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Laboratory Studies on Immiscible CO₂ Injection: A Data Analysis and Screening Criteria
54th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium
  • Sherif Fakher
  • Youssef Elgahawy
  • Hesham Abdelaal
  • Abdulmohsin Imqam, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

Immiscible carbon dioxide (CO2) injection is an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) used to increase oil recovery from heavy oil reservoirs. This method has many advantages including the ability of the CO2 to interact with the crude oil and reduce its viscosity to mobilize the crude oil by increasing its mobility. Understanding the conditions at which immiscible CO2 injection can be injected into oil reservoirs and how it can interact with the crude oil to mobilize it is extremely important in optimizing this EOR process and also to help increase the overall effectiveness in both oil recovery and CO2 storage. This research performs a data analysis on the laboratory studies conducted using immiscible CO2 injection using more than 1000 experimental data points. The research then develops a screening criterion based on the data analysis developed in order to be able to function as a guideline to the application of immiscible CO2 injection in laboratory studies. The histograms developed include crude oil properties, reservoir thermodynamic conditions, injected fluid conditions, and CO2-Oil interactions. The data analysis was performed on all core and porous media type.

Meeting Name
54th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium (2020: Jun. 28-Jul. 1, Virtual)
Department(s)
Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
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Citation
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text
Language(s)
English
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© 2020 American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
7-1-2020
Publication Date
01 Jul 2020
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Citation Information
Sherif Fakher, Youssef Elgahawy, Hesham Abdelaal and Abdulmohsin Imqam. "Laboratory Studies on Immiscible CO₂ Injection: A Data Analysis and Screening Criteria" 54th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium (2020)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/abdulmohsin-imqam/64/