This book focuses on the enhanced recovery of natural gas from less than ideal reserves, and the application of gas injection and disposal technologies

What does this book cover? 

Gas Injection for Disposal and Enhanced Recovery is the 4th volume of the ever-growing Advances in Natural Gas Engineering textbook series. These books convey the essential principles which underlie natural gas engineering, as well as the best principles of practice the industry has developed. This volume has been written with the help of some of the best process engineers and chemical engineers in the industry.

Gas Injection for Disposal and Enhanced Recovery covers topics like:

• Chemical modelling
• Thermodynamic modelling
• Geological challenges
• Shale and related geomaterials
• Natural gas hydrate formations
• Sour gas
• Acid gas injection technology
• The practicalities of both upstream and downstream applications

About the Authors

Dr Qi Li teaches at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics (CCS Research Group). Dr John J Carroll directs Gas Liquids Engineering, Ltd.’s Geostorage Process Engineering efforts. Ying (Alice) Wu is president of Sphere Technologies Ltd. She is a former assistant professor of petroleum engineering at Southwest Petroleum University.

Here, all three have contributed a great deal of practical expertise, producing a great text for anyone entering the industry.