A Literature Review of CO2, Natural Gas, and Water-Based Fluids for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Unconventional Reservoirs

LC Burrows, F Haeri, P Cvetic, S Sanguinito, F Shi… - Energy & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Primary oil recovery from fractured unconventional formations, such as shale or tight sands,
is typically less than 10%. The development of an economically viable enhanced oil …

Tight and Shale Oil Exploration: A Review of the Global Experience and a Case of West Siberia

DB Dorhjie, E Mukhina, A Kasyanenko, A Cheremisin - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Shale and tight oil reservoirs, with horizontal wells and hydraulic fractures, typically have a
recovery ratio of around 10%. The exploration of tight oil and shale in North America has …

Low-salinity water-alternating-CO2 EOR

TW Teklu, W Alameri, RM Graves, H Kazemi… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2016 - Elsevier
Carbon dioxide flooding is currently the most technically and economically viable enhanced
oil recovery (EOR) process in carbonate and sandstone reservoirs. Low-salinity waterflood …

Investigating enhanced oil recovery in unconventional reservoirs based on field case review, laboratory, and simulation studies

J Zhao, L Jin, NA Azzolina, X Wan, X Yu… - Energy & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Aimed at advancing gas injection enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technologies in
unconventional reservoirs, this study comprised a series of activities to bridge the gap …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the power of machine learning in analyzing the gas minimum miscibility pressure in hydrocarbons

M Rayhani, A Tatar, A Shokrollahi… - Geoenergy Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Minimum Miscibility Pressure (MMP) plays a crucial role in subsurface gas injection
processes. Hence, the accurate determination and analysis of the effective parameters on …

Utilizing Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Modeling Minimum Miscibility Pressure in Carbon Capture and Utilization Processes: A Comprehensive Review and …

MN Amar, H Djema, K Ourabah, FM Alqahtani… - Energy & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The carbon dioxide (CO2) based enhanced oil recovery methods (EORs) are considered
among the promising techniques for increasing the recovery factor from mature oil reservoirs …

Experimental investigation of acid imbibition on matrix and fractured carbonate rich shales

TW Teklu, HH Abass, R Hanashmooni… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2017 - Elsevier
Matrix and fracture permeability of carbonate rich tight cores from Niobrara, Bakken, and
Three Forks formations were measured before and after exposing the core samples to …

Numerical modelling of cyclic CO2 injection in unconventional tight oil resources; trivial effects of heterogeneity and hysteresis in Bakken formation

Y Assef, A Kantzas, PP Almao - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
The impact of rock heterogeneity on the performance of cyclic gas injection is a key element
in tight oil reservoir modeling. Dependency of relative permeability on saturation history …

[HTML][HTML] Low salinity water–Surfactant–CO2 EOR

TW Teklu, W Alameri, H Kazemi, RM Graves… - Petroleum, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Coreflood, interfacial tension (IFT), contact angle, and phase behavior
measurements were performed to investigate the viability of a hybrid of low-salinity water …

Modified vanishing interfacial tension (VIT) test for CO2–oil minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) measurement

M Ghorbani, A Momeni, S Safavi… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2014 - Elsevier
Miscible gas injection is one of the most popular and applicable enhanced oil recovery
method in oil fields. Minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) is an important parameter for an …