Optimum design of CO2 storage and oil recovery under geological uncertainty

W Ampomah, RS Balch, M Cather, R Will, D Gunda… - Applied energy, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents an integrated numerical framework to co-optimize EOR and CO 2
storage performance under uncertainty in the Farnsworth Unit (FWU) oil field in Ochiltree …

Machine-learning-based prediction of oil recovery factor for experimental CO2-Foam chemical EOR: Implications for carbon utilization projects

HV Thanh, DS Dashtgoli, H Zhang, B Min - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) using CO 2 injection is promising with economic and
environmental benefits as an active climate-change mitigation approach. Nevertheless, the …

Strategy to Enhance Geological CO2 Storage Capacity in Saline Aquifer

S Li, P Wang, Z Wang, H Cheng… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Geological CO2 storage is an emerging topic in energy and environmental community,
which is, as a commonly accepted sense, considered as the most promising and powerful …

Robust optimization of CO2 sequestration through a water alternating gas process under geological uncertainties in Cuu Long Basin, Vietnam

HV Thanh, Y Sugai, R Nguele, K Sasaki - Journal of Natural Gas Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study presents a robust optimization workflow to determine the optimal water alternating
gas (WAG) process for CO 2 sequestration in a heterogeneous fluvial sandstone reservoir …

Joint optimization of well locations, types, drilling order, and controls given a set of potential drilling paths

R Lu, AC Reynolds - SPE Journal, 2020 - onepetro.org
Much work has been performed on the optimal well placement/control problem, including
some investigations on optimizing well types (injector or producer) and/or drilling order …

Stochastic optimization of hydraulic fracture and horizontal well parameters in shale gas reservoirs

MH Rammay, AA Awotunde - Journal of Natural Gas Science and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Multistage hydraulic fracturing is one of the most important techniques in the successful
exploitation and development of shale gas reservoirs. Most unconventional reservoirs rely …

Performance assessment of CO2-enhanced oil recovery and storage in the Morrow reservoir

W Ampomah, R Balch, RB Grigg, M Cather… - … and Geophysics for Geo …, 2017 - Springer
This paper presents a performance assessment methodology for CO 2 enhanced oil
recovery (EOR) in partially depleted reservoirs. A three dimensional heterogeneous …

Well placement and control optimization for WAG/SAG processes using ensemble-based method

Y Zhang, R Lu, F Forouzanfar, AC Reynolds - Computers & Chemical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Compared to the CO 2 flooding, the alternative injection of water/surfactant solution and CO
2 gas (WAG/SAG) can provide good control over the mobility ratio, stabilize the …

A Stochastic Optimization Approach for Profit Maximization Using Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer Flooding in Complex Reservoirs

Z Tariq, M Mahmoud, D Al-Shehri… - SPE Kingdom of Saudi …, 2018 - onepetro.org
In heterogeneous reservoir formations, water tends to have early breakthrough due to the
overriding and viscous fingering during secondary recovery. The overall hydrocarbon …

A quasi-Newton trust-region method for optimization under uncertainty using stochastic simplex approximate gradients

E Eltahan, FO Alpak, K Sepehrnoori - Computational Geosciences, 2023 - Springer
The goal of field-development optimization is maximizing the expected value of an objective
function, eg, net present value for a producing oil field or amount of CO 2 stored in a …