This paper experimentally investigated influential thermodynamic reservoir characteristics such as pressure, temperature, soaking time, core stimulation, number of cycles, shale particle size, and carbon dioxide phase during the cycling carbon…
Fluid immobilizations in tight formations augment the importance of CO2 molecular diffusions in the processes of geological carbon utilization and storage. This study, for the first time, investigates the CO2 diffusions in unconventional tight…
CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is a potential way for carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS). However, the effect of CO2 injection is greatly influenced by the reservoir conditions. Typically, Minimum miscible pressure (MMP) is selected as…
Concerns about climate change have persuaded the researchers to examine CO2 injection in the form of carbonated water (CW) into oil reservoir as a safe and effective CO2 storage and enhanced oil recovery process. Although interfacial tension (IFT)…
Renewable and carbon free energy relates to the sustainable development of human beings while hydrogen production by renewables and hydrogen underground storage ensure the stable and economic renewable energy supply. A hybrid energy system combining…
Zero-dimensional carbon nanomaterials show intriguing potential in the field of unconventional oil resource development for reducing injection pressure and enhancing oil recovery. However, the complicated synthesis procedure, necessity for surfactant…
As 41 % of China’s CO2 emission comes from coastal provinces and cities, permanent sequestration of anthropogenic CO2 in offshore sediments is a priority to achieve China’s national goal of net zero by 2060. In this paper we evaluate the potential of…
CO2 injection contributes to formation energy supplement to remedy the fast production decline in tight oil reservoir and CO2 storage at the same time.CO2 Here, we report CO2-water relative permeability with consideration of acid-rock reaction. The…
This study develops an integrative simulation model of a water alternating gas (WAG) process that co-injects carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4)–CO2–CH4 WAG—for formation damage caused by asphaltene deposition in an oil reservoir. The influences…
Fractures play an important role in hydrocarbon storage and migration in basement buried hills. Taking the South Jinzhou oilfield (JZS oilfield) as an example, based on the data from cores, thin sections, seismic, logging, and experimental analysis,…
Pore structure and connectivity are key factors that determine the quality of tight sandstone reservoirs, which are a frontier field for exploration worldwide in the 21st century but are quite challenging to characterize. Here we explored novel…
The dispersion coefficient is a key physical parameter for enhanced gas recovery (EGR) and reflects the degree of mixing between the displacing-fluid CO2 and natural gas. However, no comprehensive overview of existing research on EGR dispersion…
In this paper, we evaluate decarbonization opportunities for the power and industry sectors in Thailand by carbon capture and storage (CCS). Stationary CO2 sources from the power sector include coal-fired, natural gas-fired and waste-to-energy power…
As an enhanced oil recovery method, the air injection process (AIP) has been applied for decades. However, deviations are still being identified between laboratory tests and field applications. One possible reason for such deviations is the formation…
There are obvious differences in the gas dryness coefficients of different oil and gas reservoirs in the Cainan oil-gas field in the eastern part of Junggar Basin, which is uncommon in petroliferous basins. Based on an analysis of the natural gas…
Shales are generally treated as non-porous formations and are frequently considered as the source rock and the cap layer. Over the past decades, technical breakthroughs in the US such as horizontal drilling, multi-stage hydraulic fracturing,…
One of the approaches to sustainable energy supply is underground natural gas storage (UGS). In UGS, the gas in the underground storage is made up of two fractions, namely base gas (cushion gas) and working gas. The base gas is injected into the…
Underground oil storage is a viable technique to increase energy security in the context of global concern for oil demand and supply. When the economic conditions permit, it makes sense to store oil in water-flooded, water-wet sandstone reservoirs…
Primary oil recovery is the first stage of hydrocarbon production in which a reservoir uses its natural energy to force hydrocarbon to its wellbore. Secondary oil recovery comes to play when hydrocarbons can no longer be further produced by natural…
Fractures play an important role in hydrocarbon storage and migration in basement buried hills. Taking the South Jinzhou oilfield (JZS oilfield) as an example, based on the data from cores, thin sections, seismic, logging, and experimental analysis,…
Each natural accumulation of hydrocarbons has unique chemical and molecular characteristics. A complete experimental assessment of every substance involved is impossible and, in most cases, gaps left by laboratory tests must be filled by empirical…
The Barents Sea has experienced intense erosion throughout the Cenozoic due to uplift and repeated episodes of glaciation. This, in turn, has driven large pressure and temperature fluctuations in the sediment substrate along with rearrangement of…
In recent years, high-order methods for the discretization of the advection dominated saturation equation, and that results from the modelling of the 2D Oil-Water displacement through porous formations, have received renewed attention from the CFD…
Thermal enhanced oil recovery methods such as hot water flooding, steam drive, cyclic steam injection, steam-assisted gravity drainage, in-situ combustion, and electrical heating involve multiphase and multicomponent thermal flow with phase change…
Each natural accumulation of hydrocarbons has unique chemical and molecular characteristics. A complete experimental assessment of every substance involved is impossible and, in most cases, gaps left by laboratory tests must be filled by empirical…
Meeting the objective shared by all offshore oil and gas companies - maximizing reservoir production and recovery - is constantly challenged by a growing host of market issues and technology risks. When producing new offshore fields, operators face…
Engineering and economic optimization of the value of water as an essential commodity and successful management of the overall water cycle are of great interests for the petroleum industry. The general objective is to maximize the benefits and safety…
Air injection techniques have been widely applied in oil fields, but the associated safety issue of natural gas (NG) and oil explosion has been of great concern. In this study, explosion experiments of different NG compositions were conducted under…
Different from other gas drive processes, phase behavior performs more significant roles in natural gas drive process. The main reason is that more severe mass transfer effect and similar phase solubility effect have been caused by multicomponent…
The accurate quantification of the secondary porosity portion and the characterization of the macro-porous features seem achievable only through extensive logging services and lengthy coring campaigns. Traditional logging measurements have…
Underground natural gas storage is a cyclical technique that consists in the use of geological structures, such as depleted oil and gas reservoirs, aquifers, and salt domes, to store gas for future consumption as per demand. Although, underground gas…
Engineering and economic optimization of the value of water as an essential commodity and successful management of the overall water cycle are of great interests for the petroleum industry. The general objective is to maximize the benefits and safety…
Flow assurance has been a major problem in the development of a heavy oil field. It is not common that this issue has a multiplier effect from reservoir up to processing facilities, reducing productivity and in turn, increasing financial burden. Many…
Heavy oil reservoirs contain a large amount of hydrocarbons that are relatively difficult to produce and lift to the surface due to the very low mobility of these heavy oils. Even after producing these heavy oils, transportation problems arise as…
Engineering and economic optimization of the value of water as an essential commodity and successful management of the overall water cycle are of great interests for the petroleum industry. The general objective is to maximize the benefits and safety…
This work addresses a field-scale model, in which the equations of multiphase/multicomponent fluid flow and geomechanics were fully coupled, to simulate natural gas successive storage/recovery processes in an Iranian sandstone depleted gas reservoir.…
The chemical and stable isotopic compositions of 24 gas samples were investigated to determine the geochemistry and accumulation process of the Shenmu Gas Field (SGF), Ordos Basin, central China. Natural gas of the SGF includes both wet and dry gas…
The Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor used for distinguishing the oil movement offers detailed insights about the reservoir oil and is the key to quantifying the impact on improvement and the integrity and efficiency of the wells. The modified FBG…
Physical and numerical simulations of subsurface upgrading by use of solvent deasphalting (SSU-SDA) at laboratory conditions will be presented with a heavy crude oil and propane as a solvent. In this work, 1D propane-flood experiments were performed…
Various aspects of the oil fields in terms of microbial activity (souring, biocorrosion, etc.) and oil production (polymer flooding, etc.) have been evaluated through a variety of experiments. The primary step to study these properties in the…
Atlanta Field is a post-salt heavy-oil field located 185 km off the city of Rio de Janeiro, in Santos Basin, Brazil, at a water depth of approximately 1550 m. Atlanta, however, is not just another ultradeepwater heavy-oil field. Several additional…
The gas compressibility factor, also known as the deviation or Z-factor, is one of the most important parameters in the petroleum and chemical industries involving natural gas, as it is directly related to the density of a gas stream, hence its flow…
There is a very extensive amount of information and learnings from naturally fractured reservoirs (NFRs) around the world collected throughout several decades. This paper demonstrates how the information and learnings can be linked with tight and…
Lloydminster area that straddles Alberta and Saskatchewan border contains vast amounts of heavy oil deposits in thin unconsolidated formations. It is believed that the heavy oil resource volume is in the 50 to 70 billion bbl range which makes it a…
Lloydminster area that straddles Alberta and Saskatchewan border contains vast amounts of heavy oil deposits in thin unconsolidated formations. It is believed that the heavy oil resource volume is in the 50 to 70 billion bbl range which makes it a…
The microbiologically influenced‐corrosion (MIC) ‐related problems encountered in the water‐injection wells of the Rijn Oil Field, offshore the Netherlands, were assessed from multiple perspectives to determine the root cause of the corrosion and the…
The dispersion coefficient is a key physical parameter for enhanced gas recovery (EGR) and reflects the degree of mixing between the displacing-fluid CO2 and natural gas. However, no comprehensive overview of existing research on EGR dispersion…
Zero-dimensional carbon nanomaterials show intriguing potential in the field of unconventional oil resource development for reducing injection pressure and enhancing oil recovery. However, the complicated synthesis procedure, necessity for surfactant…
This paper is about the influence of safety regulations on the way major accidents are identified and managed. A case study is presented based on the Brazilian experience in subsea processing units. The oil and gas industry is devoting increased…
As an enhanced oil recovery method, the air injection process (AIP) has been applied for decades. However, deviations are still being identified between laboratory tests and field applications. One possible reason for such deviations is the formation…