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Investigating the vaporization mechanism's effect on interfacial tension during gas injection into an oil reservoir
In gas injection, which is one of the fascinating enhanced oil recovery techniques, the main mechanism involves decreasing interfacial tension (IFT)....
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Laboratory simulation of CO2 immiscible gas flooding and characterization of seepage resistance
CO 2 flooding can significantly improve the recovery rate, effectively recover crude oil, and has the advantages of energy saving and emission...
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Investigating the impacts of oil contamination on geotechnical properties of laterite soils
An oil leakage can result due to particular events such as tanker accident, pipeline corrosion, and natural and manmade disasters. This paper reports...
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Research and Application of Liquid Carbon Dioxide Composite Fracturing in W Oilfield
In response to the problems of unsatisfactory measures and formation damage caused by blockage during the transformation of tight reservoirs in W...
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Numerical Simulation and Test Investigation on Phase Transition and Thermal Cracking Process of Sandstone by Laser Drilling
Laser drilling is a new concept of petroleum exploitation technology, which is expected to bring a technological revolution in the field of petroleum...
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A Statistical Upscaling Workflow for Warm Solvent Injection Processes for Heterogeneous Heavy Oil Reservoirs
Hybrid solvent- and thermal-based methods offer an important potential for reducing the environmental impact and enhancing recoveries in heavy oil...
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Practical Guide for Petroleum Source Rock Interpretation
The progressive increase in the demand for unconventional resource assessments such as gas and oil shale, as well as shale gas and oil plays in the...
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Laboratory investigation of cyclic gas injection using CO2/N2 mixture to enhance heavy oil recovery in a pressure-depleted reservoir
CO 2 has strong abilities of oil swelling and viscosity reduction for heavy oil extraction, N 2 is a preferable gas media for pressure maintenance, and...
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A simple approach to dynamic material balance for a dry-gas reservoir
The dynamic material balance methodology can be used to estimate gas initially-in-place using only production and PVT data. With this methodology,...
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Design of optimal operational parameters for steam-alternating-solvent processes in heterogeneous reservoirs – A multi-objective optimization approach
Steam injection is a widely-used process for heavy oil and bitumen recovery. However, a significant drawback is the excessive energy requirement,...
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Hydrocarbon Reserves and Quality
A resource is the amount of a geologic commodity which maybe discovered or undiscovered. Whereas, reserved are that subgroup of resource that has...
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Organic Residues Analysis (ORA) in Archaeology
This chapter will provide an overview on the state of the art of the current practice and methodology of the analysis of the organic residues (ORA)...
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The combined effects of the minimum miscibility pressure and injection rate variations on recovery of co2 flooding in sandstone reservoir
One of the most effective enhanced oil recovery techniques is carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) flooding. It is because of its high oil recovery rate and...
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Re-assessment and tune-up gas condensate reservoir potential in Northern Iraq using material balance and reservoir simulation result techniques
The main parameter that drives oil industry contract investment and set up economic feasibility study for approving field development plan is...
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Source rock characterization for hydrocarbon generative potential and thermal maturity of Paleocene–Eocene sequences, Jaisalmer Basin, Rajasthan, India
Hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation have been going on in the Jaisalmer Basin, Western Rajasthan, India, for over a decade. The Cretaceous...
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Evaluating rheological properties and recovery performance of polymeric anionic surfactant (PSURFC) synthesized from non-edible seed oil on heavy crude recovery
This research focuses on heavy crude recovery using the dual recovery process of macromolecules formulated from environmentally friendly seed oil and...
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Huff-n-Puff (HNP) design for shale reservoirs using local dual-porosity, dual-permeability compositional simulation
Before implementing an HNP pilot in the field, reservoir studies are usually conducted, and compositional numerical simulations performed to assess...
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Genetic algorithm to optimize miscible water alternate CO2 flooding in heterogeneous clastic reservoir
To realize a successful CO 2 -WAG flooding, it is necessary to optimize the main parameters affecting the whole process. The process entails conducting...
