Carbon dioxide has been used commercially to recover oil from reservoir by enhanced oil recovery technologies for over 40 years. Currently, the CO2 flood is the second most applied enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes in the world behind steam flood. Water alternating gas (WAG) injection has been a popular method to control mobility and improve volumetric sweep efficiency for CO2 flooding. The...

A computer simulation model is used to study the density profile and flow of a miscible gaseous fluid mixture consisting of differing constituent masses (mA = mB/3) through an open matrix. The density profile is found to decay with the height ∝ exp(−mA(B)h), consistent with the barometric height law. The flux density shows a power-law increase ∝ (pc − p) μ with μ ≃ 2.3 at the porosity 1− p abov...

We establish the existence of a solution to a non-linearly coupled elliptic-parabolic system of PDEs describing the single-phase, miscible displacement of one incompressible fluid by another in a porous medium. We consider a velocity-dependent diffusion-dispersion tensor and model the action of injection and production wells by measures on the domain. We obtain the solution by passing to the li...