Determination of minimum miscibility pressure using vanishing interfacial tension (VIT) in Support of EOR for Alaska North Slope (ANS) heavy oil

Vinit Tathed; Abhijit Y. Dandekar; Shirish L. Patil

Determination of minimum miscibility pressure using vanishing interfacial tension (VIT) in Support of EOR for Alaska North Slope (ANS) heavy oil

Vinit Tathed^*, Abhijit Y. Dandekar, Shirish L. Patil

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Minimum irascibility pressure (MMP) is an important optimization parameter for EOR processes involving CO2 or hydrocarbon gas injection. The MMP for a gas-oil system is directly related to the interfacial tension between the injected gas and the reservoir crude oil. In this study, a new technique called Vanishing Interfacial Tension (VIT) was used to measure MMP at reservoir conditions. Experiments were conducted using various gas-oil systems to determine the MMP. The experimental results were modeled using the Peng-Robinson Equation-of-State (EOS) by CMG simulator. The Peng-Robinson EOS was tuned with experimental data to predict the MMP accurately.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 20th (2010) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, ISOPE-2010
Pages	71-76
Number of pages	6
State	Published - 2010
Externally published	Yes

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference
Volume	1
ISSN (Print)	1098-6189
ISSN (Electronic)	1555-1792

Keywords

Alaska north slope
CO2
EOS
Heavy oils
IFT
MMP
VIT

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Ocean Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

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Tathed, V., Dandekar, A. Y., & Patil, S. L. (2010). Determination of minimum miscibility pressure using vanishing interfacial tension (VIT) in Support of EOR for Alaska North Slope (ANS) heavy oil. In Proceedings of the 20th (2010) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, ISOPE-2010 (pp. 71-76). (Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference; Vol. 1).

Tathed, Vinit ; Dandekar, Abhijit Y. ; Patil, Shirish L. / Determination of minimum miscibility pressure using vanishing interfacial tension (VIT) in Support of EOR for Alaska North Slope (ANS) heavy oil. Proceedings of the 20th (2010) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, ISOPE-2010. 2010. pp. 71-76 (Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference).

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Tathed, V, Dandekar, AY & Patil, SL 2010, Determination of minimum miscibility pressure using vanishing interfacial tension (VIT) in Support of EOR for Alaska North Slope (ANS) heavy oil. in Proceedings of the 20th (2010) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, ISOPE-2010. Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, vol. 1, pp. 71-76.

Determination of minimum miscibility pressure using vanishing interfacial tension (VIT) in Support of EOR for Alaska North Slope (ANS) heavy oil. / Tathed, Vinit; Dandekar, Abhijit Y.; Patil, Shirish L.
Proceedings of the 20th (2010) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, ISOPE-2010. 2010. p. 71-76 (Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference; Vol. 1).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Tathed V, Dandekar AY, Patil SL. Determination of minimum miscibility pressure using vanishing interfacial tension (VIT) in Support of EOR for Alaska North Slope (ANS) heavy oil. In Proceedings of the 20th (2010) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, ISOPE-2010. 2010. p. 71-76. (Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference).

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