Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) applied a pilot improved oil recovery (EOR) project that in it a nanofluid was added into an oilfield in southern Iran for the first time to increase its recovery factor, MENAFN reports.
According to Shana, the high-tech project was revealed during a ceremony that officials from IOOC, the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), and Iran’s Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI) were present in it.
The pilot project includes inserting 18,000 barrels of nanofluid into one of the wells of Belal oil field in Hormozgan Province.
The primary research on the project initiated in the Iranian year 1394 and after the support of the project’s plausibility, NIOC’s research department started working on manufacturing the necessary nanofluids in teamwork with the RIPI.
Iranian Oil Company applies pilot improved oil recovery project
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