@article{article_931732, title={Waterflooding of Heavy Oil Reservoirs}, journal={Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Fen ve Mühendislik Dergisi}, volume={24}, pages={437–445}, year={2022}, DOI={10.21205/deufmd.2022247110}, author={Coskuner, Gokhan}, keywords={Heavy Oil, Waterflooding, Polymer Flooding}, abstract={Waterflooding or polymer flooding is sometimes dismissed as an ineffective process for heavy oil fields, with development plans focused on more exotic and expensive recovery mechanisms such as chemical or thermal processes. There are a number of unique mechanisms that operate in heavy oil fields under water and polymer flood. It is, therefore, possible to succesfully flood heavy oil reservoirs with viscosities up to and beyond 10,000 cp oil viscosity. This work elaborates on the unique mechanisms operating in heavy oil water and polymer floods, presents a workflow for successfull implementation and supports its conclusions with a number of case studies, namely, actual successful field examples from Canadian heavy oil fields. The hope is that, this experience can be translated to heavy oil fields in other parts of the world including Turkey.}, number={71}, publisher={Dokuz Eylul University}