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Impact of carbon dioxide on Ivanić oilfield in tertiary oil recovery phase

Current annual oil production in Croatia on more than 30 oilfields, amounts to a little more than 0.5 million t per year. In the last 50 years, the realized oil recovery factor from the oil reservoirs has on average amounted to 32.6% of original oil in place. The currently favourable oil price increases the need for higher oil recovery from existing oilfields through the implementation of tertiary oil recovery methods. As for Croatia, a 3% increase in the oil recovery factor from current oil reservoirs, obtained due to the implementation of tertiary oil recovery methods, increases annual oil production by 15 000 t. Although tertiary oil recovery methods (EOR methods) are becoming more common worldwide, carbon dioxide injection in oil reservoirs is the most implemented EOR method. Based on the laboratory test results of the applications of tertiary oil recovery methods on oil reservoirs in Croatia, the carbon dioxide injection process was chosen as an appropriate method for increasing oil production on the Ivaniæ oil field. During the injection stage, carbon dioxide changes the state of the matter from liquid to gaseous or supercritical state. Unfortunately, the measured carbon dioxide injection results and laboratory test results differ. In situ measurements are very expensive and sometimes impractical ; therefore, various approximations are taken into account with numerous equations of state. The aim was to approximate an equation of state on the measured data, for a wide range of p, T conditions, during a pilot project of carbon dioxide injection on the Ivaniæ oilfield reservoir. Among numerous cubic equations of state, van der Waals, Redlich-Kwong, Soave-Redlich-Kwong, Peng-Robinson, Valderrama-Cisternas, Patel-Teja, Lawal-Lake- Silberberg and Matin and Hou equation of state. After comprehensive comparisons and analysis of the values measured and calculated for a wide range of p, T conditions during carbon dioxide injection on the Ivaniæ oilfield, some of equations of state were recommended for determinations carbon dioxide changes of state.

tertiary oil recovery phase; Ivaniæ oilfield; carbon dioxide injection; thermodynamic changes of states; equation of state; inversion curve

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