Abstract
Building upon the experience of one of the world’s largest hydrocarbon miscible projects at the Intisar “D” Reef, Libya is currently embarking upon what is undoubtedly the world’s largest national program on enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Under the supervision of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), reservoir and process screening studies are in progress in many operating oil fields, and the results will identify appropriate EOR processes for the reservoirs to which they are amenable. These studies will also establish the technical and economic viability of the planned projects.
This paper discusses some of the preliminary results, and identifies, for the first time, the EOR target oil and the expected reserves therefrom. The technical and resource barriers to widescale application of EOR in Libya, are also discussed and recommendations made for their remedies.