SPE Reservoir Engineering, Vol.9, No.2, 101-106, 1994
SOLUBILITY AND DISPLACEMENT BEHAVIOR OF A VISCOUS CRUDE WITH CO2 AND HYDROCARBON GASES
The West Sak reservoir on die Alaskan North Slope contains an estimated 15 to 25 billion bbl of low-temperature, viscous crude. The reservoir has promising development potential by means of a gas injection process. An experimental study of the solubility and displacement behavior of West Sak oil with CO2 and hydrocarbon gases shows simple black-oil to complex, multiphase equilibrium behaviors.