Drainage of Remaining Heavy Oil Reservoir by Implementing Electromagnetic Microwave with Nano-Ferro Fluid Injection

Enhanced Oil Recovery is an advanced technology for draining oil reserves. Based on research (Oil Field Directory), heavy oil reservoir has 40% of potential of the world's reserves, and steam injection is commonly used to decrease the fluid with high viscosity that is easier to get lifted. But, the steam injection only can be used in shallow reservoir and it can not beimplemented in offshore. One of the solutions in producing heavy oil is by using heating source caused by microwave heating when it passes through a highly resistant material, which is reinforced by a nano-fero fluid stimulant that will accelerate heat in the reservoir. It is expected that the short distance between microwave heating source and the reservoir will be able to produce higher electrical current and also reduce the heat loss. On the economic side, this method is more efficient than the steam injection. Moreover, it can be used not only for shallow reservoir. However the problem limitation in this paper was about using a heating concept that is generated by microwave powered up to 1300 watt with laboratory scale in experimenting the research. This paper was intended to formulate relationship between long-time microwave heating and thedistance of creepage that was heated. The hypothesis of this paper was that microwave heatingmethod could heat the heavy oil with nano-ferro fluid as the stimulant. Nano-ferro fuid can be injected into reservoir. The heat that was generated from this method could creepage and heats the reservoir rock and the heavy oil. This paper had been simulated in laboratory and generated the appropriate result. The result was that microwave heating method could decrease viscosity of heavy oil to make it easier to be lifted, the increase of sand pack temperature is directly proportional with power output, and it is directly proportional with nano-ferro concentration. For further experiment, another different nano particle should be used to get comparison and achieve the best kind of nano particle. Another suggestion is simulating heating reservoir by using microwave and nano-ferro fluid with three dimension.