A Review on the Application of Enhanced Oil/Gas Recovery through CO2 Sequestration

Abstract

Global warming is considered as one of very important problems in the last few years. This phenomenon is caused primarily by increase in greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO 2). Natural events and human activities are believed to be the principal sources of this problem. A promising long-term solution for mitigating global heating is to inject CO 2 into oil field geological formations for combination between CO 2 sequestration and enhanced oil recovery. This chapter aims to give an extensive literature survey and examines research papers that focus on EOR-CO 2 processes and projects that have been tested in the field.

Recent developments in CO 2 capture, utilization, related materials, and challenges

“…Finally, the oil is separated and stored in tanks. Continuous gas injection (CGI) and water alternating gas (WAG) are two typical CO 2 EOR procedures, with the latter yielding greater oil recovery 166 . Recently, the industry facing several different issues to use EOR such as the un‐homogenous shape of the rock formation which reduces the effectiveness of CO 2 flooding.…”

“…Continuous gas injection (CGI) and water alternating gas (WAG) are two typical CO 2 EOR procedures, with the latter yielding greater oil recovery. 166 Recently, the industry facing several different issues to use EOR such as the un-homogenous shape of the rock formation which reduces the effectiveness of CO 2 flooding. However, CO 2 EOR is a potential enhanced oil/gas recovery method that may be used in a variety of reservoirs.…”

A Review of CO2 Storage in View of Safety and Cost-Effectiveness

“…CO2 capture and utilization [13] Review of the application of CO2 for enhanced oil and gas recovery [14] Review of CO2 capture and reuse technologies, highlighting the strategies of CO2 capture in variety of scenarios, and the state of the art for CO2 utilization [15] Review of CO2 capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) in Chinese Academy of Sciences, highlighting the strategies for CCUS in China [16] Review of the property impacts of CCS, highlighting the effect of uncertainties in thermal-physical properties on the design of components and processes in CCS Circle size is proportional to the CO 2 capture capacity, and the color indicates different stages of the lifecycle of the project (data from [10]).…”

“…CO 2 capture and utilization [13] Review of the application of CO 2 for enhanced oil and gas recovery [14] Review of CO 2 capture and reuse technologies, highlighting the strategies of CO 2 capture in variety of scenarios, and the state of the art for CO 2 utilization [15] Review of CO 2 capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) in Chinese Academy of Sciences, highlighting the strategies for CCUS in China [16] Review of the property impacts of CCS, highlighting the effect of uncertainties in thermal-physical properties on the design of components and processes in CCS [17] Review of CCS highlighting the CO 2 capture technologies, the pilot plants, and the economic and legal aspects of CCS [18] Review of CO 2 enhanced coal bed methane recovery, highlighting the CO 2 storage trials in the San Juan Basin in USA, and the estimation of CO 2 storage capacity in coal seams [19] Review of CCUS technologies highlighting the engineering projects and their developments in China [20] Review of CCS highlighting the findings obtained in CCS operational projects including the technologies of CO 2 capture, separation, transport, and storage…”

Advances in the analytical methods for the determination of fluorinated aromatic carboxylic acids in aqueous matrices: A review

“…For maximum oil recovery, the reservoir fluid is mobilized by the flooding at the injector well towards the producer well [4] and the producer well is sampled periodically to analyze the concentration of tracers (Figure 1). [11] Problems such as mini fractures, faults, and high permeability streaks, result in poor connectivity between the injector and producer well [5].…”