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Alkharraa, H.S.H. (author), Wolf, K.H.A.A. (author), AlQuraishi, Abdulrahman (author), Mahmoud, Mohamed (author), AlDuhailan, Mohammed (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)The microscopic structure of low-permeability tight reservoirs is complicated due to diagenetic processes that impact the pore-fluid distribution and hydraulic properties of tight rocks. As part of an ongoing study of carbon dioxide-enhanced oil and gas recovery (CO2-EOR/EGR) and CO2 sequestration, this research article adopts an integrated...journal article 2023
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Boeije, C.S. (author), Verweij, Cas (author), Tripathi, Anushka (author), Weinzierl, Wolfgang (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author), Pluymakers, Anne (author)This report describes the activities performed within Task 1.2 “Report on gas solubility and degassing kinetic (type C)” until the end of month 40 of the REFLECT project. Two series of experiments have been carried out that assess the degassing process of type C geothermal fluids respectively in bulk and porous media. This has resulted in an...report 2023
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Alkharraa, H.S.H. (author), Wolf, K.H.A.A. (author), AlQuraishi, Abdulrahman (author), Al Abdrabalnabi, Ridha (author), Mahmoud, Mohamed (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)Carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) injection has been widely used in conventional reservoirs for enhanced oil recovery and CO<sub>2</sub> sequestration. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of CO<sub>2</sub> injection in tight reservoirs is limited due to diagenetic processes that impact displacement efficiency. This research work assesses the...journal article 2023
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Alkharraa, H.S.H. (author), Wolf, K.H.A.A. (author), AlQuraishi, Abdulrahman A. (author), Mahmoud, Mohamed A. (author), Deshenenkov, Ivan (author), AlDuhailan, Mohammed A. (author), Alarifi, Sulaiman A. (author), AlQahtani, Naif B. (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)A full petrographic and petrophysical characterization of tight sandstones has been conducted as part of ongoing study of Carbon Dioxide Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery (CO<sub>2</sub>-EOR/EGR) and CO<sub>2</sub>sequestration. The main purpose of this study is to give novel perception into the interplay of the rock characteristics and fluid...journal article 2023
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Kamel Targhi, Elahe (author), Emami Niri, Mohammad (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)Cross-linked polymer gel is widely used in the oil and gas industry to block high permeability conduits and reduce water cut. The complex nature of this fluid, especially regarding flow in porous media, makes its numerical simulation very time-consuming. This study presents an approach to designing an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model...journal article 2023
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Mirzaie Yegane, M. (author), van Wieren, Thijs (author), Fadili, Ali (author), van Batenburg, Diederik (author), Leblanc, Thierry (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)CO<sub>2</sub> flow in porous media is vital for both enhanced oil recovery and underground carbon storage. For improving CO<sub>2</sub> mobility control and thus improved reservoir sweep efficiency, Water-Alternating-Gas (WAG) injection has often been applied. The effectiveness of WAG diminishes, however, due to the presence of micro-scale...conference paper 2023
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Alkharraa, H.S.H. (author), Wolf, K.H.A.A. (author), Kwak, Hyung T. (author), Deshenenkov, Ivan S. (author), AlDuhailan, Mohammed A. (author), Mahmoud, Mohamed A. (author), Arifi, Suliman A. (author), AlQahtani, Naif B. (author), AlQuraishi, Abdulrahman A. (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)Macro-, meso-, micro-pore systems combined with clay content are critical for fluid flow behavior in tight sandstone formations. This study investigates the impact of clay mineralogy on pore systems in tight rocks. Three outcrop samples were selected based on their comparative petrophysical parameters (Bandera, Kentucky, and Scioto). Our...conference paper 2023
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Boeije, C.S. (author), Verweij, C.B. (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author), Pluymakers, Anne (author)The long-term performance of the reservoir is essential in order to ensure competitive life-cycle cost of the geothermal installations. Geothermal fluids are often saturated with gasses such as CO2 and N2. With their extraction from the reservoir, pressure and temperature decrease towards the extraction well. This disturbs the state of...conference paper 2022
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Oliveira de Almeida, S. (author), Chapiro, Grigori (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)Electromagnetic (EM) heating is an emerging method for storing renewable energy, such as photovoltaic solar and wind electric power, into aquifers. We investigate how the captured energy increases the temperature of a prototypical deep aquifer for a six-month period and then to which extent the stored energy can be recovered during the...journal article 2022
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Mirzaie Yegane, M. (author), Boukany, P. (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)Due to increased energy demand, it is vital to enhance the recovery from existing oilfields. Polymer flooding is the most frequently used chemical enhanced oil recovery (cEOR) method in field applications that increases the oil sweep and displacement efficiencies. In recent years, there has been growing interest to assess the use of polymer...journal article 2022
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Xu, Ke (author), Mehmani, Yashar (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)Porous materials have high specific surface area and complicated morphology, which dramatically amplifies interfacially driven processes leading to complex transport behaviors. Over the past decade, significant improvements in experimental and computational tools have enabled the direct probing of pore-scale physics. Numerous findings have been...contribution to periodical 2022
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Alsultan, A.H.A. (author), Shaoul, Josef R. (author), Park, Jason (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)Condensate banking is a major issue in the production operations of gas condensate reservoirs. Increase in liquid saturation in the near-wellbore zone due to pressure decline below dew point, decreases well deliverability and the produced condensate-gas ratio (CGR). This paper investigates the effects of condensate banking on the...conference paper 2022
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Boeije, C.S. (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author), Pluymakers, Anne (author)The exsolution of gas molecules from gas–liquid mixtures plays a significant role in a wide range of applications from industrial processes such as metal casting to subsurface flow of oil or geothermal waters. This study aims to improve the understanding of the conditions under which free gas bubbles start forming in CO2–water mixtures. The...journal article 2022
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Fadili, Ali (author), Murtaza, Ali (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)Water injection into the subsurface, inherent in improved hydrocarbon recovery and extraction of geothermal energy, often suffers from injectivity decline, even when water carries only nano-sized particles at low concentrations. This study investigates the propagation of such nano-sized particles experimentally and by modelling. Water with...journal article 2022
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Tchistiakov, A. A. (author), Kottsova, A. (author), Shvalyuk, E. V. (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)This article describes the effects of different physico-chemical factors on formation damage caused by migration of in situ clay particles as a result of water injection into a clastic reservoir.journal article 2022
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Hosseini-Nasab, Seyed Mojtaba (author), Rezaee, Mohammad (author), Taal, Martin (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)One of the main reasons for foam flooding enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is mobilizing oil left in the reservoir after primary recovery (depletion by pressure difference solely) and water flooding. However, expanding the infrastructure for certain foam EOR projects might be necessary as more wells are required, or a different well pattern is...journal article 2022
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Zitha, P.L.J. (author), Guo, H. (author)Capillary forces result in the trapping of the oleic phase in porous media even after extensive flushing with brine. Alkali-surfactant-polymer formulations drastically diminish capillary forces, whereas adding polymer to the water phase increases viscous forces, resulting in highly efficient extraction of the residual oil. However, by virtue...journal article 2022
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Kottsova, Anna K. (author), Mirzaie Yegane, M. (author), Tchistiakov, Alexei A. (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)We investigate the effect of pH on external hematite colloidal particles entrapment and remobilization by core-flood experiments combined with X ray computed tomography. Suspensions of calibrated hematite colloidal particles were injected into Bentheimer sandstones sample, composed mainly of well-sorted quartz and small clay fraction (up to 1...journal article 2021
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Mirzaie Yegane, M. (author), Schmidt, Julia (author), Dugonjic-Bilic, Fatima (author), Gerlach, Benjamin (author), Boukany, P. (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)We examine the role of preshearing on the flow properties of polymer solutions containing essentially an acrylamide-based copolymer obtained from an emulsified polymer emulsion inverted by a surfactant. The polymer solutions were presheared using three methods: (1) a Buddeberg disperser, (2) an Ultra-Turrax disperser, and (3) pressure-driven...journal article 2021
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Janssen, M.T.G. (author), Torres Mendez, Fabian A. (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)History-matching of core-flood experimental data through numerical modeling is a powerful tool to get insight into the relevant physical parameters and mechanisms that control fluid flow in enhanced oil recovery processes. We conducted a mechanistic numerical simulation study aiming at modeling previously performed water-alternating-gas and...journal article 2020