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 …

Quantitative evaluation of recovery mechanisms for huff-n-puff gas injection in unconventional reservoirs

BT Hoffman*, D Reichhardt - … , Denver, Colorado, 22-24 July 2019, 2019 - library.seg.org
Unconventional reservoirs such as the Eagle Ford have had tremendous success over the
last decade, and while wells come on at high rates, they drop quickly and the recovery …

Preloading depleted parent wells to avoid fracture hits: Some important design considerations

S Zheng, R Manchanda, D Gala… - SPE Drilling & Completion, 2021 - onepetro.org
Mitigating the negative impact of fracture hits on production from parent and child wells is
challenging. This work shows the impact of parent‐well depletion and repressurization on …

Investigating enhanced oil recovery in unconventional reservoirs based on field case review, laboratory, and simulation studies

J Zhao, L Jin, NA Azzolina, X Wan, X Yu… - Energy & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Aimed at advancing gas injection enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technologies in
unconventional reservoirs, this study comprised a series of activities to bridge the gap …

Compositional tracking of a huff-n-puff project in the Eagle Ford

ML Carlsen*, CH Whitson*, MM Dahouk… - … , Denver, Colorado, 22 …, 2019 - library.seg.org
The objective of this paper is to help understand the mechanisms behind gas-based
enhanced oil recovery (EOR) seen in actual field performance. This is accomplished by …

Experimental investigation of bypassed-oil recovery in tight reservoir rock using a two-step CO2 soaking strategy: Effects of fracture geometry

M Milad, R Junin, A Sidek, A Imqam, GA Alusta… - Upstream Oil and Gas …, 2023 - Elsevier
The potential of the CO 2 soaking procedure has been generally acknowledged as a valid
way to advance the tight rock oil recovery. Over the last decade, a significant number of Huff …

Use of reservoir simulation to forecast field EOR response-An eagle ford gas injection Huff-N-Puff application

E Kerr, KK Venepalli, K Patel, R Ambrose… - SPE Hydraulic …, 2020 - onepetro.org
Enhanced oil recovery in unconventional plays has been a focus of many E&P operators to
increase recovery factors. Conventional displacement-based secondary (eg water flooding) …

Multi-Pronged Diagnostics with Modeling to Improve Development Decisions-An Operator Case Study

E Kerr, K Haustveit, R Scofield, E Estrada… - SPE Hydraulic …, 2022 - onepetro.org
The drive for capital efficiency in unconventionals has encouraged operators to understand
subsurface interactions as effectively as possible. Combining multiple types of new and …

Gas Injection EOR in Eagle Ford Shale Gas Condensate Reservoirs

R Ganjdanesh, W Yu, MX Fiallos, E Kerr… - SPE/AAPG/SEG …, 2019 - onepetro.org
As the pressure drops below dew point in an unconventional gas-condensate reservoir, the
liquid drops out of gas phase and forms an oil phase in matrix and fracture. The volume of oil …

Numerical investigations on two-phase fluid flow in a fractured porous medium fully coupled with geomechanics

M Gudala, SK Govindarajan - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
A fully coupled two-phase fluid flow and geomechanical model has been used to investigate
the impact of injection fluid flow and geomechanics on reservoir pressure, effective stresses …