| # | Project Name | Permeability (mD) | Salinity (ppm) | Temp (°C) | Polymer Type | Pilot/Full Field | Incremental Recovery (%) | Polymer Retention (µg/g) |
| 1 | Aishwariya Lower Fatehgarh | 1000–5000 | NR; relatively hard/divalent brine | Up to 77 at OWC | HPAM; ~25% initial hydrolysis | Injectivity test → six-well extension → full field | ||
| 2 | Alaska North Slope (Milne Point) | 500–5000 | 2600 (source water) | Very low (Arctic conditions) | HPAM | Pilot (two injector–producer patterns, horizontal wells) | ||
| 3 | Baytex 14-50-25W3 | 1000 | 70,000 ppm TDS (3500 ppm hardness) | 25 | HPAM (Partially Hydrolyzed Polyacrylamide, MW > 20 MDa) | Secondary/Tertiary-Full Field (after waterflood) | ~4% incremental OOIP (EUR increase from ~13% waterflood to ~17%) | — |
| 4 | Bhagyam | Multi-Darcy; exact value NR | NR in retrieved abstract | Pilot → full field | ||||
| 5 | Bohai Bay Block-X/SZ36-1 | ~2000 average | Field value not reported; Bohai laboratory injection water 9047 TDS | Field value not reported; representative Bohai tests at 65 | Hydrophobically associating polyacrylamide, AP-P4 | Single-well pilot → well-group trial → large-scale application | >7.1% OOIP as of June 2019 | Not reported |
| 6 | Canto de Amarao | 38–200 | 0.5 | 50 | — | Tertiary | 26 | |
| 7 | Captain EOR | 3000–11,000 | 31 | Polymer; exact commercial grade NR in retrieved source | Pilot → Stage 1 → full-field Stage 2 | NR; >15 MMbbl enhanced oil produced reported, not %OOIP | ||
| 8 | Chengdao 22F | Powder-form polymer, 3000 ppm | Large-scale offshore, 43 injection wells | 11.6 forecast, not observed | ||||
| 9 | Chichimene Fm1 | 100–10,000 | “High temperature”; numeric NR | Five-pattern pilot | 4–9% by pattern | |||
| 10 | Courtenay/Châteaurenard | Fresh formation/injection water; numeric TDS not reported | 30 | Emulsion-form partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide; 900–1000 ppm | Pilot → commercial field expansion | 6.6% of pore volume, published basis; not stated as %OOIP | ~35 | |
| 11 | Daqing (CNPC) | 400–1000 | 3–7 | 41 | HPAM (150–300 cP solutions) | Full Field | 12–25 | |
| 12 | Diadema (CAPSA) | 10–5000 | 15,000 | 50 | Flopaam 3630S (HPAM), 1500–3000 ppm | Tertiary | 6–8% OIP | — |
| 13 | Diadema Pilot | High perm ~500 mD avg | 15,000 ppm NaCl | 50 °C | Flopaam 3630S (HPAM), 1500–3000 ppm | Pilot | 6–8% OIP | N/A |
| 14 | East Bodo | NR in retrieved sources | Water chemistry variable; exact TDS NR | Associative polymer | Three-injector/six-producer pilot | 20% OOIP laboratory forecast after waterflood; field % NR | ||
| 15 | East-Messoyakhskoye | 50–5000 | 16 | HPAM polymer (≈1830 ppm; 30 cP at surface, 60–80 cP in reservoir) | Pilot | not clear | ||
| 16 | El Corcobo Norte | 500–4000 | 40,000 | 38 | HPAM | Polymer injection pilot | - | |
| 17 | EPIC001 Offshore Heavy oil | N/A | Field-scale modeling values | N/A | HPAM (modeled), viscosity-optimized | Simulation study (pilot-scale) | Improved vs. waterflood (non-numerical) | Strong dependency on adsorption level |
| 18 | Greater Burgan Wara East | 300–1000 | 100,000–270,000 | 50–70 | ATBS-HPAM | Pilot | 5–7% OOIP | 10–30 |
| 19 | Greater Burgan Wara PF North | 300–800 | 120,000–240,000 | 50–70 | ATBS-HPAM | Pilot | 4.5–6% OOIP | 20–65 |
| 20 | Greater Burgan Wara West | 250–900 | 100,000–240,000 | 50–80 | ATBS-HPAM | Pilot | 5–7% OOIP | 15–40 |
| 21 | HTHS Carbonate-Injectivity Test 1 | Upper: 10–100+; Lower: 1–20 | 260,000 | 120 | SAV10 (ATBS-rich sulfonated polymer) | Pilot (single-well injectivity test) | ~50 (used in calibrated model) | |
| 22 | HTHS Carbonate-Injectivity Test 2 | Upper: 10–100; Lower: 1–20 | 264,000 | 124 | SAV10 (ATBS-based, thermally stable polymer) | Pilot (single-well injectivity test) | ~50 (model-selected mid-case) | |
| 23 | JZ9-3 Polymer/SP Flood | Polyacrylamide; 0.12–0.15% 3640C in SP sequence | Three-year polymer flood followed by full-field SP | 4% incremental oil from polymer phase | ||||
| 24 | Kalamkas Full-Field | >500 mD | ~98,700–136,200 ppm TDS | 40 | HPAM (partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide): Flopaam 5205 (5% ATBS) and Flopaam 1630S | Full-field expansion | ~7.5% (field-wide average over waterflood) | retention ~20% lower vs. standard HPAM in lab/core tests |
| 25 | Mangala Field | 200–4000 | <8000 ppm | 65–70 | HPAM (+ ASP variant in later stages) | Polymer pilot → full-field | ~7% improvement in RF | — |
| 26 | Marmul | N/A | High salinity (>150,000 ppm typical of Oman) | >100 °C (HT) | ATBS/HPAM (e.g., SAV10, 15 cP solutions) | Full Field | Improved recovery (exact % not given but significant incremental RF) | N/A |
| 27 | Matzen Field 8TH | 500–1000 | 21,000 | 49 | HPAM, 500–1000 ppm (20 MDa, 30% hydrolysis) | Pilot | Good incremental observed, 5–8% | not observed |
| 28 | Mauddud DRCC | 50–300 | 150,000–270,000 | 70–90 | Hybrid system (Zr/La crosslinker + Sulfonated HPAM) | Pilot | Not yet quantified | 10–30 |
| 29 | Medicine Hat Glauconitic C (MHGC) | 580–1000+ mD | 30,000 ppm | 21 °C–35 °C | HPAM (Polyacrylamide), specifically FLOPAAM 3330 | Pilot (5 horizontal injectors) | 6% realized initially; targeted 10% with expansion | Inferred high due to low temperature and clay content (~10%) |
| 30 | Minagish Oolite | ~50–300 | 150,000–240,000 | 70–83 | ATBS-HPAM | Pilot | 4.5–7.3% OOIP | 10–40 |
| 31 | Minagish Wara | 200–800 | 110,000–210,000 | 45–65 | ATBS-HPAM | Pilot (LTPIT) | Not reported (injectivity focus) | 20–50 |
| 32 | Murphy Seal | 500–2000 | Generally low to moderate TDS (Seal water is relatively fresh) | 18–25 | HPAM (Partially Hydrolyzed Polyacrylamide) | Initially a Pilot; expanded to wider field applications | Target ~10–15% over primary production/waterflood | Moderate; influenced by high clay content in some sand facies |
| 33 | NIM-R Polymer Injectivity Trial | 200–2000 (avg. ≈ 800) | ~6000 (reservoir brine) | HPAM polymers of low and high MW (including high-MW Flopaam 3630S) | Pilot (Long-term injectivity trial) | Not reported (injectivity focus) | ||
| 34 | Nimr-E Multiwell Trial | NR in accessible text | Multiwell pilot: 3 horizontal injectors, 4 horizontal producers | ~7% IOIP observed/assessed | ||||
| 35 | Dalia & Camelia (Angola) | 1000 | 30,000 | 46 | High-MW HPAM (hydrolyzed polyacrylamide) | Pilot | 7 | |
| 36 | Offshore Abu Dhabi Carbonate | 5 | 230,000 | Not explicitly stated | Thermally and calcium-tolerant polymers (two proprietary polymers, molecular weight optimized by controlled shearing) used with proprietary surfactant system | Pilot (single-well SP CEOR with SWTT) | Not reported as field RF; oil desaturation ΔSo ≈ 33–36% locally | |
| 37 | Palogrande-Cebu | 6–150 | — | 62 | HPAM polymers (FP3230, FP3330, FP5115; low–medium MW, partly sulfonated) | Pilot (two inverted patterns: PG-34, PG-37) | 1.86% achieved (PG-34); projected up to ~8.8% (PG-34) and ~2.4% (PG-37) | ~39 |
| 38 | Patos-Marinza & Driza (Albania) | 100–2500 | high salinity | 40–42 | Flopaam 3630S (HPAM) | Field case | Polymer flooded areas reaching an ultimate recovery factor (URF) of 30% | — |
| 39 | Pelican Lake | 3000+ | 1–30 g/L salinity | 16 | HPAM | Massive field PF | Recovery 7–10% OOIP (field), 26% (pilot), ultimate 20–38% OOIP | — |
| 40 | RAUB UB2 LTPIT | 100–500 | 110,000–200,000 | 50–70 | ATBS-HPAM (lower MW) | Pilot (LTPIT) | Not reported (injectivity focus) | ~15–40 |
| 41 | Raudhatain Upper | 100–600 | 120,000–230,000 | 55–70 | ATBS-HPAM (reduced MW) | Pilot (LTPIT) | Not reported (injectivity focus) | ~15–40 |
| 42 | Rayoso-Grimbek | 200–1800 | 35,000 | 42 | Flopaam 3630S (HPAM), 1500–3000 ppm | Pilots (modular/staged) | 14% | 17–35 µg/g |
| 43 | Sabriyah Upper B. | ~30–400 | 120,000–200,000 | ~60–75 | ATBS-HPAM (≈20–40% ATBS) | Pilot (LTPIT) | Not reported (injectivity focus) | ~10–30 |
| 44 | Sabryah Mauddud | ~100–1000 | 89,000–241,000 | ~45–70 | ATBS-HPAM (15–50% ATBS) | Pilot (LTPIT) | Not reported (injectivity focus) | 10–65 |
| 45 | Shuanghe Elevated-Temperature Pilot | 420 average | 75 | Modified high-MW HPAM S525 and S625 | Pilot | 3.8 observed by December 1995; 9.8 forecast ultimate | ||
| 46 | Sirikit Oil Field | 35 | 85–95 | HPAM polymer | Pilot | - | ||
| 47 | South Turgay Pilot | ~400 mD average (range 85–90, 2–2200 mD) | ~79,000 ppm | 85–90 | HPAM terpolymer (acrylamide–acrylic acid–ATBS), SNF Flopaam | Pilot | Not reported (oil rate increased; water cut stabilized) | Not reported |
| 48 | SZ36-1 Pilot | NR field | High-salinity/high-hardness brine; exact TDS NR | NR | Hydrophobically associating polymer; AP-P4 identified in later work | Single-well pilot → broader application | Field % NR; laboratory associative-polymer displacement improvement 9.28% | |
| 49 | Tambaredjo-Sarah Maria | 4000–12,000 field T1; laboratory packs 401–877 | 500 injection; ~4700 formation | 38 | Flopaam 3630S HPAM; 1000 → 1350 → 2300 ppm | Three-injector pilot; later expansion | Field typically 50–250; full calculated range 14–517; laboratory ~0 ± 20 | |
| 50 | Umm Niqqa Lower Fars-High-Salinity 1-Spot Pilot | 1000–2000 | 166,000 ppm TDS | < 40 °C (≈ 35 °C reservoir) | ATBS-based HPAM | Pilot (one-spot SWCT-based) | ≈ 54% additional displacement efficiency vs. produced waterflood | — |
| 51 | Uzen | 1.3–120 mD | Cretaceous brine (preferred), lower salinity | 62 °C | Flopaam 5205 VHM (5% ATBS), 1600 mg/L | Pilot → Field | Economic modeling: positive PI = 1.93 (incremental RF not numerically specified) | Lowest dynamic retention screened polymers |
| 52 | XJ6 | Avg. 649 mD (up to ~1016 mD in S72–S73) | 4212 | 21 | Particle-type polymer system: SMG (Soft Microgel) with SLG + crosslinked polymer gel (LPG) | Pilot | — | — |
| 53 | Yariguí–Cantagallo TAP | Injector–producer ranges from ~400 mD up to 3000 mD (3 D) | Injection/formation water chloride ~17,500–18,800 ppm | 35–65 | Thermally Active Polymer (TAP): expandable sub-micron polymer particles (BWTR29404A, BWTR29398A) with surfactant dispersant | Pilot (two campaigns) | Not reported (%)-incremental oil reported as volumes (64,749 bbl total by December-2023) | NR |
| 54 | Zuata-Petrocedeño Pilot | 15,000 | 10,200 | 46 | HPAM (Flopaam 3630S) | Pilot | — |