Plasma pulse technology

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With the increasing economical and environmental threats, oil companies and originations seeks ways to increase the recovery presenting of oil from every reservoir. Meanwhile, re-entry drilling of horizontal sidetracks from existing wells and multilateral drilling for new wells are techniques which help to achieve that goal. However, new approaches are needed to decrease the cost and to improve efficiency of rotary drilling methods used for these purposes. A new device called Plasma Pulse Technology or (PPT) is a method for drilling of small diameter holes in oilfields for sidetrack creation and multilateral (Novas Energy). The method relies upon the use of the energy of impulse spark discharges which are formed inside the rock formation in front of the drilling position. Plasma pulse technology was developed at St. Petersburg State Mining University. Plasma pulse technology has the potential to increase the lifetime of oil reservoir and it would significantly reduce the cost of exploration drilling (Novas Energy).
Before plasma pulse technology
Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) is a basic term for techniques for increasing the amount of rough and ready oil that can be extracted from any oil field (Hobson & Tiratsoo, (1975). Enhanced oil recovery is also can be called as improved oil recovery or tertiary. Quaternary recovery is a term that sometimes used to refer to more complex, speculative, EOR techniques. Before the birth of plasma pulse technology, according to Hobson & Tiratsoo, the recovery presetting of using enhanced oil recovery (EOR) to extracted the oil from the reservoirs are between 30 to 60 percent or more; however, the recovery presetting of the usage of the primary and secondary recovery techniques are between 2...

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...als in addition it is very salty. Therefore, this can be very harmful for drinking water sources and to the environment as well if it was not properly controlled by officials (USGS).
Conclusion
It is well known that primary and secondary production methods allow us to recover from 20 to 40 percent of fussil fuel resources (Hobson & Tiratsoo, (1975). Moreover, Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) makes it possible to produce up to 60 percent of the original oil in the reservoir remaining after standard production methods fail to extract more oil utilizing a broad field of techniques. Therefore, plasma pulse technology or (PPT) which it was invented at the St. Petersburg State Mining University, (PPT) can recover more than 90 percent of oil. In addition, plasma pulse technology works without any chemicals and therefore it is environmentally friendly to use (Novas Energy).

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