随着油田的成熟以及各国政府寻求降低温室气体排放，中东和北非地区的国家石油公司正在广泛采用捕集CO _{2以提高采收率的方式。}

_{CO 2} EOR的应用为中东企业提供了两大优势。它允许释放天然气，以满足国内需求，例如发电和工业使用，或限制昂贵的液化天然气进口，否则天然气将被注入油田进行二次回收。它还有助于限制排放。

阿布扎比国家石油公司 (ADNOC) 是该领域的先驱，并计划扩大其碳捕获、利用和封存 (CCUS) 技术的使用，以满足未来 10 年内EOR 中CO ₂利用率增加六倍的要求。安全封存在地下的温室气体量相当于超过一百万辆机动车每天排放的CO _{2 。}

2016年，ADNOC开始向Rumaitha和Bab油田注入CO ₂以提高石油产量并取代油田中氢气的使用。作为该项目的一部分，ADNOC 与阿布扎比 Mubadala Investment Co. 旗下的可再生能源公司 Masdar 联手，推出了 Al Reyadah，这是中东和北非首个商业规模的 CCUS 设施。Al Reyadah 目前由 ADNOC 全资拥有，并并入 ADNOC Onshore。

Al Reyadah 正在探索将工业设施、发电厂和炼油厂排放的 CO ₂用于阿拉伯联合酋长国 (UAE) 陆上油田 EOR 工作的计划。官员们表示，该公司未来的计划可能会将阿联酋工业中的约 1,330 万吨 CO _{2转移到石油和天然气生产中。}

“当我们推进通过在油田生命周期内最大限度地提高石油采收率来创造价值的计划时，我们将越来越多地利用一系列提高石油采收率的技术，其中碳捕获、利用和封存不仅有利于环境，而且ADNOC 上游董事会董事兼 Al Reyadah 董事长 Abdulmunim Saif Al Kindy 表示，这具有良好的商业意义。_{“通过向 ADNOC 的成熟油田注入 CO 2}来替代富气，将能够更有效地利用有价值的清洁燃烧天然气，无论是用于发电、海水淡化还是作为石化原料。

“这是清洁技术如何与传统能源相结合以优化资源并减少环境足迹的一个典型例子，”阿尔金迪说。

Al Reyadah 目前从阿布扎比的阿联酋钢铁工厂捕获了 800,000 吨 CO _{2 。}在位于穆萨法赫的工厂进行压缩和脱水后，天然气被输送到阿布扎比国家石油公司的陆上哈布山油田注入。该部长表示，Al Reyadah 项目将从 2024 年起探索从 Emirates Global Aluminium 设施捕获 CO _{2 的}潜力，并从 2030 年起从 Taweelah 发电厂捕获 CO 2 的潜力。

Al Reyadah 首席执行官 Arafat Al Yafei 表示，阿联酋炼油厂可捕获约 500 万吨 CO _{2 。}“CUS 是如何将最先进的技术与传统能源相结合以提高效率和优化资源的典型例子。“我们的目标不仅是满足阿布扎比国家石油公司对二氧化碳的需求，以支持其提高石油采收率计划，而且还要释放宝贵的天然气，以满足不断增长的需求。”阿尔亚菲说。

作为推动采油技术多样化的一部分，ADNOC 与挪威卑尔根大学综合石油研究中心 (CIPR) 签署了一项协议，对 EOR 技术进行应用研究，以延长 ADNOC 油藏的寿命。该协议是ADNOC确保长期、可持续和有利可图的石油生产的战略方针的一部分，也是其在油田寿命结束时回收高达70%石油的愿望的一部分。

到目前为止，ADNOC通过各种EOR方法生产的产量仅占其总产量的约7%，这显示了该公司油田的实力。除了鲁迈萨和巴布陆上油田的 CO ₂注入外，ADNOC 的大部分 EOR 生产都是基于富混相气注入，该注入部署在该公司陆上油田的多个油藏中。

ADNOC的长期EOR部署计划是增加基于CO ₂的EOR项目和其他EOR计划，例如新型混合化学概念。

Capturing CO₂ for EOR purposes is being widely adopted by national oil companies across the Middle East and North Africa region as fields mature and governments seek lower greenhouse gas emissions.

The application of CO₂ EOR provides two advantages for companies in the Middle East. It allows natural gas, which would otherwise be injected into oil fields for secondary recovery, to be freed up to meet domestic requirements, such as power generation and industrial use, or to limit costly LNG imports. It also helps limit emissions.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) is pioneering in this domain and has plans to expand its use of carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) technology to meet a sixfold increase in the utilization of CO₂ for EOR over the next 10 years. The volume of the greenhouse gas safely locked away underground will be equivalent to the CO₂ emitted by more than one million motor vehicles each day.

In 2016 ADNOC started injecting CO₂ into the Rumaitha and Bab fields to boost oil production and replace the use of hydrogen gas in the fields. As part of the project, ADNOC joined forces with Masdar, a renewable energy player that is owned by Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Co., to launch Al Reyadah, the first commercial-scale CCUS facility in the Middle East and North Africa. Al Reyadah is now fully owned by ADNOC and integrated into ADNOC Onshore.

Al Reyadah is exploring plans to bring CO₂ emitted from industrial facilities, power plants and refineries to be deployed in EOR efforts at onshore fields in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Future plans by the company could divert about 13.3 million tons of CO₂ from UAE-based industries toward oil and gas production, officials said.

“As we push forward plans to create value by maximizing oil recovery over the lifetime of our fields, we will increasingly utilize a range of enhanced oil recovery technologies, of which carbon capture, use and storage is not only good for the environment but also makes sound business sense,” said Abdulmunim Saif Al Kindy, director of ADNOC’s upstream directorate and chairman of Al Reyadah. “Replacing rich gas with CO₂ injection into ADNOC’s maturing fields will allow the more productive use of valuable clean-burning natural gas, whether for power generation, desalination or as petrochemicals’ feedstock.

“This is a prime example of how clean technology can be integrated with traditional energy to optimize resources and reduce the environmental footprint,” Al Kindy said.

Al Reyadah currently captures 800,000 tonnes of CO₂ from the Emirates Steel facilities in Abu Dhabi. After compression and dehydration at its plant in Mussafah, gas is transported for injection at ADNOC’s onshore Habshan oil field. The Al Reyadah project will explore the potential for capturing CO₂ from Emirates Global Aluminum facilities from 2024 and from the Taweelah power facilities from 2030 onward, the minister said.

Arafat Al Yafei, chief executive at Al Reyadah, said about 5 million tons of CO₂ could be captured from refineries in the UAE. “CCUS is a prime example of how state-of-the-art technology can be integrated with traditional energy to create efficiencies and optimize resources. Our objective is not only to satisfy ADNOC’s demand for CO₂ in support of its enhanced oil recovery plans but also to liberate valuable natural gas to meet rising demand,” Al Yafei said.

As part of its drives to diversify recovery techniques, ADNOC signed an agreement with the Center of Integrated Petroleum Research (CIPR) at Bergen University in Norway to conduct applied research into EOR techniques that could extend the life of ADNOC’s oil reservoirs. The agreement is part of ADNOC’s strategic approach to ensuring long-term, sustainable and profitable oil production and its aspiration to recover up to 70% of the oil in place at the end of a field’s life.

So far, ADNOC produces only about 7% of its total production through various EOR methods, which shows the strength of the company’s fields. Besides CO₂ injection at the Rumaitha and Bab onshore fields, most of ADNOC’s EOR-enabled production is based on rich miscible gas injection, which is deployed at several reservoirs across the company’s onshore fields.

ADNOC’s long-term EOR deployment plan is to increase CO₂-based EOR projects and other EOR schemes such as novel hybrid chemical concepts.