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CONTENTS

List of Contributors ix
Biography xi

1. An Introduction to Enhanced Oil Recovery 1
Amirhossein Mohammadi Alamooti and Farzan Karimi Malekabadi
1.1 Overview 1
1.2 Reservoir Rock Properties 2
1.3 Porosity 3
1.4 Saturation 3
1.5 Permeability 4
1.6 Wettability 4
1.7 Capillary Pressure 5
1.8 Relative Permeability 6
1.9 Reservoir Fluid Properties 7
1.10 Reservoir Drive Mechanisms 14
1.11 Mechanisms of Oil Trapping and Mobilization 16
1.12 Viscous, Capillary, and Gravity Forces 20
1.13 Pore Scale Trapping, Mobilization of Trapped Oil 21
1.14 Microscopic Displacement of Fluids in the Reservoir (ED) 23
1.15 Mobility Ratio Control 31
References 40

2. Screening Criteria of Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods 41
Ehsan Mahdavi and Fatemeh Sadat Zebarjad
2.1 Introduction 41
2.2 Gas Methods 41
2.3 Chemical Methods 47
2.4 Thermal Methods 52
References 56

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3. Enhanced Oil Recovery Using CO 2
Ramin Moghadasi, Alireza Rostami and Abdolhossein Hemmati-Sarapardeh
3.1 Introduction 61
3.2 CO 2 Injection Fundamentals 62
3.3 CO 2 Injection Methods 88
3.4 CO 2 Injection Laboratory Tests 89
3.5 CO 2 Injection Facilities and Process Design Considerations 91

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