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Due to the importance of enhanced oil recovery of heavy oil fractured reservoirs, in this work micromodel setup has been used to study the miscible solvent injection in five-spot fractured reservoirs with different fracture geometrical characteristics. Due to the visual nature and flexibility of the micromodel patterns it is a subject of interest to be used in different studies. Different patterns has been constructed by chemical etching and controlled laser etching and saturated with displaced fluid and flooded by constant rate injection of hydrocarbon solvent in abient temperature and pressure. At first, effect of fracture’s length, numbering, orientation, discontinuity and scattering on... 

Excessive water production is one of the common problems during oil recovery that causes the production to decline, the operating cost to increase, and the well to shut in. The heterogeneities such as fractures in the reservoirs causes waterfingering and decrease waterflood efficiency, recovery factor and increase production costs and lead to high watercut. On of the methods used to prevent producing undesireable water from reservoirs is using Preformed Particle Gels (PPGs) that is known as plugging agent. These particles are injected into the hydrocarbon reservoirs and plugged the flow of water and prevent the production of water.In recent years, it has been recognized that the use of... 

The goal of this study is to explore the density-driven flow and study the effect of fracture as well as chemical processes and reactions on convective transport. Convective flow is used in connection with the density-driven flow where the flow is driven by density differences in the fluid, which can be affected by the ambient rocks. Several studies of density-driven flow in porous media have focused on the effect of heterogeneity on the mixing convection; however, they neglect the key processes of geochemical reactions in fractured porous media. This study aims to address this gap by investigating the combined effect of heterogeneity (as fractures) and the existing geochemical reactions on...