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Reviews “A comprehensive work compiling information on advanced methods for oil recovery, their working, and how they have sparked a new field of research wherein chemistry, geology, and petroleum engineering play a major role. I believe, this book, with its emphasis on both theory and practice, is a must-have for both academicians and field personnel.” —From the Foreword by Professor Kris Ravi, University of Leoben (Montanuniversität Leoben), Leoben, Styria, Austria This comprehensive book presents, describes, and summarizes the latest advances in chemical EOR, considered to be an efficient technique to recover bypassed oil and residual oil trapped in reservoirs. This volume reports on the various EOR methods, which rely on the injection of chemicals to boost oil recovery. CONTENTS: About the Authors / Editors: Editors: Tushar Sharma, PhD Associate Professor, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT), Jais, India Tushar Sharma, PhD, is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT), Jais, India. He is also the Head and Lead Instructor at the Enhanced Oil Laboratory at RGIPT. His main areas of research include enhanced oil recovery, nanofluids, emulsions, and rheology. Dr. Sharma also has expertise in the handling of rheometers, core-flooding equipment, surface tensiometers, hydrates, well testing, computational fluid dynamics, and rock geomechanics. He reviews articles for international peer-reviewed journals and has authored over 40 papers in leading international journals. Among other research work, Dr. Sharma has filed two patents for consideration with the Indian Patent Registry. Dr. Sharma worked as a visiting research fellow at the University of Alberta, Canada, on a project funded by the Canadian Government. This project focused on the solvent-heavy oil interactions and microfluidic visualization for solvent-steam assisted heavy oil recovery. Dr. Sharma has conducted training seminars for engineers from Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (India). Dr. Sharma is also the faculty coordinator of the RGIPT Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE) student chapter, which is currently ranked amongst the best in the world. Dr. Sharma is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). Dr. Sharma received his doctoral degree from IIT Madras for his work on Pickering emulsions and their application in EOR. Krishna Raghav Chaturvedi, PhD Outreach Manager, American Chemical Society Krishna Raghav Chaturvedi, PhD, is currently an Outreach Manager at the American Chemical Society, where he works in outreach with the scientific community and leads efforts for the upskilling of the upcoming workforce. His research focuses on synthesizing novel single-step silica nanofluids for improved CO2 flow behavior and reduced formation damage. Primarily, this work focuses on improving the efficacy of CO2-based enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in depleted oil fields that are essential to ensure a net-zero future. Dr. Chaturvedi is a highly cited “Top 2% Elsevier List” petroleum engineer-turned carbon capture, utilization, and storage expert. He has two books to his credit along with more than 30 papers and two patents. He was awarded with the inaugural Best PhD Thesis Award in New Energy Studies for the year 2022 by the Federation of the Indian Petroleum Industry (FIPI). He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun and RGIPT,India, respectively. He recently earned his PhD thesis from the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petro-leum Technology (RGIPT), Jais, India. Tarek Ganat, PhD Lecturer, Petroleum and Chemical Engineering Department, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman Tarek Ganat, PhD, is a Lecturer in the Petroleum and Chemical Engineering Department, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. Earlier, he was with the Petroleum Engineering Department at Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia, as a lecturer in 2017. Dr. Ganat has BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees, all in petroleum engineering, and has more than 25 years of experience in petroleum production and reservoir engineering through his participation in integrated studies with different oil and gas companies, such as Gowoff Oil Company, Libya; Repsol Exploration Company, Spain; Petro-Canada Oil Company, Canada; and Petronas Grigali Oil Company, Malaysia. His professional experience comes from his work in the oil and gas industry in tanning centers and from his work that focused on subsurface evaluation for green fields and brown fields. He has a wide range of overseas experience gained in fractured carbonate and clastic reservoir characterization and full field development. He also has considerable experience in the application of petroleum-industry related packages in multinational and multicultural joint ventures. He has authored two textbooks published with Springer and has published many papers in journals and conferences (ISI [Q1 & Q2] journals and Scopus). In addition, he is a reviewer for the Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology. Dr. Ganat secured two research grants pertaining to Petronas Oil Company as project leader. Imtiaz Ali, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Petroleum and Gas Engineering, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Quetta, Pakistan Imtiaz Ali, PhD, is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Petroleum and Gas Engineering, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Quetta, Pakistan. Dr. Ali worked with the Oil & Gas Development Company Pakistan before associating with the King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as a researcher, wherein he developed a rock-scratching cell to determine different rock mechanical properties. His research interests include chemical enhanced oil recovery, the development of non-damaging drilling fluids, CFDs, and formation damage. He authored five book chapters and has made 25 scholarly contributions to peer-reviewed research journals. Dr. Ali has long been associated with the Department of Petroleum and Gas Engineering, BUITEMS, and plays a crucial role in training future hydrocarbon workforce of Pakistan. He completed his PhD in Petroleum Engineering at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia; his bachelor’s degree in Petroleum and Gas Engineering at Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering, and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Pakistan; and his master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. |
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