The middle Cretaceous Colorado Group of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin consists predominantly of mudstone deposited during major marine inundations interspersed with relatively thin sandstone and conglomerate beds. The Colorado Group petroleum system, containing a large portion of the light-medium oil and natural gas reserves within the Middle Jurassic to Cretaceous foreland basin succe...

Centre) have been advisors for me, and Norsk Hydro has provided the funding for the work. The thesis' main research part is the five papers A-E, and four of these have been published in conference proceedings and journals. The main focus of these papers is on issues related to reservoir simulation with improved reliability, and in particular discretization methods which should be valid for comp...

The exploration of offshore gas/oil has been moving to deepwater fields as big reservoirs have been found and technologies have improved. Presently, the most active areas in deepwater gas/oil field development are Africa and the GOM (Gulf of Mexico) in North America. There are many technological challenges in developing deepwater gas/oil fields such as: flow assurance, subsea systems, riser sys...

CO2 injection is an effective technique for improved oil recovery in light oil reservoirs, especially for water flooding abandoned reservoirs. In this study, the lower part of Es1 reservoirs in Pucheng oilfield was introduced as the target reservoir. By studying the minimum miscible pressure in CO2 flooding, the reservoir could achieve miscible flooding. Long core displacement experiments prove...

Abstract: The oil recovery factor from shale oil remains low, about 5 to 7% of the oil in place. How to increase oil recovery from shale oil reservoirs is attracting more and more attention. CO2 huff-and-puff was historically considered one of the best approaches to improve the oil rate. Most previous simulation studies have been based on dual porosity, but simulation results from dual-porosity...

It is well known that in addition to bound water the reservoir, formation mainly exists form of edge and bottom water. Fractured buried hill metamorphic rock reservoirs are generally bottom-water reservoirs. In fractured reservoirs, blocks cut by fractures oil distributed fractures. Due low capillary pressure fractures, oil-water transition zone also small. same fault block, there relatively un...

nowadays one of the most important energy sources is natural gas. by depletion of oil reservoirs in the world, natural gasâ will emerge as the future energy source for human life. one of the major concerns of gas suppliers is being able to supply this source of energy the entire year. this concern intensifies during more consuming seasons of the year when the demand for natural gas increases, r...

co2 injection is an effective technique for improved oil recovery in light oil reservoirs, especially for water flooding abandoned reservoirs. in this study, the lower part of es1 reservoirs in pucheng oilfield was introduced as the target reservoir. by studying the minimum miscible pressure in co2 flooding, the reservoir could achieve miscible flooding. long core displacement experiments prove...