THE 3 rd INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES OF STUDENTS AND YOUNG RESEARCHERS dedicated to the 99
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anniversary of the National Leader of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev
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ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY PRODUCTION AND RECOVERY PROCESSES FOR LOW API GRAVITY OILS THROUGH ELECTROMAGNETIC HEATING Javad Javadov Baku Higher Oil School Baku, Azerbaijan javad.javadov.std@bhos.edu.az Supervisor: Associate Professor Rauf Nadirov Keywords: eco-friendly, heavy oil, steam assisted gravity drainage,
electromagnetic
heating
While global energy consumption grows on a daily basis as a result of
economic expansion, untraditional hydrocarbon resources such as shale, oil
sands, heavy oil, and extra heavy oil play an essential role in mitigating energy
crises. To recover heavy oil, traditional thermal Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
technologies are usually utilized. These approaches include in-situ
combustion, cyclic steam injection, Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD),
and others. They are, however, sometimes commercially unviable and
technically challenging to execute. Growing environmental concerns, as well
as the requirement for long-term sustainability, demand the development of
eco-friendly alternative technologies. One of the most extensively used
procedures, the standard thermal heating technique done by the injection of
steam into reservoirs, has restricted application owing to a number of
problems that limit its use. These variables include poor injectivity reservoirs
as well as deep, heterogeneous reservoirs with a narrow pay zone. In these
instances, electromagnetic (EM) heating may increase heavy oil recovery by
providing consistent reservoir heating. This ecologically beneficial and risk-
free technology works by converting EM energy into heat energy. As a result
of this process, the temperature of the reservoir increases while the viscosity
of the oil lowers.
Though renewable energy development is encouraging, oil and gas are
expected to provide roughly 55 percent of the world's total energy demand
in 2040, while renewable energy sources will meet just 17 percent. Heavy oil
or very heavy oil accounts for the great bulk of the world's hydrocarbon
reserves. Because hydrocarbons are the most plentiful resource on the
planet, their successful utilization has a significant impact on the world's
overall energy supply [1]. Furthermore, the world's growing energy need has
forced it to realize the significance of unconventional hydrocarbon resources
and to put a larger priority on their production.
EM heating is a thermal EOR technology in which heat is generated
inside the reservoir [2]. The eco-friendliness of this technology, as well as the