Alaska North Slope Simulation Study

Author

Jianqiao Leng
Mingzhen Wei, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow
Baojun Bai, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow
Randall S. Seright
Yin Zhang
David Cercone
Samson Ning

Abstract

The Alaska North Slope (ANS) is estimated to contain 20 Bbbl to 30 Bbbl of heavy oil. However, the development pace of that resource has been quite slow due to the high costs of development and the low oil recovery efficiency using conventional waterflood and EOR methods. Even after three decades of development efforts by multiple operators, the total heavy oil cumulative recovery from all ANS fields just reached 255 MMbbl, which was less than 1[%] of the total heavy oil in place in 2019.

Recommended Citation

J. Leng et al., "Alaska North Slope Simulation Study," Hart's E and P, vol. 96, no. 2, pp. 56 - 57, Hart Publications Incorporated, Feb 2021.

Department(s)

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering

Second Department

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Comments

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Grant None

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1527-4063

Document Type

Article - Journal

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2024 Hart Publications Incorporated, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Feb 2021