Cyclic gas injection in low-permeability oil reservoirs: progress in modeling and experiments

H Emami-Meybodi, M Ma, F Zhang, Z Rui, A Rezaeyan… - SPE Journal, 2024 - onepetro.org
Cyclic gas injection effectively enhances oil recovery for low-permeability oil reservoirs.
Numerous theoretical, mathematical, and laboratory investigations have attempted to unlock …

Minireview of Microscopic CO2 Interactions with Fluids and Minerals in Shale: Advances and Outlook

Z Wang, K Ding, T Liu, J Yao, H Sun, Y Yang… - Energy & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Shale is featured by nanometer pores and ultralow permeability. Enhancing shale oil
recovery after primary production is challenging as a result of the low injectivity of water …

Comprehensive outlook into critical roles of pressure, volume, and temperature (PVT) and phase behavior on the exploration and development of shale oil

B Liu, S Gao, E Mohammadian… - Energy & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Shale oil has received increasing attention as an essential replacement for conventional oil
resources. Shale oil recovery is a complex process controlled by interactions of many factors …

Inhomogeneous fluid transport modeling in dual-scale porous media considering fluid–solid interactions

M Ma, H Emami-Meybodi - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
Dynamics of fluid transport in ultratight reservoirs such as organic-rich shales differ from
those in high-permeable reservoirs due to the complex nature of fluid transport and fluid …

Studying key processes related to CO 2 underground storage at the pore scale using high pressure micromodels

S Morais, A Cario, N Liu, D Bernard… - Reaction Chemistry & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, we present a general overview of the current progress in pore scale
experimentations related to CO2 geological storage. In such processes occurring in porous …

Direct Measurement of Minimum Miscibility Pressure of Decane and CO2 in Nanoconfined Channels

B Bao, J Feng, J Qiu, S Zhao - ACS omega, 2020 - ACS Publications
Determining gas and oil minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) plays a vital role in the
enhanced oil recovery. Injecting gases above the MMP into oil reservoirs leads to a …

Phase Behavior of Methane/n-Butane Binary Mixtures in Organic Nanopores under Bulk Vapor Conditions

J Cao, Y Liang, Y Masuda, K Tamura, T Ishiwata… - Energy & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanopores can change the phase boundary of fluid mixtures. A recent study has reported
that the bubble-point pressure of binary mixtures in nanopores can be merged with the dew …

Vapor-liquid equilibrium and criticality of CO2 and n-heptane in shale organic pores by the Monte Carlo simulation

X Xing, Q Feng, W Zhang, S Wang - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Thanks to the application of CO 2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technology in shale oil
production, phase behavior of CO 2 and alkanes in nanopores has received considerable …

Hydrocarbon mixture and CO2 adsorptions in A nanopore-bulk multiscale system in relation to CO2 enhanced shale gas recovery

Y Wang, Z Jin - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Thanks to the continuous depletion of conventional gas reservoirs, shale gas plays an
important role to meet the global natural gas demand. The CO 2'huff-n-puff'process has …

A pore-network-based upscaling framework for the nanoconfined phase behavior in shale rocks

S Chen, J Jiang, B Guo - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
The presence of extensive nanopores in organic-rich shale introduces unique
thermodynamic fluid phase behaviors owing to large pressure differentials across fluid-fluid …