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Pitfalls of CO2 Injection in Enhanced Oil Recovery

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The intent of this paper is to offer a comprehensive understanding of the pitfalls associated with CO2-rich gas injection during enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operations. An emphasis is placed, however, on the interactions between this gas and crude oil asphaltenes, because these later compounds are heavy organic molecules which can destabilize, flocculate and precipitate in CO2-rich environments, thus triggering a major field problem: injectivity loss due to near-wellbore (inflow) formation damage: an Achilles heel for any EOR process.

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Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 830)

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125-133

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https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.830.125

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March 2016

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Luiz Carlos do Carmo Marques*, Daniel Monteiro Pimentel

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Asphaltenes Destabilization, Asphaltenes-Induced Problems in EOR, CO2 Injection Pitfalls, CO2-Induced Asphaltenes Flocculation, WAG

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