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The U.S. Deepwater Gulf of Mexico (DGOM) area that has some the most prolific oil reservoirs is still awaiting development a viable enhanced recovery (EOR) process. Without it, DGOM will remain severely untapped. Exorbitant well costs, in excess $200 million, preclude having extensive injection patterns, commonly used EOR design frameworks. Aside from even operationally waterflooding met with s...

One of the mostly used enhanced oil recovery methods is the injection of water or gas under pressure to maintain or reverse the declining pressure in a reservoir. Several parameters should be optimized in a fluid injection process. The usual optimizing methods evaluate several scenarios to find the best solution. Since it is required to run the reservoir simulator hundreds of times, the process...

Nanoporous polymer films have been prepared using immiscible blends of polyetherimide (PEI) and poly(caprolactone diol) (PCLD). The films were prepared by spin-coating from a common solvent – dichloromethane (DCM). To create the nanoporous films, PCLD was removed by immersing the films in acetone, which dissolves PCLD only. Field emission scanning electron microscopy was used to study the porou...

Carbon dioxide (CO2) flooding is one of the most important and used enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method because it does not only increase efficiency but also as an underground CO2 storage. It considered a very complex involves knowing fluid phase behavior with different concentrations. should be noted that swelling (volume increase) dissolution carbon has significant effect on recovery. When thi...

Different recovery mechanisms are activated during the production from reservoirs. Wells sometimes are kept with the injection. Therefore the evaluation of injection indices depended on material injection, seems to be necessary. This study is going to determine the drive indices for a reservoir by making a model using Eclipse. The model consists a gas cap and aquifer, in which there is an injec...

With the increasing of the environmental concerns, carbon dioxide (CO2) as an alternative refrigerant has been investigated intensively. In this study, the heating performance of a transcritical CO2 heat pump system with a twinrotary compressor was investigated. The transcritical CO2 heat pump with gas injection was tested by varying gas injection ratio and outdoor temperature at the optimum re...

the rapid growth in natural gas consumption has increased the need for gas storage, in particular in the form of injection into depleted reservoirs. also, co2 sequestration into the depleted reservoirs has attracted a large attention recently. however, it is important to ensure that the injection pressure is maintained below a certain limit to avoid unsealing the cap rock or reactivation of any...