A technical review of CO2 for enhanced oil recovery in unconventional oil reservoirs

C Sambo, N Liu, R Shaibu, AA Ahmed… - Geoenergy Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Unconventional oil reservoirs have become an increasingly essential resource for energy in
recent years. Despite the massive oil reserves in these reservoirs, as well as the current …

Research of steam injection in-situ production technology to enhance unconventional oil and gas recovery: A review

Y Pan, W Qiao, D Chi, Z Li, Y Shu - Journal of Analytical and Applied …, 2024 - Elsevier
With the rapid in energy consumption today, unconventional oil and gas have become
popular resources for many countries to explore, and the development of unconventional oil …

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 …

CO2 injection for enhanced oil recovery in Bakken tight oil reservoirs

W Yu, HR Lashgari, K Wu, K Sepehrnoori - Fuel, 2015 - Elsevier
The combination of horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing have boosted the
oil production from Bakken tight oil reservoirs. However, the primary oil recovery factor is …

Huff-n-puff technology for enhanced oil recovery in shale/tight oil reservoirs: Progress, gaps, and perspectives

M Milad, R Junin, A Sidek, A Imqam, M Tarhuni - Energy & Fuels, 2021 - ACS Publications
In recent times, particularly in the 21st century, there has been an alarming increase in the
demand for global energy, along with continuous depletion in conventional oil reservoirs …

Evaluation of carbon dioxide storage and miscible gas EOR in shale oil reservoirs

HR Lashgari, A Sun, T Zhang, GA Pope, LW Lake - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new perspective on modeling of CO 2 and miscible gas injection into
shale oil plays for potential enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and CO 2 storage. Our major …

Simulation Study of CO2-EOR in Tight Oil Reservoirs with Complex Fracture Geometries

P Zuloaga-Molero, W Yu, Y Xu, K Sepehrnoori, B Li - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The recent development of tight oil reservoirs has led to an increase in oil production in the
past several years due to the progress in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing …

Reservoir simulation and optimization of Huff-and-Puff operations in the Bakken Shale

D Sanchez-Rivera, K Mohanty, M Balhoff - Fuel, 2015 - Elsevier
A numerical reservoir model was created to optimize Huff-and-Puff operations in the Bakken
Shale. Huff-and-Puff is an enhanced oil recovery method in which a well alternates between …

Compositional Simulation of CO2 Huff 'n' Puff in Eagle Ford Tight Oil Reservoirs With CO2 Molecular Diffusion, Nanopore Confinement, and Complex Natural …

W Yu, Y Zhang, A Varavei, K Sepehrnoori… - … Reservoir Evaluation & …, 2019 - onepetro.org
Although numerous studies proved the potential of carbon dioxide (CO2) huff'n'puff,
relatively few models exist to comprehensively and efficiently simulate CO2 huff'n'puff in a …

Rapid and Simple Capillary-Rise/Vanishing Interfacial Tension Method To Determine Crude Oil Minimum Miscibility Pressure: Pure and Mixed CO2, Methane, and …

SB Hawthorne, DJ Miller, L Jin, CD Gorecki - Energy & Fuels, 2016 - ACS Publications
We report here a simplification of the capillary-rise/vanishing interfacial tension (IFT) method
to measure minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) based on only requiring knowledge of …