Laboratory of Colloidal Oil Chemistry

Head of the Laboratory Prof. Lyubov K. Altunina E-mail: alk@ipc.tsc.ru canc@ipc.tsc.ru Phone: 7 (3822) 491623; 491146

Leading Researcher Dr. Vladimir A. Kuvshinov E-mail: vak@ipc.tsc.ru canc@ipc.tsc.ru Phone: 7 (3822) 492411

Research fields:

• Development of theoretical and practical bases of the enhanced oil recovery by physicochemical methods.

Main results:

• Fundamental research of the processes of oil displacement from the reservoir by surfactant solutions and the systems on their base was carried out;

• A complex of procedures and installations intended to carry out physicochemical, rheological and hydrodynamic studies was developed;

• The systems with controlled alkalinity and viscosity provided to intensify oil production and enhance oil recovery in the West-Siberian oil fields were developed;

• The concepts of application of the reservoir energy to form oil-displacing liquids and gels directly in the reservoir are under development;

• A complex microbiological and physicochemical method for reservoir stimulation is developed.

• Large-scale pilot tests of technologies using the systems developed were carried out in Russia oil fields (Nizhnevartovsk, Langepas, Strezhevoy, Kogalym, Nefteyugansk, Nyagan, Ukhta) and in Vietnam. The technologies are commercially applied in oil fields of West Siberia. Over 40 thousand tonnes of systems have been injected in 20 oil fields of West Siberia. Incremental oil recovery reached 700 thou. tonnes.

• 7 technologies were recommended for commercial application.

• Technologies of the enhanced oil recovery are protected by Russia patents, 8 licenses on their application were sold.

• The Laboratory numbers 19 employees, including 1 Professor, 4 Doctors of Sciences and 4 post-graduate students.