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Conference Proceeding

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Publication Date

7-24-2017

Publication Title

SPE/AAPG/SEG Unconventional Resources Technology Conference

Keywords

Bakken Formation, Enhanced oil recovery, Oil wells

Abstract

Results from 20 samples showed that supercritical CO2 enables extraction of a considerable portion (15%–65%) of the hydrocarbons from the Bakken shales within 24 hours. The results may be used to improve modeling and forecasting the effects of CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and suggest the possibility for increasing ultimate recovery, and possibly CO2 storage, in some areas of the Bakken Formation.

Publisher

Society of Petroleum Engineers/American Association of Petroleum Geologists/Society of Exploration Geophysicists

DOI

https://doi.org/10.15530/URTEC-2017-2671596

Extent

17 pages (PDF/A, 3.2 megabytes)

Repository

University of North Dakota, Energy & Environmental Research Center, Library & Information Services. 15 North 23rd Street, Grand Forks, ND 58202. eerclibrary@undeerc.org.

Identifier

1973752

Notes

URTEC-2671596-MS

Rights

This paper reprinted with permission from Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, Austin, Texas, U.S., July 24–26, 2017, Copyright 2017 by Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC). Permission from URTeC is required for further use.

Extraction of Oil from the Bakken Shales with Supercritical CO2

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