 
process courtesy of Dept of Energy

The major oil companies, when producing oil in "primary recovery" typically produce and recover the "easy oil" representing as little as 10% of the oil reservoir's "original oil in place." After recovering the easy oil, it is necessary to go into "secondary recovery" which is also referred to as enhanced oil recovery or tertiary recovery. These secondary recovery methods are expensive and sometimes only producing marginal amounts of oil. Therefore, some oil companies simply choose to plug and abandon the well and move on to the next project after only recovering as little as 10% of the oil in the reservoir leaving behind what is referred to as "trapped oil." 

Trapped oil - in reservoirs where enhanced oil recovery technologies are deployed to enable the trapped oil to flow, or drain from the host rock in the underground reservoir, to a production well. Enhanced oil recovery technologies produce the otherwise trapped oil from the otherwise depleted reservoir.

EOR Technologies is a company that delivers the optimum enhanced oil recovery solution on a "technology-neutral" basis. This is determined by reservoir/oil field analysis, history, present conditions and operations. 

Over the past forty years, the enhanced oil recovery industry has produced a number of excellent and proven EOR technologies. 

However, the optimum EOR technology for any one particular client with declining oil production, is dependent on a number of variables that must be identified and understood before selecting the correct EOR technology, including;

• Specific oil reservoir  type / condition

• Depth of pay zone

• Interfacial tension or IFT ( displacement efficiency)

• Mobility control (sweep efficiency)

• Oil composition

• Oil gravity

• Oil reserve

• Overall condition of well

• Permeability

• Porosity

• Reservoir's brine (salinity NaCl) content

• Reservoir's temperature

• Working condition of reservoir 

among others. The "optimum" EOR technology for one reservoir and pay zone may not be the optimum EOR technology for another - even within the same oil field. That's why we are "EOR technology neutral." We apply the optimum EOR technology for each client's specific requirements for maximizing our client's oil recovery, at the least possible cost. 

Enhanced oil recovery represents a significant opportunity for companies with declining oil production to significantly increase their oil production and revenues through our range of EOR technologies and services.

About us:

We Free Trapped Oil ^sm with the optimum EOR "technology-neutral" solution.  EOR Technologies' products, services and capabilities include: 

• ASP flooding

• Chemical EOR

• Chemical Flooding 

• CO2-EOR

• CO2 Flooding

• CO2 Injection

• Energy Investment Banking 

• Enhanced Oil Recovery

• EOR Conference

• EOR Technologies 

• Gas-EOR

• Gas Injection 

• Microbial EOR

• Miscible Gas

• Nitrogen Injection 

• Petroleum Engineering

• Polymer Flooding 

• Polymer Injection

• Reservoir Engineering

• Reservoir Stimulation

• Solar EOR 

• Steam Injection 

• Surfactant EOR

• Surfactant Flooding

• Thermal EOR

• Tracer Testing

• Upstream oil and gas acquisitions

There can only be one "optimum" EOR solution per well/reservoir or mature oil oil field.  EOR Technologies identifies that EOR solution to insure the maximum oil production for the least cost for our clients. Note: EOR technologies, products and services may be provided in part or in whole by affiliated companies or partner companies. Call/email us today for an initial consultation to discuss your declining oil production problems.

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