Download or read book Applicability of Carbon Dioxide Enhanced Oil Recovery to Reservoirs in the Uinta Basin Utah written by Zhiqiang Gu and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 17 p. report presents the results of compositional simulations of CO2 floods of the Monument Butte Northeast unit and the Glen Bench field. This simulation study is a preliminary investigation of the CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) potential. This study attempts to 1) eliminate the post waterflood incremental oil recovery for the two fields using CO2 injection and water-alternating-gas injection, 2) determine CO2 utilization factors and 3) determine the sequestration potential of EOR for the fields.

Download or read book Impact of Carbon Dioxide Sequestration on Reservoir Brine Composition at an Enhanced Oil Recovery Site in Fayette County Illinois written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Application of in Situ CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery in Liquid rich Shale and Low temperature Reservoirs written by Onyekachi Ogbonnaya and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Carbon Dioxide Enhanced Oil Recovery from the Citronelle Oil Field and Carbon Sequestration in the Donovan Sand Southwest Alabama written by Konstantinos Theodorou and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from stationary sources and injecting it into deep underground geologic formations has been identified as a viable method for reducing carbon emissions to the atmosphere. Sedimentary rocks, such as sandstones overlain by shales or evaporites, are the preferred formations because their morphology and structure provide pore space, and containment for the long term storage of CO2. Sandstone formations have also served as repositories to migrating hydrocarbons, and are the sites of many oil recovery operations. For many depleted oil reservoirs, secondary waterflooding recovery methods are no longer efficient or economically viable, hence the application of tertiary CO2 enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR) followed by CO2 storage is an attractive and cost effective business plan. Citronelle Oil Field, located in southwest Alabama, is the largest and longest producing sandstone oil reservoir in the state, having produced more than 170 million barrels of oil from its estimated 500 million barrels of original oil in place, since its discovery in 1955. The field is in the later stages of secondary recovery by waterflooding and daily oil production has declined considerably. The field is comprised of the Upper and Lower Donovan hydrocarbon bearing sandstones, which are separated by the saline-water-bearing sandstones of the Middle Donovan. The Ferry Lake Anhydrite, which overlies the three sections, serves as their caprock. The present work is focused on an investigation of the feasibility of a CO2-EOR project for the Citronelle Oil Field and the use of the Middle Donovan for long term CO2 storage. A set of static calculations, based on estimation methods which were retrieved from publications in the field, was followed by computer simulations using MASTER 3.0, TOUGH2-ECO2N, and TOUGHREACT. Results using MASTER 3.0, for simulation of CO2-EOR, indicated that nearly 50 million barrels of additional oil could be produced by tertiary recovery. Results using TOUGH2-ECO2N and TOUGHREACT, for the simulations of CO2 storage, indicated that 159 million metric tons (175 short tons) of CO2 could be stored in the Middle Donovan formation. An investigation into possible CO2 leakage from the reservoirs indicated that the Ferry Lake Anhydrite serves as a very reliable long term storage seal. The present work can serve as a template for preliminary assessment of tertiary oil recovery and CO2 storage of similar oil reservoirs and saline-water formations.

Download or read book Experimental and Numerical Study of Carbon Dioxide Injection Enhanced Oil Recovery in Low permeability Reservoirs written by Tadesse Weldu Teklu and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Spinning Straw Into Black Gold written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Research and development in enhanced oil recovery written by Lewin and Associates and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Projects Investigating Oil Recovery from Naturally Fractured Reservoirs written by United States. National Petroleum Technology Office and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Play level Distributions of Estimates of Recovery Factors for a Miscible Carbon Dioxide Enhanced Oil Recovery Method Used in Oil Reservoirs in the Conterminous United States written by E. D. Attanasi and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Enhanced Oil Recovery written by M. M. Schumacher and published by William Andrew. This book was released on 1978 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Energy Research Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Enhanced Oil Recovery Field Case Studies written by Russell T. Johns and published by Elsevier Inc. Chapters. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most accepted and widely used technologies for enhanced oil recovery is injection of gas or solvent that is miscible or near miscible with reservoir oil. Understanding gas flooding requires a good understanding of the interaction of phase behavior and flow in the reservoir, and how oil and gas develop miscibility.

Download or read book Reservoir Simulation of Carbon Dioxide Enhanced Oil Recovery in an Ultra low Permeability Oilfield written by Ying Yu and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery is not only an effective way to manage carbon dioxide emissions, but also a superior choice to achieve oil recovery. This thesis concentrates on CO2-EOR in an ultra-low permeability reservoir. Matrix permeability has been shown to be less than 0.001 md for most parts of the reservoir. Careful selection of modeling strategy, data collation and screening, enabled the construction of a dynamic model, which was adjusted through history matching of primary and waterflooding production phases, to analyze the potential of carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery in this field. Although no capillary pressure data were provided, it was considered necessary to analyze the impact of capillary pressure on production forecasts. Production results indicate the existence of larger permeability channels. CO2-EOR offers multiple benefits for a long-term production and capillary pressure is advantageous to oil production.

Download or read book Numerical Simulation and Optimization of Carbon Dioxide Utilization for Enhanced Oil Recovery from Depleted Reservoirs written by Razi Safi and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to concerns about rising CO2 emissions from fossil fuel power plants, there has been a strong emphasis on the development of a safe and economical method for Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS). One area of current interest in CO2 utilization is the Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) from depleted reservoirs. In an Enhanced Oil Recovery system, a depleted or depleting oil reservoir is re-energized by injecting high-pressure CO2 to increase the recovery factor of the oil from the reservoir. An additional benefit beyond oil recovery is that the reservoir could also serve as a long-term storage vessel for the injected CO2. Although this technology is old, its application to depleted reservoirs is relatively recent because of its dual benefit of oil recovery and CO2 storage thereby making some contributions to the mitigation of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Since EOR from depleted reservoirs using CO2 injection has been considered by the industry only recently, there are uncertainties in deployment that are not well understood, e.g. the efficiency of the EOR system over time, the safety of the sequestered CO2 due to possible leakage from the reservoir. Furthermore, it is well known that the efficiency of the oil extraction is highly dependent on the CO2 injection rate and the injection pressure. Before large scale deployment of this technology can occur, it is important to understand the mechanisms that can maximize the oil extraction efficiency as well as the CO2 sequestration capacity by optimizing the CO2 injection parameters, namely, the injection rate and the injection pressure. In this thesis, numerical simulations of subsurface flow in an EOR system is conducted using the DOE funded multiphase flow solver COZView/COZSim developed by Nitec, LLC. A previously developed multi-objective optimization code based on a genetic algorithm developed in the CFD laboratory of the Mechanical Engineering department of Washington University in St. Louis is modified for the use the COZView/COZSim software for optimization applications to EOR. In this study, two reservoirs are modeled. The first is based on a benchmark reservoir described in the COZSim tutorial; the second is a reservoir in the Permian Basin in Texas for which extensive data is available. In addition to pure CO2 injection, a Water Alternating Gas (WAG) injection scheme is also investigated for the same two reservoirs. Optimizations for EOR Constant Gas Injection (CGI) and WAG injection schemes are conducted with a genetic algorithm (GA) based optimizer combined with the simulation software COZSim. Validation of the obtained multi-objective optimizer was achieved by comparing its results with the results obtained from the built-in optimization function within the COZView graphic user interface. Using our GA based optimizer, optimal constant-mass and pressure-limited injection profiles are determined for EOR. In addition, the use of recycled gas is also investigated. Optimization of the EOR problem results in an increased recovery factor with a more efficient utilization of injected CO2. The results of this study should help in paving the way for future optimization studies of other systems such as Enhanced Gas Recovery (EGR) and Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) that are currently being investigated and considered for CCUS.

Download or read book Heavy Crude Oil Recovery written by E. Okandan and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-04-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Heavy Crude Oil Recovery, Ankara, Turkey, June 21-July 4, 1982

Download or read book Investigating the Factors Impacting the Success of Immiscible Carbon Dioxide Injection in Unconventional Shale Reservoirs written by Sherif Mohamed Hisham Fakher and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unconventional shale reservoirs are currently gaining significant interest due to the huge hydrocarbon volumes that they bear. Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques have been suggested to increase recovery from shale reservoirs. One of the most promising EOR methods is gas EOR (GEOR), most notably carbon dioxide (CO2). Not only can CO2 increase oil recovery by interacting with the oil and the shale, but it has also been shown to adsorb to the shale rock and thus is effective in both EOR applications and also carbon storage purposes. This research aims to experimentally investigate several of the interactions that may impact CO2 injection in shale reservoirs in hopes of defining and quantifying the factors impacting these interactions and how these factors can contribute to an improvement in oil recovery from these reservoirs. This research begins by undergoing a review and data analysis on immiscible CO2 injection to investigate its injection methods, mechanisms, governing equations, and factors influencing its applicability. Following this, a mathematical simulation was undergone to investigate the different CO2 flow regimes that could occur during CO2 injection in shale reservoirs. The interaction of the CO2 with the shale rock via adsorption was investigated by undergoing several adsorption experiments. The CO2 interaction with the oil was also investigated by undergoing oil swelling which is considered the main mechanism by which oil recovery can be increased during immiscible CO2 injection, and asphaltene experiments to investigate the factors impacting these two interactions. Finally, cyclic CO2 injection was performed to determine the oil recovery potential of GEOR from shale reservoirs"--Abstract, page iv.

Download or read book Enhanced Oil Recovery written by Marcel Latil and published by Editions TECHNIP. This book was released on 1980 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents : 1. Factors common to all enhanced recovery methods. 2. Water injection. 3. Gas injection in an oil reservoir (immiscible displacement). 4. Miscible drive. 5. Gas recycling in gas-condensate reservoirs. 6. Thermal recovery methods. 7. Other methods of enhanced recovery. References. Index.