Abstract

The oil reservoirs are underground and have the oil and gas contained in the porous rock at high temperatures and pressures. Only 5–20% of the oil is withdrawn in primary production. Further recovery can be achieved by injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) that displaces and dissolves part of the remaining oil; this process is called enhanced oil recovery. Although the characterization and fractionation of petroleum are well-known and studied, each oil sample represents a unique multicomponent system; therefore, an individual study of the sample is required. Real samples of condensate gas (CG) and light crude oil (LCO) were collected and analyzed for density, viscosity, atmospheric distillation and fractionation, and aiming characterization. Synthetic visual and non-visual methods for high pressure were successfully applied for bubble point measurements of the systems composed of supercritical CO2 and CG or LCO. Phase envelope calculations were developed on the basis of pseudo-components obtained by atmospheric ...

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