Satisfying worldwide energy demand in the 21st century is the most challenging problematic. New kinds of energy sources along with new technological breakthroughs to maintain enough oil and gas supply are needed to meet the incredible rise in world’s energy demand.

Eoptima has entered into an agreement with Abu Dhabi University to use a patent meeting this challenge.

A green substitute to chemical flooding is proposed. The new technology proposed uses two types of plant extracts to increase the total oil recovery to 96% of initial oil in place (IOIP) during the tertiary recovery mode. While water flood recovered around 50% of the IOIP, 0.5% wt of the natural plant extract recovered 77% in the secondary recovery mode. The additives were extracted from two plants available in the United Arab Emirates (Product A and Product B). These natural extracts proved to be very effective in formations containing water with a salinity range of 70,000 to 180,000 ppm with temperature going up to 100 C.