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The U.S. Department of Energy\r\nOffice of Fossil Energy and its predecessor organizations have supported a large number of\r\nlaboratory and field projects over the past decades in an effort to improve the oil recovery\r\nprocess including investments to advanced reservoir characterization, mobility control, and\r\nconformance of CO2 flooding.\r\n\r\nCurrently, CO2 EOR provides about 280,000 barrels of oil per day, just over 5 percent of the\r\ntotal U.S. crude oil production. Recently CO2 flooding has become so technically and\r\neconomically attractive that CO2 supply, rather than CO2 price, has been the constraining\r\ndevelopmental factor. Carbon dioxide EOR is likely to expand in the United States in upcoming\r\nyears due to \u201chigh\u201d crude oil prices, natural CO2 source availability, and possible large\r\nanthropogenic CO2 sources through carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology advances.\r\n\r\nThis literature review concentrates on the history and development of CO2 mobility control and\r\nprofile modification technologies in the hope that stimulating renewed interest in these chemical\r\ntechniques will help to catalyze new efforts to overcome the geologic and process limitations\r\nsuch as poor sweep efficiency, unfavorable injectivity profiles, gravity override, high ratios of\r\nCO2 to oil produced, early breakthrough, and viscous fingering. Carbon dioxide mobility control\r\ntechnologies are in-depth, long-term processes that cause CO2 to exhibit mobility comparable to\r\noil. Profile modification and conformance control are achieved by a near-wellbore, short-term\r\nprocess primarily intended to greatly reduce the permeability of a thief zone.\r\n\r\nThe premise of this report is that a thorough review of the literature related to the past successes\r\nand failures of lab- and field-scale efforts to reduce CO2 mobility using CO2 thickeners, foams,\r\nand gels will provide a baseline understanding of the remaining challenges and the research\r\nneeded to advance this technology. Solving these challenging CO2 flooding problems will\r\nultimately increase domestic oil production via CO2 EOR. 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