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Territory of Russia, which occupies 12.8% of the Earth's territory, contains 12-13%
of the forecast resources, and about 12% of the discovered oil reserves. Russia's proven oil
reserves amount to approximately 13.9 billion tons of oil as of January 1, 2017 (~101 billion
barrels). Oil recovery factor for proved reserves is ~17%. The increase of oil recovery factor
represents a huge stockpile for raising the level of oil production in the country at low costs.
Creation of improved core-simulator designed for indigenous supercomputers, with the
opportunity to take advantage of various methods of speeding up the numerical simulations
process is one of the most burning issues in the development of strategic reserves of
hydrocarbons in our country. The paper gives a coverage of results of computer simulations of
different strategies relevant to enhancing oil recovery from host rock formations.
Keywords: oil deposit, oil reserves, oil recovery factor, numerical simulations, coresimulator, micro-scale |
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