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An investigation into the volumetric flow rate requirement of hydrogen transportation in existing natural gas pipelines and its safety implications (2021)
Journal Article
Abbas, A., Hossein, H., Burby, M., & Idoko, J. (2021). An investigation into the volumetric flow rate requirement of hydrogen transportation in existing natural gas pipelines and its safety implications. Gases, 1(4), 156-179. https://doi.org/10.3390/gases1040013

As an alternative to the construction of new infrastructure, repurposing existing natural gas pipelines for hydrogen transportation has been identified as a low-cost strategy for substituting natural gas with hydrogen in the wake of the energy transi... Read More about An investigation into the volumetric flow rate requirement of hydrogen transportation in existing natural gas pipelines and its safety implications.

Role of sulphates and chloride ions in improved oil recovery in a hybrid smart-low salinity flooding technique (2021)
Thesis
Al-otaibi, A. (2021). Role of sulphates and chloride ions in improved oil recovery in a hybrid smart-low salinity flooding technique. (Thesis). University of Salford

The growing demand for energy to cater for the growing world population has forced the exploitation and utilisation of existing hydrocarbon resources. Oil and gas are deemed the most conventional and common sources of energy, formed as a result of d... Read More about Role of sulphates and chloride ions in improved oil recovery in a hybrid smart-low salinity flooding technique.

The role of N2 as booter gas during Enhanced Gas Recovery by CO2 flooding in a porous medium (2021)
Journal Article
Mohammed, N., Abbas, A., & Enyi, G. (2021). The role of N2 as booter gas during Enhanced Gas Recovery by CO2 flooding in a porous medium. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 93, 104051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jngse.2021.104051

Most research on CO2 flooding is focusing on CO2 storage than CH4 recovery and mostly simulation-based. To our knowledge, there have been limited reported experimental on CO2 injections capable of unlocking a high amount of the residual methane due t... Read More about The role of N2 as booter gas during Enhanced Gas Recovery by CO2 flooding in a porous medium.

Experimental investigation of the effect of nanoparticles and polymer on interfacial tension between oil and water during Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) (2021)
Thesis
Rashid, F. Experimental investigation of the effect of nanoparticles and polymer on interfacial tension between oil and water during Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). (Dissertation). University of Salford

Nanotechnology has been generally used in several other industries, and the interest in it within the oil industry is increasing, due to its potential to deeply change enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and to improve the mechanism of recovery. With the dec... Read More about Experimental investigation of the effect of nanoparticles and polymer on interfacial tension between oil and water during Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR).

Improving the carbon capture efficiency for gas power plants through amine-based absorbents (2020)
Journal Article
Hasan, S., Abbas, A., & Nasr, G. (2021). Improving the carbon capture efficiency for gas power plants through amine-based absorbents. Sustainability, 13(1), 72. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13010072

Environmental concern for our planet has changed significantly over time due to climate change, caused by an increasing population and the subsequent demand for electricity, and thus increased power generation. Considering that natural gas is regarde... Read More about Improving the carbon capture efficiency for gas power plants through amine-based absorbents.

Experimental investigation of sodium surfactin as potential methane-water hydrate formation inhibitor (2020)
Thesis
Suleiman, S. Experimental investigation of sodium surfactin as potential methane-water hydrate formation inhibitor. (Thesis). University of Salford

The leading technologies employed in gas processing operations, including gas pipeline transport, are generally chemical based technologies. Chemical based substances are widely used as surfactants in these operations, including hydrate formation pre... Read More about Experimental investigation of sodium surfactin as potential methane-water hydrate formation inhibitor.

An experimental study on high-pressure water jets for paraffin scale removal in partially blocked production tubings (2020)
Journal Article
Yar’Adua, K., John, I., Abbas, A., Lawal, K., & Kabir, A. (2021). An experimental study on high-pressure water jets for paraffin scale removal in partially blocked production tubings. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technologies, 11(2), 973-988. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13202-020-01009-w

The common practice of using chemicals and solid-entrained liquids to remove soft scales in production tubings is associated with a high risk of contaminating the environment and eroding pipe internal surfaces. Due to the suspended solids, the curren... Read More about An experimental study on high-pressure water jets for paraffin scale removal in partially blocked production tubings.

Enhanced gas recovery by nitrogen injection : the effects of injection velocity during natural gas displacement in consolidated rocks (2020)
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Mohammed, N., Abbas, A., Enyi, G., Edem, D., & Suleiman, S. (2020). Enhanced gas recovery by nitrogen injection : the effects of injection velocity during natural gas displacement in consolidated rocks. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 83, 103513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jngse.2020.103513

The choice of the flow velocity in EGR thus becomes important since higher injection rates could lead to premature mixing of the fluids and lower injection rates generally provide longer resident times for the fluids in contact and indirectly incre... Read More about Enhanced gas recovery by nitrogen injection : the effects of injection velocity during natural gas displacement in consolidated rocks.

Alternating N2 gas injection as a potential technique for enhanced gas recovery and CO2 storage in consolidated rocks : an experimental study (2020)
Journal Article
Mohammed, N., Abbas, A., Enyi, G., Suleiman, S., Edem, D., & Abba, M. (2020). Alternating N2 gas injection as a potential technique for enhanced gas recovery and CO2 storage in consolidated rocks : an experimental study. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technologies, 10(8), 3883-3903. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13202-020-00935-z

The promotion of enhanced gas recovery (EGR) and CO2 storage is still shrouded in contention, and is not well accepted, due to the excessive in-situ CO2 mixing with the nascent natural gas. This adulterates the recovered CH4 and thus, results in a... Read More about Alternating N2 gas injection as a potential technique for enhanced gas recovery and CO2 storage in consolidated rocks : an experimental study.

Descaling petroleum production tubing using multiple high-pressure nozzles (2020)
Thesis
Hassan, K. Descaling petroleum production tubing using multiple high-pressure nozzles. (Thesis). University of Salford

The mechanical approach of utilizing high-pressure water for scale removal has gained wider acceptance by multinational despite facing poor downhole performance challenges (cavitation) that need abrasion compensation (sand). Although sand particles h... Read More about Descaling petroleum production tubing using multiple high-pressure nozzles.

Flow characteristics through gas alternating gas injection during enhanced gas recovery (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Mohammed, N., Abbas, A., Enyi, G., & Nasr, G. (2019, October). Flow characteristics through gas alternating gas injection during enhanced gas recovery. Presented at SPE Gas & Oil Technology Showcase and Conference, Dubai, UAE

Gas and liquid flooding using carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen (N2), or brine solution have become one of the promising enhanced gas (EGR) and oil recovery (EOR) technologies for residual hydrocarbons (HCs) enhancement in conventional oil and gas reser... Read More about Flow characteristics through gas alternating gas injection during enhanced gas recovery.

Solubility trapping as a potential secondary mechanism for CO2 sequestration during enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection in conventional natural gas reservoirs : an experimental approach (2019)
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Abba, M., Abbas, A., Nasr, G., Athari, A., Burby, M., Saidu, B., & Suleiman, S. (2019). Solubility trapping as a potential secondary mechanism for CO2 sequestration during enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection in conventional natural gas reservoirs : an experimental approach. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 71(103002), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jngse.2019.103002

This study aims to experimentally investigate the potential of solubility trapping mechanism in increasing CO2 storage during EGR by CO2 injection and sequestration in conventional natural gas reservoirs. A laboratory core flooding process was carrie... Read More about Solubility trapping as a potential secondary mechanism for CO2 sequestration during enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection in conventional natural gas reservoirs : an experimental approach.

Influence of permeability and injection orientation variations on dispersion coefficient during enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection (2019)
Journal Article
Abba, M., Al-Otaibi, A., Abbas, A., Nasr, G., & Burby, M. (2019). Influence of permeability and injection orientation variations on dispersion coefficient during enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection. Energies, 12(12), 2328. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12122328

This investigation was carried out to highlight the influence of the variation of permeability of the porous media with respect to the injection orientations during enhanced gas recovery (EGR) by CO2 injection using different core samples of differen... Read More about Influence of permeability and injection orientation variations on dispersion coefficient during enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection.

Effects of gravity on flow behaviour of supercritical CO2 during enhanced gas recovery and sequestration (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Abba, M., Abbas, A., Saidu, B., Nasr, G., & Al-Otaibi, A. (2018, November). Effects of gravity on flow behaviour of supercritical CO2 during enhanced gas recovery and sequestration. Poster presented at Fifth CO2 Geological Storage Workshop, Utrecht, The Netherlands

A core flooding experiment was carried out to simulate an Enhanced Gas Recovery (EGR) process to inject supercritical Carbon Dioxide (SCO2) into a core sample saturated with methane (CH4). This was done to investigate the flow behaviour of the inject... Read More about Effects of gravity on flow behaviour of supercritical CO2 during enhanced gas recovery and sequestration.

Enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection and sequestration : effects of temperature, vertical and horizontal orientations on dispersion coefficient (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Abba, M., Abbas, A., Nasr, G., & Al-Otaibi, A. (2018, November). Enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection and sequestration : effects of temperature, vertical and horizontal orientations on dispersion coefficient. Presented at The Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference (ADIPEC), Abu Dhabi

Enhanced gas recovery (EGR) by CO2 injection and sequestration is receiving increased attention within the research community. This is as a result of its potential to be an avenue for the simultaneous additional recovery of natural gas from the reser... Read More about Enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection and sequestration : effects of temperature, vertical and horizontal orientations on dispersion coefficient.

Experimental investigation on the impact of connate water salinity on dispersion coefficient in consolidated rocks cores during enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection (2018)
Journal Article
Abba, M., Al-Otaibi, A., Abbas, A., Nasr, G., & Abdulkadir, M. (2018). Experimental investigation on the impact of connate water salinity on dispersion coefficient in consolidated rocks cores during enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 60, 190-201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jngse.2018.10.007

Connate water salinity is a vital property of the reservoir and its influence on the displacement efficiency cannot be overemphasised. Despite the numerous analytical literatures on the dispersion behaviour of CO2 in CH4 at different parametric condi... Read More about Experimental investigation on the impact of connate water salinity on dispersion coefficient in consolidated rocks cores during enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection.

Physicochemical characterization of sodium surfactin for oil and gas industry application (2018)
Journal Article
Suleiman, S., Abbas, A., Babaie, M., & Nasr, G. (2018). Physicochemical characterization of sodium surfactin for oil and gas industry application. Journal of Engineering Technology, 7(2), 342-353

Introduction – Industry operators are becoming more critical of synthetic surfactants for various oil and gas operations. Principal among these concerns is the environmental degradation. As a result, there is increasing interest in the use of biosurf... Read More about Physicochemical characterization of sodium surfactin for oil and gas industry application.

Experimental investigation of methane-water and methane-brine IFT measurements using pendant drop (rising bubble) method (2018)
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Yahaya, A., Akpan, E., Enyi, G., Nasr, G., & Abbas, A. (2018). Experimental investigation of methane-water and methane-brine IFT measurements using pendant drop (rising bubble) method. Journal of Engineering Technology, 6(1), 394-407

Gas hydrate formation involves low molecular gas mass transfer to a cage-like structure formed by water molecule under low temperature and high-pressure conditions. Gas hydrate is considered a problem if it develops along a pipeline. In order to solv... Read More about Experimental investigation of methane-water and methane-brine IFT measurements using pendant drop (rising bubble) method.

Enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection and sequestration : effect of connate water salinity on displacement efficiency (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Abba, M., Abbas, A., & Nasr, G. (2017, November). Enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection and sequestration : effect of connate water salinity on displacement efficiency. Poster presented at Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE

As natural gas continues to gain widespread usage as a source of cleaner and efficient fossil fuel, while greenhouse gas emission is attracting environmental consequences, the need for a viable method to enhance gas recovery and curtail greenhouse ga... Read More about Enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection and sequestration : effect of connate water salinity on displacement efficiency.

Wettability effects on Bandera Gray Sandstone using biosurfactants (2017)
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Ukwungwu, S., Abbas, A., Nasr, G., Allison, H., & Goodman, S. (2017). Wettability effects on Bandera Gray Sandstone using biosurfactants. Journal of Engineering Technology, 6(2),

Despite the growing demand for sustainable technologies that enhance residual oil recovery, the environmental and cost benefits of Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) have favoured an increased research that is utilising a biosurfactant for oil re... Read More about Wettability effects on Bandera Gray Sandstone using biosurfactants.