Enhanced Oil Recovery Technologies for the Arctic Region

In the coming decades, the Arctic region of Russia will be the main reserve of the country's oil and gas production industry. For effective development of oil fields in the Arctic, it is necessary to create and scale up scientifically based oil production technologies adapted to the northern conditions. The paper presents new oil recovery technologies developed at the IPC SB RAS, which can be used in the Arctic fields. The technologies with the use of thermotropic inorganic gelforming compositions GALKA^® and MEGA, oil-displacing compositions with controlled viscosity and alkalinity of NINKA^® and GBK are promising. The compositions have low freezing point, are effective in a wide range of geological and physical conditions and stages of field development.