%0 Journal Article %T Experimental Investigation on Asphaltene Deposition in Porous Media During Miscible Gas Injection %J Iranian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering %I Iranian Institute of Research and Development in Chemical Industries (IRDCI)-ACECR %Z 1021-9986 %A Mousavi Dehghani, Sayed Ali %A Vafaie Sefti, Mohsen %A Mirzayi, Behruz %A Fasih, Mahdi %D 2007 %\ 12/01/2007 %V 26 %N 4 %P 39-48 %! Experimental Investigation on Asphaltene Deposition in Porous Media During Miscible Gas Injection %K Asphaltene deposition %K Porous media %K wettability alteration %K Permeability Reduction %K Miscible gas injection %R 10.30492/ijcce.2007.7599 %X In this work the likelihood of asphaltene deposition problems during dynamic displacement of oil by natural gas in unconsolidated porous media is experimentally inspected. The two different rock materials, limestone and sandstone, are used as a representative of porous media. Dynamic flow experiments indicate that the increase of natural gas injection increases asphaltene deposition in the unconsolidated matrix. The results of the study show that increase in asphaltene deposition leads to pore plugging, porosity reduction and absolute permeability damage. Irreducible water measurements showed that natural gas-induced asphaltenes change the rock wettability to oil-wet. %U https://ijcce.ac.ir/article_7599_1729e02eb269fb2b41ebe7d040831196.pdf