Omar Chaalal Patents Oil Retrieval Invention

July 18, 2015 - PRLog -- Omar Chaalal has done it again. He has figured out a way to retrieve oil that has usually just been left in oil wells due to the difficulty of getting it out. Several years ago, Mr. Chaalal created an invention that enabled oil to be removed from water in the event of an oil spill. He revealed this invention in a presentation. He claims that a colleague stole the invention idea and is now making money with it. He has taken steps to patent this invention.

This is how Omar Chaalal describes the process...

Today’s technology suggests the of use a variety of means such as CO2 injection, surfactant agent injection, natural gas miscible injection, and steam recovery in the final tertiary or enhanced oil recovery (EOR) phase. In this phase the injection of different materials to improve the flow between oil, gas and rock, and to recover crude oil remaining after the primary and secondary oil recovery phases. Oil that is left behind after water flooding is there because: either it has not been contacted by the injected fluid, or because of the capillary forces that exist between oil, water and the porous rock in the contacted portions that trap and retain it. This invention introduces a new natural product. This green product is environmental friendly, non-toxic, easy and safe to handle. The new product showed an oil recovery of 96.5% at reservoir temperature. This recovery is a breakthrough in the field of enhanced oil recovery.

Many oil formations contain water having high salinity and/or high concentrations of divalent ions such as calcium or magnesium dissolved therein, and are additionally at temperature high temperatures. Most of the available surfactants used in oil recovery operations are either ineffective in high salinity or high hardness waters, or incapable to stand the higher temperatures encountered in many formations. A powerful natural product that improves enhance oil reservoirs recovery through the reduction of interfacial tension and increases the volumetric sweep efficiency of fractured and /or heterogeneous oil reservoirs is introduced in this invention. The novel green surfactant for EOR is extracted from Product A and Product B. This natural agent proves to be very effective in formations containing water whose salinity is from 70,000 to 180,000 parts per million total dissolved solids and also having temperatures as high as 100° C. The agent is mixed with the formation water and is stable over a wide range of formation temperatures and water salinities and hardness values.

Contact - Omar Chaalal

chaalal@scientist.com for information

Here's a link to the patent: https://www.ipo.gov.uk/p-pj?lastResult=240&perPage=10...