Environmentally friendly oil recovery through CO2 injection

Using CO2 to enhance oil recovery has huge implications, looking at both better exploitation of Danish oil resources and the possible storage of CO2 from power plants in old oil fields. DONG Energy has worked with aspects of CO2 emission and injection for a number of years with a view to reduce the costs involved for the power plants, and injection in order to increase oil recovery. The project will follow two paths: a scientific part, run by the participating research institutions, and a coordinating part running parallel to the first part and driven by DONG Energy. The objective of the latter part of the project is for DONG Energy to develop and set up procedures for assessing the feasibility of increasing oil recovery by CO2 injection. An important element will be the design of a pilot project to allow testing of selected fields. Throughout the project there is a close collaboration between the research partners and the development of the pilot project evaluating the viability of CO2 injection through simulation of field scale flow conditions during the injection. Also, this part of the project will include testing and further development of methods for cleaning flue gas that will allow direct deposition of CO2