The impact of connate water saturation and salinity on oil recovery and CO<sub>2</sub> storage capacity during carbonated water injection in carbonate rock

Mahmood Shakiba; Masoud Riazi; Shahab Ayatollahi; Mostafa Takband

doi:10.1016/j.cjche.2018.09.008

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The impact of connate water saturation and salinity on oil recovery and CO₂ storage capacity during carbonated water injection in carbonate rock

Energy, Resources and Environmental Technology | Updated：2026-01-06

- The impact of connate water saturation and salinity on oil recovery and CO₂ storage capacity during carbonated water injection in carbonate rock
- Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol. 27, Issue 7, Pages: 1699-1707(2019)
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  1. Department of Petroleum Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran,Iran
  2. Enhanced Oil Recovery(EOR) Research Centre, IOR/EOR Research Institute, Shiraz University, Shiraz,Iran
  3. Petroleum Engineering Department, School of Chemical and Petroleum Eng., Shiraz University, Shiraz,Iran
  4. School of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran,Iran
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- DOI：10.1016/j.cjche.2018.09.008
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- Published：2019
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storage capacity during carbonated water injection in carbonate rock[J]. 中国化学工程学报, 2019, 27(7): 1699-1707.
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storage capacity during carbonated water injection in carbonate rock[J]. 中国化学工程学报, 2019, 27(7): 1699-1707. DOI： 10.1016/j.cjche.2018.09.008.

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Carbonated water injection (CWI) is known as an efficient technique for both CO

storage and enhanced oil recovery (EOR). During CWI process

moves from the water phase into the oil phase and results in oil swelling. This mechanism is considered as a reason for EOR. Viscous fingering leading to early breakthrough and leaving a large proportion of reservoir un-swept is known as an unfavorable phenomenon during flooding trials. Generally

instability at the interface due to disturbances in porous medium promotes viscous fingering phenomenon. Connate water makes viscous fingers longer and more irregular consisting of large number of tributaries leading to the ultimate oil recovery reduction. Therefore

higher

in-situ

water content can worsen this condition. Besides

this water can play as a barrier between oil and gas phases and adversely affect the gas diffusion

which results in EOR reduction. On the other hand

from gas storage point of view

it should be noted that CO

solubility is not the same in the water and oil phases. In this study for a specified water salinit

the effects of different connate water saturations (

) on the ultimate oil recovery and CO

storage capacity during secondary CWI are being presented using carbonate rock samples from one of Iranian carbonate oil reservoir. The results showed higher oil recovery and CO

storage in the case of lower connate water saturation

as 14% reduction of

resulted in 20% and 16% higher oil recovery and CO

storage capacity

respectively.

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The impact of connate water saturation and salinity on oil recovery and CO2 storage capacity during carbonated water injection in carbonate rock

DOI：10.1016/j.cjche.2018.09.008

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The impact of connate water saturation and salinity on oil recovery and CO₂ storage capacity during carbonated water injection in carbonate rock