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MODI, ANIKET (author)CO2 flooding is a widely employed method for enhancing oil recovery. However, it faces challenges stemming from differences in viscosity and density between oil and CO2, leading to poor sweep efficiency. This can result in issues such as viscous fingering, channelling, and gravity segregation, causing premature breakthroughs and excessive gas...master thesis 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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van Wieren, Thijs (author)In order to supply the demand of oil, enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques are nowadays widely applied in the oil recovery industry to maximize reservoir sweep efficiencies. CO2-EOR method has been largely used in the petroleum industry for several decades, which can contribute to the reduction of global greenhouse gas emission through CO2...master thesis 2022
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Yu, G. (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)Foam injection is a promising means of reducing the relative mobility of gas, and hence improving the sweep efficiency of gas, in CO<sub>2</sub> and H<sub>2</sub> storage, soil-contaminant removal in aquifer remediation, enhanced oil recovery, and matrix-acid well stimulation. Theory (Rossen and Gauglitz, 1990; Ashoori et al., 2012) and...journal article 2022
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Battashi, M. (author), Farajzadeh, R. (author), Bimani, A. (author), Al Abri, M. (author), Mjeni, R. (author), Karpan, V. (author), Fadili, A. (author), van Wunnik, J. (author)This paper introduces new oil recovery mechanisms for oil recovery by polymer injection in heavy oil reservoirs with strong bottom aquifers. Due to unfavorable mobility ratio between aquifer water and oil and the development of the sharp cones significant amount of oil remains unswept. To overcome these issues, for the case demonstrated in...journal article 2022
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Yu, G. (author)Creating a gas-liquid foam means dispersing gas as individual bubbles in an aqueous solution, in which each gas bubble is separated by liquid films or lamella. The most common form of liquid foam (as opposed to solid foams, like polymer sponges) seen in day-to-day life is bulk foam. This refers to a foam that rests in a large container (or flows...doctoral thesis 2021
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Li, K. (author), Wolf, K.H.A.A. (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)By trapping gas, foam can improve the sweep efficiency in enhanced oil recovery. In this study, to understand gas trapping in fractures, we have conducted experiments in a model fracture with a hydraulic aperture of 80 μm. One wall of the fracture is rough, and the other wall is smooth. The fracture is made of two glass plates and the direct...conference paper 2021
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Musa, Tagwa A. (author), Ibrahim, Ahmed F. (author), Nasr-El-Din, Hisham A. (author), Hassan, A.M. (author)Chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes are usually used as additives for hydrocarbon production due to its simplicity and relatively reasonable additional production costs. Polymer flooding uses polymer solutions to increase oil recovery by decreasing the water/oil mobility ratio by increasing the viscosity of the displacing water....journal article 2021
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Farajzadeh, R. (author), Eftekhari, A. A. (author), Dafnomilis, I. (author), Lake, L. W. (author), Bruining, J. (author)This work uses pilot examples of CO<sub>2</sub> enhanced oil recovery to analyze whether and under which circumstances it is exergetically favorable to sequester CO<sub>2</sub> through enhanced oil recovery. We find that the net storage efficiency (ratio between the stored and captured CO<sub>2</sub>) of the carbon capture and storage (CCS)...journal article 2020
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Hassan, A.M. (author), Ayoub, M. (author), Eissa, M. (author), Bruining, J. (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)This contribution focuses on surface complexes in the calcite-brine-surfactant system. This is relevant for the recovery of oil when using a new hybrid enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method, which combines smart-water (i.e., ionically modified brine) and foam-flooding (SWAF) of light oil with dissolved carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) at high...journal article 2020
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Hussain, A.A.A. (author), Vincent-Bonnieu, S.Y.F. (author), Kamarul Bahrim, R. Z. (author), Pilus, R. M. (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)As foam is injected into an oil reservoir, the region near an injector can become oil-free due to the relatively high capillary number. Foam created in this region encounters oil further out in the reservoir. The impact of oil on foam in porous media is usually investigated by co-injecting surfactant, gas and oil, or by injecting pre...journal article 2020
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Yáñez, Edgar (author), Ramirez, Andrea (author), Núñez-López, Vanessa (author), Castillo, Edgar (author), Faaij, André (author)The use of CO<sub>2</sub> for enhanced oil recovery (CO<sub>2</sub>-EOR) is a promising alternative for reducing the cost of carbon capture and storage (CCS). In this study the techno-economic potential of integrated CCS-EOR projects for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the Colombian oil industry is estimated. For this purpose, a...journal article 2020
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Torres Mendez, Fabian (author)Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (CEOR) methods can increase the oil recovery of a reservoir to more than 60% of the volumes originally in-situ. Typical oil recoveries range from 20% to 40% of OIIP under traditional primary and secondary recovery stages. The understanding of the mechanisms that control such complex processes is essential...master thesis 2019
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Hussain, A.A.A. (author)Foam flooding can be applied in soil-remediation techniques or for improving oil recovery processes in petroleum reservoirs. There are models which aim to predict the behaviour of foam in presence of oil in bulk and in porous media, however these models are not very reliable. In this work we investigate different ways in which a specific crude...doctoral thesis 2019
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Hassan, A.M. (author), Ayoub, M. (author), Eissa, M. (author), Musa, T. (author), Bruining, J. (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)This paper deals with on line viscosity measurements using integrated circuit technology, and is building on a previous paper on the use radio frequency identifier (RFID) technology for determining dielectric coefficients. It is asserted that the progress in RFID technology and integrated circuits, in particular in micro–electro–mechanical...journal article 2019
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Hassan, A.M. (author), Ayoub, M. (author), Eissa, M. (author), Musa, T. (author), Bruining, J. (author), Farajzadeh, R. (author)It has been estimated that 17% of the recovered hydrocarbon exergy in oil fields [1]is spent on fluid handling and recovery costs. Therefore, improving the efficiency of oil production can give an some contribution to more efficient energy usage and therefore minimizing to some extent the carbon footprint. By way of example we present in this...journal article 2019
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Hussain, A.A.A. (author), Vincent-Bonnieu, S.Y.F. (author), Kamarul Bahrim, R. Z. (author), Pilus, R. M. (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)Dispersed and solubilized oil can impact bulk foam stability differently. Though aromatic components are more soluble in water than straight-chain aliphatic components, solubilized aromatics do not necessarily impact the stability of foam in bulk or porous media, whereas straight-chain aliphatic components can have a detrimental impact (Bergeron...journal article 2019
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Gong, J. (author), Vincent-Bonnieu, S.Y.F. (author), Kamarul Bahrim, R. Z. (author), Che Mamat, C. A.N.B. (author), Groenenboom, J. (author), Farajzadeh, R. (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)Surfactant-alternating-gas (SAG) is a favored method of foam injection, in part because of excellent gas injectivity. However, liquid injectivity is usually very poor in SAG. We report a core-flood study of liquid injectivity under conditions like those near an injection well in SAG application in the field, i.e., after a prolonged period of gas...journal article 2019
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Zeng, Yongchao (author), Farajzadeh, R. (author), Biswal, Sibani L. (author), Hirasaki, George J. (author)This paper probes the transport of CO2 soluble surfactant for foaming in porous media. We numerically investigate the effect of surfactant partitioning between the aqueous phase and the gaseous phase on foam transport for subsurface applications when the surfactant is injected in the CO2 phase. A 2-D reservoir simulation is developed to quantify...journal article 2019
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Boeije, C.S. (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)Foam is used in gas-injection EOR processes to reduce the mobility of gas, resulting in greater volumetric sweep. SAG (Surfactant Alternating Gas) is a preferred method of injection as it results in greater injectivity in the field, but designing a successful process requires knowledge of foaming performance at very high foam qualities (gas...journal article 2018