Projects
Southwest Partnership on Carbon Sequestration
New Mexico Petroleum Recovery Research Center
Sponsors: U.S. Department of Energy
⦁ Since May 2007 a Co-Principle Investigator of the Southwest Partnership for Carbon Sequestration and the New Mexico Tech lead in the efforts in the SWP as Lead Organization. Due to similarities of CO2 injection into geological formation for improving oil, individual interested in sequestration of green house gases have recently gained interest in our research. SWP is well into Phase II with two EOR projects (Aneth in Southeast Utah and SACROC in West Texas), a coal bed methane project in New Mexico, and terrestrial projects in New Mexico and Texas. We have started on Phase III that will be commercial size CO2 injection into a deep saline reservoir eventually sequestering over 1,000,000 tons of CO2.
Improving Gas Recovery Efficiency
New Mexico Petroleum Recovery Research Center
Sponsors: U.S. Department of Energy, State of New Mexico, Industrial Advisory Consortium
⦁ The objectives of this study are to acquire the information required for and to subsequently develop adsorption/desorption models for reservoir rock at reservoir conditions, determine economic sweep efficiency/injectivity criteria for reservoir scale systems, expand foam gas flooding to shallow reservoirs, and develop models and modules for simulating CO2 flooding mechanisms. This work will devote considerable energy to laboratory measurements to determine practical information for designing gas foam systems for a wide range of reservoir types; thus, through cost-effective and environmentally attractive means, adding to recoverable oil reserves in the US.
Sequestration of CO2 in a Depleted Oil Reservoir: A Comprehensive Modeling and Site Monitoring Project
Sandia National Laboratories - Los Alamos National Laboratories New Mexico Petroleum Recovery Research Center - Strata Production Company
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy
⦁ This project takes advantage of those unique opportunities to understand, predict, and monitor the migration and ultimate fate of injected CO2 at a micro-pilot scale field experiment (pump-in/pump-out scheme) in a pressure-depleted oil reservoir.
Petroleum Recovery Research Center
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