revised_Customer process enhanced Oil & Gas recovery in the Chemical sector

Oil & Gas recovery

Maximizing the well output

PROCESS DESCRIPTION

If natural gas and petroleum resources can no longer be exploited through natural reservoir pressure (primary production) or by introducing water (secondary production), so-called tertiary processes, known as Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) or Enhanced Gas Recovery (EGR), are used. Tertiary processes include the injection of gases into the reservoir. During "fracking" so-called "shale gas" is extracted. Here, aqueous suspensions are injected into rock layers at high pressure, breaking up gas-containing layers so that natural gas is released.