Original scientific paper

Exploitation of Light Tight Oil Plays

József Pápay ; Miskolc University: professor emeritus, MOL- PLC.: adviser

Abstract

The article gives an overview of light oil production from tight rocks from the aspect of petroleum reservoir engineering. The topics are: definition and properties, practical results, research to improve the recovery efficiency, significance of tight oil production and economics.
At present, the used natural depletion of these resources gives a very modest recovery factor. The improved methods are in laboratory or pilot scale only. The article outlines problems, which moderate the recovery efficiency, also including possible recovery processes. The realization of effective recovery of this type of accumulations represents a significant task for researchers and technical specialists. Most likely these efforts will produce good results in the near future in supplying a part of the primary energy consumption.

Keywords

tight reservoirs; estimation of unconventional oil; production; economics

Hrčak ID:

132899

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/132899

Publication date:

30.12.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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