A comprehensive review on enhanced oil recovery by water alternating gas (WAG) injection

S Afzali, N Rezaei, S Zendehboudi - Fuel, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Water-Alternating-Gas (WAG) injection is a relatively mature oil recovery technique
in hydrocarbon reservoirs that has long attracted the interest of the oil and gas industry due …

Prediction of entropy and Gibbs free energy for nitrogen

CS Jia, LH Zhang, XL Peng, JX Luo, YL Zhao… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
Nitrogen (N 2) is widely used in oil and gas industry. We report two new efficient closed-form
representations for the molar entropy and Gibbs free energy of pure gaseous substances. A …

On the CO2 storage potential of cyclic CO2 injection process for enhanced oil recovery

A Abedini, F Torabi - Fuel, 2014 - Elsevier
In this study, the potential of cyclic CO 2 injection process was examined for CO 2 storage
and enhanced oil recovery. For this purpose, a detailed phase behavior study on the light …

Full Characterization of CO2–Oil Properties On-Chip: Solubility, Diffusivity, Extraction Pressure, Miscibility, and Contact Angle

A Sharbatian, A Abedini, ZB Qi, D Sinton - Analytical chemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Carbon capture, storage, and utilization technologies target a reduction in net CO2
emissions to mitigate greenhouse gas effects. The largest such projects worldwide involve …

Prediction of enthalpy for nitrogen gas

M Deng, CS Jia - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2018 - epjplus.epj.org
Based on the modified Rosen-Morse oscillator in the description of the internal vibration of a
molecule, we propose an explicit representation of molar enthalpy for gaseous diatomic …

Effect of foam and WAG (water alternating gas) injection on performance of thin oil rim reservoirs

OA Olabode, OD Orodu, SO Isehunwa… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2018 - Elsevier
A design of experiment was used to create oil rim models from a wider range of reservoir,
operational and reservoir architecture parameters. A response surface model was …

Improving heavy oil recovery using a top-driving, CO2-assisted hot-water flooding method in deep and pressure-depleted reservoirs

L Shi, P Liu, D Shen, P Liu, C Xi, Y Zhang - Journal of Petroleum Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The primary recovery of conventional heavy oil (with viscosity< 150 mPa s) in deep
reservoirs often has a low recovery factor (RF) and high-pressure drawdown. It is important …

Parametric Study of the Cyclic CO2 Injection Process in Light Oil Systems

A Abedini, F Torabi - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2013 - ACS Publications
Performance of cyclic CO2 injection as an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technique in a light
crude oil system was experimentally investigated. Series of cyclic CO2 injection tests were …

Water-based nanofluid-alternating-CO2 injection for enhancing heavy oil recovery: Considering oil-nanofluid emulsification

C Cao, Z Song, S Su, Z Tang, Z Xie, X Chang… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
The efficiency of CO 2 water-alternating-gas (WAG) flooding is highly limited in low-
permeability heavy oil reservoirs due to the viscosifying action of W/O emulsification and …

Best practices for laboratory evaluation of immiscible WAG

YC Itriago, M Araujo, J Molinaris - SPE Improved Oil Recovery …, 2018 - onepetro.org
Abstract Immiscible Water Alternating Gas (IWAG) is an EOR process whereby water and
immiscible gas are alternately injected into a reservoir to provide better sweep efficiency and …