The role of enhanced oil recovery in the upstream petroleum sector, a case study from Turkey

Year 2019, , 291 - 297, 25.04.2019

Emre Özgür

https://doi.org/10.19111/bulletinofmre.444903

Abstract

The upstream petroleum
sector issues still keep its popularity worldwide. Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) is
an essential unconventional method of improving production in the petroleum sector.
The EOR is gaining more importance in the sector. 2% of the global crude oil production
is performed by EOR operations currently. The crude oil production of Turkey which
is now in a decreasing trend is performed from old and mature oil fields. Sharp
declines are expected for the oil production in the near future if new discoveries
do not take place or enhanced oil production techniques are not performed. The average
recovery rate for the crude oil fields in Turkey is about at 20%. An increase in
this ratio can provide significant amount of crude oil to Turkish production. The
ratio of crude oil production by EOR methods is about 15% currently in Turkey. In
this study, the historical background of EOR projects is explained and potential
EOR methods have been discussed for Turkish crude oil fields. The aim of the research
is to evaluate the crude oil production potential from existing oil fields of Turkey
based on EOR methods matching with the characteristics of oil fields with statistical
information on world EOR outlook.

 

Keywords

Turkey, Enhanced oil recovery, upstream, crude oil production

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