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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2020
University of Pittsburgh—of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
The United States Government As Represented BY the Department of Energy, Washington, DC (US);
Robert M. Enick, Bethel Park, PA (US);
Deepak Tapriyal, Bethel Park, PA (US);
Angela Goodman Hanson, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Dustin Crandall, Morgantown, WV (US);
University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
The United States Government as Represented by the Department of Energy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A method of recovering hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation includes injecting into the subterranean formation a composition including carbon dioxide and at least one carbon-dioxide-soluble compound under conditions favorable to diffusion into and adsorption of the carbon-dioxide-soluble compound on the subterranean formation so that oil-wettability is decreased or water wettability or CO-philicity is increased in at least a portion the subterranean formation.