ADORE – Advanced Oil Recovery Methods

The project is a joint venture between the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), GEO, Stanford University and University of Southern California. The project is financed by the Danish Research Council.

The world’s consumption of oil grows and easily accessible oil resources diminish. The oil production of the future will be technologically and economically demanding. The need for more efficient utilisation of existing, conventional oil fields presents great challenges with respect to recovery methods and reservoir characterization.

Because of the special conditions in the Danish oil fields, the expected recovery is today only 30 %. To increase this number, the efficiency of old recovery methods must be increased and new recovery methods must be developed and tested.

In the Adore project, we focus on two types of so-called Enhanced Oil Recovery methods (EOR), which because of their complexity entail a high risk. On the other hand, they may also prove highly effective, if they work. The methods are ”Chemical Flooding” (including acidizing) and ”Thermal Recovery”.

GEO contributes with theoretical and practical knowledge of rock mechanics.