Day 2 Tue, September 29, 2015 2015
DOI: 10.2118/175034-ms
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Enhanced Oil Recovery in Liquid-Rich Shale Reservoirs: Laboratory to Field

Abstract: Production of tight oil from shale reservoirs in North America reduces oil imports and has better economics than natural gas. Consequently, there is a strong interest in oil production from Bakken, Eagle Ford, and Niobrara. However, oil recovery factor for Bakken remains low, which is about four to six percent of the oil in place. Even with this low oil recovery factor, Bakken recoverable reserves are estimated to be 7.4 billion barrels; thus, a large volume of oil will remain unrecovered. This low level of oi… Show more

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“…The fracture diagnostic technologies like microseismic 14 15 16 and the recent developed fracture propagation models 17 18 19 indicate that the fracture geometry is complex and non-planar. Although many efforts in the literature are dedicated to modeling CO 2 -EOR in tight oil reservoirs 20 21 22 23 , they made an assumption of simple bi-wing planar fracture geometry without considering the more-realistic complex fracture geometry. Even though the complex fracture networks provide the primary conduits for oil production, they might be detrimental to CO 2 flooding effectiveness 24 .…”
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“…The fracture diagnostic technologies like microseismic 14 15 16 and the recent developed fracture propagation models 17 18 19 indicate that the fracture geometry is complex and non-planar. Although many efforts in the literature are dedicated to modeling CO 2 -EOR in tight oil reservoirs 20 21 22 23 , they made an assumption of simple bi-wing planar fracture geometry without considering the more-realistic complex fracture geometry. Even though the complex fracture networks provide the primary conduits for oil production, they might be detrimental to CO 2 flooding effectiveness 24 .…”
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“…Our model utilizes the diffusion-dominant mechanism, as will be seen in the equations below. The diffusion mechanism is well studied and understood as, Kovscek et al, 2008, Vega et al, 2010, Hoteit et al, 2011and Alharthy et al, 2015 discuss the diffusion-driven IOR mechanism in their work.…”
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“…By mixing seawater with fresh water in nanochannels accompanied with ion adsorption, several devices/processes are designed for harvesting blue energy 10,11 . Other relevant applications widely lie in shale gas/oil recovery, 12 membrane processes including separation and purification, 13 interfacial catalysis, 14 etc.…”
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confidence: 99%