Transcripción del resumen del autor. This paper focuses on phase behaviour measurements with reservoir oil-CO2 mixtures and on coreflooding tests in the huffn- puff mode to characterize the system, determine the influential mechanisms, and supply data for simulation of the field implementation. The results indicate that significant amounts of CO2 could dissolve in the oil, which caused oil swelling and viscosity reduction. During the puff cycle, the oil retained CO2 preferentially to methane; thus, the beneficial swelling and viscosity effects were maintained over an extended portion of this cycle. Corefloods were performed to investigate the effect of waterflood residual oil saturation and injection gas composition (CO2 and enriched flue gas) on oil recovery. Incremental oil recovery was observed to be sensitive to waterflood residual oil saturation and to the process application scheme. Coreflooding results suggest that the huff-n-puff process may be more suitable to oil-wet than water-wet reservoirs.

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