Scientific Contributions Oil and Gas
Vol 48 No 2 (2025)

Optimization of CO2 Injection Through Cyclic Huff and Puff to Improve Oil Recovery

Dedi Kristanto (UPN Veteran Yogyakarta)
Hariyadi Hariyadi (UPN Veteran Yogyakarta)
Eko Widi Pramudyohadi (UPN Veteran Yogyakarta)
Aditya Kurniawan (UPN Veteran Yogyakarta)
Unggul Setiadi Nursidik (UPN Veteran Yogyakarta)
Dewi Asmorowati (UPN Veteran Yogyakarta)
Indah Widiyaningsih (UPN Veteran Yogyakarta)
Ndaru Cahyaningtyas (Faculty of Mineral Technology and Energy, UPN “Veteran” Yogyakarta)



Article Info

Publish Date
20 Oct 2025

Abstract

One of the Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) strategies in the petroleum industry is CO2 injection using the huff and puff method. The method is performed on one well that acts as an injection and a production well. The method works by injecting a certain volume of carbon dioxide (CO2) gas into the reservoir and then closing the well for a period of time. This injection cycle can take place over several cycles. Production can be carried out after one or more cycles according to the design. In this study, CO2 injection optimization with the huff and puff method is carried out with reservoir simulation (GEM-CMG) by taking data from one of the oil and gas wells in Indonesia, with carbonate rock characteristics that are water wet. The simulation work steps include inputting data (fluid, rock properties, and production), initialization, history matching, and CO2 injection optimization with the huff and puff method. The optimization scenarios include optimization of injection pressure and number of cycles. The injection pressure scenario uses a range of 500 - 3000 psi, based on the simulation results obtained that the injection pressure of 500 psi produces the highest recovery factor (RF) of 22.2%. Then, the cyclic scenario was carried out at the optimum injection pressure (500 psi) with the number of cycles 2 - 6 cycles. From the simulation results, it is found that the number of cycles for this carbonate reservoir condition does not have a significant effect, as evidenced by the RF values ranging from 22.1 - 22.3%.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

SCOG

Publisher

Subject

Chemical Engineering, Chemistry & Bioengineering Energy

Description

The Scientific Contributions for Oil and Gas is the official journal of the Testing Center for Oil and Gas LEMIGAS for the dissemination of information on research activities, technology engineering development and laboratory testing in the oil and gas field. Manuscripts in English are accepted from ...