Novel laboratory investigation of huff-n-puff gas injection for shale oils under realistic reservoir conditions

Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) from shale oil formations is recognized as the next frontier in the exploitation of unconventional resources. Current approaches for performing EOR experiments using fractured rocks can generate misleading results as the fractured cores cannot be saturated with live oils. In this work, a novel laboratory methodology is developed to quantify the efficiency of gas huff-n-puff in shale oil formations under realistic...