Experimental investigation of CO2-oil interactions in tight rocks: A Montney case study

A Habibi, MR Yassin, H Dehghanpour, D Bryan - Fuel, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents comprehensive rock-fluid experiments to study the possibility of oil
recovery improvement when CO 2 is injected as a fracturing fluid in the Montney tight-oil …

Phase behavior and physical properties of dimethyl ether/water/heavy-oil systems under reservoir conditions

D Huang, R Li, D Yang - SPE Journal, 2021 - onepetro.org
Phase behavior and physical properties including saturation pressures, swelling factors
(SFs), phase volumes, dimethyl ether (DME) partition coefficients, and DME solubility for …

Simulation of multiphase behavior in supercritical CO2–heavy oil–water sludge extraction systems using Cubic-Plus-Association Equation of State

W Jia, S Song, C Li, X Wu, F Yang, Y Zhang… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
A new methodology was proposed for predicting the multiphase behavior of a supercritical
CO 2–heavy oil–water–solvent system during supercritical CO 2 extraction. The cubic-plus …

Deasphalting of heavy crude oil by hexamethyldisiloxane: The effect of a solvent/oil ratio on the structure, composition, and properties of precipitated asphaltenes

SO Ilyin, VY Ignatenko, AV Kostyuk, IS Levin… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of hexamethyldisiloxane (HMDSO) for deasphalting heavy crude oil allows
precipitating several times more compounds from crude oil compared to aliphatic …

Dimethyl ether as an additive to steam for improved steam-assisted gravity drainage

K Sheng, R Okuno, M Wang - SPE Journal, 2018 - onepetro.org
Coinjection of solvent with steam results in lower chamber-edge temperatures than those in
steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), which enables the decrease of heat losses to the …

Continuous high frequency measurement improves understanding of high frequency torsional oscillation in North America land drilling

Z Zhang, Y Shen, W Chen, J Shi, W Bonstaff… - SPE Annual Technical …, 2017 - onepetro.org
Bit and bottom hole assembly (BHA) rotational speed oscillation is often encountered in
North America land drilling applications. One common type of rotational speed oscillation is …

Phase behavior of C3H8–CO2–heavy oil systems in the presence of aqueous phase under reservoir conditions

X Li, H Han, D Yang, X Liu, J Qin - Fuel, 2017 - Elsevier
Phase behaviors including phase boundaries, volumes, and compositions of reservoir fluids
during solvent (s)-assisted heavy oil recovery processes have been experimentally and …

Phase behaviour and physical properties of dimethyl ether (DME)/flue gas/water/heavy oil systems under reservoir conditions

Y Li, D Huang, X Dong, D Yang - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
The application of a mixture of dimethyl ether (DME) and flue gas (ie, CO 2+ N 2) is a
promising method to recover heavy oil; however, the phase behaviour and physical …

A systematic comparison of solvents and their concentrations in bitumen gravity drainage under controlled thermodynamic conditions

H Amer, K Sheng, R Okuno, A Al-Gawfi, P Nakutnyy - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Solvent-assisted SAGD (SA-SAGD) has been studied as an alternative to improve
the efficiency of SAGD. This paper reports a new set of experimental data for SA-SAGD and …

Phase Behavior and Physical Properties of Dimethyl Ether/CO2/Water/Heavy Oil Systems under Reservoir Conditions

D Huang, Y Li, D Yang - SPE Journal, 2023 - onepetro.org
In this paper, techniques have been developed to quantify phase behavior and physical
properties including phase boundaries, swelling factors (SFs), and phase volumes for …