Advances in improved/enhanced oil recovery technologies for tight and shale reservoirs

L Wang, Y Tian, X Yu, C Wang, B Yao, S Wang… - Fuel, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a comprehensive review of the technical progress as well as updated
knowledge and understandings of IOR/EOR technologies for tight oil reservoirs. Critical and …

[HTML][HTML] A review of phase behavior simulation of hydrocarbons in confined space: Implications for shale oil and shale gas

X Liu, D Zhang - Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
In oil field development, phase behavior would influence fluid components and mobility, thus
affecting production. As a fine-grained sedimentary rock, shale brings difficulties to …

Phase equilibria of confined fluids in nanopores of tight and shale rocks considering the effect of capillary pressure and adsorption film

X Dong, H Liu, J Hou, K Wu, Z Chen - Industrial & Engineering …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Because of the effect of nanoscale confinement, the phase behavior of fluids confined in
nanopores differs significantly from that observed in a PVT cell. In this paper, the cubic Peng …

Effect of confinement on pressure/volume/temperature properties of hydrocarbons in shale reservoirs

T Pitakbunkate, PB Balbuena, GJ Moridis… - Spe Journal, 2016 - onepetro.org
Shale reservoirs play an important role as a future energy resource of the United States.
Numerous studies were performed to describe the storage and transport of hydrocarbons …

Insights into adsorption and diffusion behavior of shale oil in slit nanopores: A molecular dynamics simulation study

X Dong, W Xu, R Liu, Z Chen, N Lu, W Guo - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanoscale pores have been widely observed in shale plays. Within such a small scale pore,
the interaction between fluid molecules and porewall surface becomes significant, and the …

Thermodynamic phase behaviour and miscibility of confined fluids in nanopores

K Zhang, N Jia, S Li, L Liu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, thermodynamic phase behaviour and miscibility of confined pure and mixing
fluids in nanopores are studied. First, a semi-analytical equation of state (EOS) is developed …

Experimental investigation of confinement effect on phase behavior of hexane, heptane and octane using lab-on-a-chip technology

M Alfi, H Nasrabadi, D Banerjee - Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2016 - Elsevier
The study of phase behavior of hydrocarbons inside shale rock has garnered significant
attention in contemporary literature. The present work focused on experimental techniques …

Comprehensive outlook into critical roles of pressure, volume, and temperature (PVT) and phase behavior on the exploration and development of shale oil

B Liu, S Gao, E Mohammadian… - Energy & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Shale oil has received increasing attention as an essential replacement for conventional oil
resources. Shale oil recovery is a complex process controlled by interactions of many factors …

On the replacement behavior of CO2 in nanopores of shale oil reservoirs: Insights from wettability tests and molecular dynamics simulations

X Dong, W Xu, H Liu, Z Chen, N Lu, W Wang - Geoenergy Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
CO 2 injection process has become one of the most effective development methods of shale
oil reservoirs. Considering the widespread nanoscale pores in shale, the replacement …

Molecular simulation of the pore size distribution effect on phase behavior of methane confined in nanopores

B Jin, R Bi, H Nasrabadi - Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2017 - Elsevier
An understanding of the phase behavior of hydrocarbons is important in the petroleum
reservoir simulation. However, fluid phase behavior in a shale reservoir is substantially …