Gas Injection Methods

Zhaomin Li is currently a professor and vice president of China University of Petroleum (East China). His research interests are in oil production engineering theory and technology, application of foam fluids in oil and gas development, and heavy oil. He is also an executive director of the Shandong Petroleum Institute in foam fluids and vice chairman of the Shandong Ocean Development Research Association. He has won many awards and received funding for more than 50 national scientific research projects. He has obtained 68 invention patents, including 7 US patents. He earned a PhD from the China University of Petroleum (Beijing), an MS from Shandong University, and a BS from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. Maen Husein is currently a professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering in chemical engineering from the Jordan University of Science and Technology, an MSc and PhD, both in chemical engineering from McGill University. Dr. Husein was a visiting professor at China University of Petroleum, East (2019–22). He is a member of the APEGA and has earned several awards and nearly 30 funding research opportunities. Abdolhossein Hemmati-Sarapardeh is currently an assistant professor at Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman. He is also an adjunct professor at Jilin University and Northeast Petroleum University in China. He was previously a visiting scholar at the University of Calgary. He earned a PhD in petroleum engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, an MSc in hydrocarbon reservoir engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, and a BSc in petroleum engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology. His research interests include enhanced oil recovery processes, heavy oil systems, nanotechnology, and applications of intelligent models in the petroleum industry. Abdolhossein has been awarded as a distinguished graduate MSc student, was an honor PhD student, and a recipient of the National Elites Foundation Scholarship. He works as an associate professor in the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. He has published over 150 journal articles, three books, several conference proceedings, and earned one patent in 2016.

Section I: Gas Injection
1. Introduction to gas flooding technique: fundamental and applications
2. Cyclic gas injection
3. CO2 immiscible injection
4. CO2 miscible flooding
5. CO2 huff and puff
6. CO2 injection EOR and carbon storage in shale oil reservoirs
7. Carbonated water injection
8. Water alternative gas (WAG)
9. CO2 injection in tight oil reservoirs

Section II: Foam Injection
10. Introduction to foam flooding techniques
11. Nanoparticle-stabilized foam
12. Flow behavior of nanoparticle-armored bubbles
13. Nanoparticle-stabilized foam for mobility control
14. EOR of low-permeability cores
15. Formation damage in gas and foam injection methods
16. Application of data mining in gas and foam injection methods
17. Field case studies of gas and foam injection methods