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khebab wrote:I was wondering why Tertiary recovery techniques are not much addressed on this forum?

Anything that doesn't fall in line with all decline, all the time, is not appreciated.

Just look at what happened with shale development, no need for full development of secondary and tertiary techniques when the US can double its production and repeak the entire country off of other types of resources.

khebab wrote:Is it hopeless or can we expect significant production increase from EOR?

Depending on exactly what you consider EOR, it is possible to have 85% of inplace volumes using these techniques. So no hopeless involved, just cost.

AdamB wrote:

khebab wrote:I was wondering why Tertiary recovery techniques are not much addressed on this forum?

Anything that doesn't fall in line with all decline, all the time, is not appreciated.

Just look at what happened with shale development, no need for full development of secondary and tertiary techniques when the US can double its production and repeak the entire country off of other types of resources.

khebab wrote:Is it hopeless or can we expect significant production increase from EOR?

Depending on exactly what you consider EOR, it is possible to have 85% of inplace volumes using these techniques. So no hopeless involved, just cost.

Anything that doesn't fall in line with all decline, all the time, is not appreciated?

Maybe that's because all of these things; shale development, EOR, 'tertiary recovery techniques', costs of production, are indicative of overall decline. If oil was as plentiful and easy-to-produce as it was 50 years ago, we wouldn't bother to discuss these things. I doubt any of us would even be here, or that this site would exist.