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Acoustic and Vibrational Enhanced Oil Recovery
George V. Chilingar
Kazem Majid Sadeghi
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Oleg Leonidovich Kuznetsov
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Dedication
The authors are greatly indebted to Dr. Henry Chuang and Nina Chuang, for all of their tireless and generous help in accomplishing the completion of this book. Dr. Chuang was former student and teaching assistant in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Southern California through the guidance of Professor George V. Chilingar. The authors wish to thank them for everything and send them the very best wishes for their health and happiness.
List of Contributors
List of Major Contributors
Donald G. Hill
Valery P. Dyblenko
Rishard Ya. Sharifullin
E. Y. Marchukov
Ernst M. Simkin
I. A. Chirkin
Muhammad Haroun
M. L. Surguchev
Mehdi Shamsi
Other Contributors
Michael Gorfunkel
Julia V. Korobeynikova
Nurzhan Igissinov
Rustem Akimov
Mark S. Chilingar
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Introduction
Physical fundamentals of vibration and acoustic actions on the reservoir for improving the oil yield and increasing the development tempo of depleted and water-encroached oil fields are presented in this book. It is shown that the area of most efficient application is reservoirs with crudes characterized by a high water content and heterogeneity, low permeability, high shaliness, etc. The developed techniques are ecologically neutral and do not cause damage to the well-designed elements. The book may be useful to students, scientists, and engineering-technical personnel engaged in geophysics and development of petroleum fields.
The book is devoted to the theoretical and applied aspects of physics of the porous media saturated with oil, gas, and (or) water. A special attention is devoted to the hydro- and thermodynamic phenomena emerging in such media upon spreading within them of elastic waves with frequencies between infrasound and ultrasound. For expert analysis of the reviewed phenomena, the authors expended years of painstaking work (creating theoretical models and conducting specialized physical experiments on the reservoir models in the in situ conditions). In the 1970s to 1990s, the authors designed a complicated special equipment for the laboratory and field experiments and then conducted experimental and industrial testing. Beginning
