Salym Petroleum Development presented a unique video about ASP, a promising enhanced oil recovery technology

20.06.2014
Courtesy of salympetroleum.com

On the first day of the World Petroleum Exhibition, Salym Petroleum Development (SPD) presented a unique video about ASP, a promising enhanced oil recovery technology, at its stand. This innovation is based on the injection of a three-component Alkali, Surfactant, and Polymer (ASP) mixture into oil producing formations. The technology makes it possible to additionally produce up to 30% of oil remaining after conventional waterflood.

The first spectators of the movie about ASP technology were Natalia Komarova, Governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra; Fanuza Arslanova, Deputy Governor; as well as delegations of SPD shareholders’ representatives led by Olivier Lazare, Shell Russia Chairman, and Vadim Yakovlev, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, First Deputy CEO, Gazprom Neft.

In addition thereto, the SPD stand hosted a meeting between the KHMAO – Yugra Governor and SPD and Gazprom neft representatives. During the meeting Oleg Karpushin, SPD CEO, spoke about the progress in the execution of the pilot ASP technology implementation project on the Salym group of fields. The participants of the meeting discussed the phases of interaction in the sphere of providing tax incentives during implementation of this technology. Natalia Komarova, the Yugra Governor, expressed confidence in the success of the pilot ASP project on the Salym oilfield, and proposed to discuss the tax incentive issue at a higher level involving representatives of the Federal Government.

ASP is a promising enhanced oil recovery method based on chemical formation flooding with a three component mixture (alkali, surfactant, and polymer). It becomes possible to enhance oil recovery factor by injecting a composition of certain chemicals into the well. Surfactant reduces interfacial tension of oil, while alkali influences the electric charge of rock, which in its turn reduces surfactant loss. Polymer is applied to enhance solution viscosity. The technology has already been actively applied in the USA, Canada, and China; pilot testing is performed in several other countries. SPD has been studying this technology since 2008. The company has already run several laboratory and field tests. In 2012 SPD shareholders approved execution of an ASP pilot project on the Salym group of oil fields in 2013-2015.

Source: salympetroleum.com