The industry is facing serious challenges such as greenhouse gas emissions and poor understanding of in-situ recovery mechanisms. This FES project will investigate the fate of injected solvents, i.e. CO2 and lean gas, by conducting experiments using a state-of-the-art laboratory system to characterize and visualize solvent-oil-rocks interactions under reservoir conditions. The focus will be on solvent injection into mature oil reservoirs with the ultimate goal of enhancing oil recovery and energy conservation. After evaluation of the concept at the laboratory scale, the University of Alberta research team will collaborate with the industrial partners to conduct a pilot test. It is expected that the results of this research will pave the way for optimizing in-situ recovery techniques by injecting solvents.
Annual consortium meeting for unconventional petroleum production
Conference/Workshop
Executive committee of SPE Canada virtual unconventional resources conference 2020
Conference/Workshop
An Experimental and Modeling Study of Carbon Dioxide/Bitumen and C4/Bitumen Phase Behavior at Elevated Temperatures Using Cold Lake Bitumen
Scholarly Refereed Journal
An Experimental and Modeling Study on Interactions of Cold Lake Bitumen with CO2, C3, and C4 at High Temperatures
Scholarly Refereed Journal
Associate Editor, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
Invited/Keynote
Estimating compressibility of complex fracture networks in unconventional reservoirs
Scholarly Refereed Journal
Evaluating and Controlling Formation Damage: Physical Simulation of Leak-off and Flowback Processes in a Tight Carbonate Reservoir
Conference Proceedings
Evaluation of Wettability and EOR Potential of Shale and Tight Formations
PhD Thesis
Leakoff and Flowback Experiments on Tight Carbonate Core Plugs
Scholarly Refereed Journal
Measuring diffusion coefficients of gaseous propane in heavy oil at elevated temperatures
Scholarly Refereed Journal
Pore Size Distribution of Unconventional Rocks with Dual-Wet Pore Network: A Sequential Spontaneous and Forced Imbibition Technique
Conference Proceedings
Quantification of convective and diffusive transport during CO2 dissolution in oil: A numerical and analytical study
Scholarly Refereed Journal
Quantifying Oil-Recovery Mechanisms during Natural-Gas Huff ānā Puff Experiments on Ultratight Core Plugs
Scholarly Refereed Journal
Society of Petroleum Engineer (SPE) - Distinguished Lecturer
Invited/Keynote
Studying Phase Behavior of Oil-Natural Gas Systems for Designing Gas Injection Operations: A Montney Case Study
Scholarly Refereed Journal
Studying Phase Behavior of Oil-Natural Gas Systems for Designing Gas Injection Operations: A Montney Case Study
Conference Proceedings
Visualizing Interactions Between Liquid Propane and Heavy Oil
Scholarly Refereed Journal
Visualizing Oil Recovery Mechanisms During Natural Gas Huff-n-Puff Experiments on Ultra-tight Core Plugs
Conference Proceedings
Wettability Of Calcareous Shales From The East Duvernay Basin: The Role Of Natural Fractures, Thermal Maturity, And Organic-Pore Connectivity
Conference Proceedings