Advances in improved/enhanced oil recovery technologies for tight and shale reservoirs

L Wang, Y Tian, X Yu, C Wang, B Yao, S Wang… - Fuel, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a comprehensive review of the technical progress as well as updated
knowledge and understandings of IOR/EOR technologies for tight oil reservoirs. Critical and …

Nanotechnology for the oil and gas industry–an overview of recent progress

Z Zhe, A Yuxiu - Nanotechnology Reviews, 2018 - degruyter.com
Nanotechnology has brought about revolutionary innovations in many aspects of the oil and
gas industry. Nanotechnology generates nanomaterials, which are natural or synthetic …

Static and dynamic behavior of CO2 enhanced oil recovery in shale reservoirs: Experimental nanofluidics and theoretical models with dual-scale nanopores

K Zhang, N Jia, S Li, L Liu - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Understanding and controlling confined CO 2 fluids in nanopores is at the heart of the CO 2
enhanced oil recovery in shale reservoirs. Here, for the first time, qualitative and quantitative …

Impact of capillary pressure and nanopore confinement on phase behaviors of shale gas and oil

JY Zuo, X Guo, Y Liu, S Pan, J Canas, OC Mullins - Energy & fuels, 2018 - ACS Publications
In this paper, a general framework of theoretical models and algorithm is developed to
predict phase envelopes (saturation points) and quality lines of shale gas and oil in …

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 …

Comparison of Peng-Robinson equation of state with capillary pressure model with engineering density-functional theory in describing the phase behavior of confined …

Y Liu, Z Jin, HA Li - SPE Journal, 2018 - onepetro.org
Summary The Peng-Robinson equation of state (PR-EOS)(Robinson and Peng 1978) with
capillary effect has been used extensively to describe the phase behavior of hydrocarbons …

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 …

Nanoscale Three-Phase Transport in a Shale Pore Network with Phase Change and Solid–Fluid Interaction

W Song, B Yao, H Sun, Y Yang, J Zhong, J Yao - Energy & Fuels, 2023 - ACS Publications
The complexities of three-phase transport in nanoporous shale are expressed in terms of
strong solid–fluid intermolecular interaction and complex phase change in nanoscale …

Hydrocarbon mixture phase behavior in multi-scale systems in relation to shale oil recovery: The effect of pore size distributions

Y Zhao, Z Jin - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Shale media contains a large amount of nano-scale pores, with their total pore volume
comparable to that of the connected macropores and natural/hydraulic fractures (bulk) …