Immiscible Displacement of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Communicating Stratified Reservoirs

The displacement of non-Newtonian power-law fluids in communicating stratified reservoirs with a log normal permeability distribution is studied. Equations are derived for the fractional oil recovery, water cut, and injectivity ratio at times of breakthrough in the successive layers of the reservoir...

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Main Author: El-Khatib, Noaman A.F.
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Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas
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Published: Society of Petroleum Engineers 2006
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TN Mining engineering. Metallurgy
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spelling utp-eprints.33322017-03-20T01:57:05Z Immiscible Displacement of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Communicating Stratified Reservoirs El-Khatib, Noaman A.F. TN Mining engineering. Metallurgy The displacement of non-Newtonian power-law fluids in communicating stratified reservoirs with a log normal permeability distribution is studied. Equations are derived for the fractional oil recovery, water cut, and injectivity ratio at times of breakthrough in the successive layers of the reservoir. Many of the resulting equations are implicit in nature and an iterative solution procedure is used. Expressions are also derived for the pseudo relative permeabilities as function of the average saturation.The performance is compared with that for the Newtonian fluids. The effect of the different parameters on the performance is investigated. These parameters included the apparent mobilityity ratio, the power-law flow behavior indexes, the Dykstra-Parsons variation coefficient, and the flow rate. Constant injection rate and constant total pressure drop cases are studied. Society of Petroleum Engineers 2006-08 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utp.edu.my/3332/1/SPE-93394-PA-P.pdf http://www.spe.org El-Khatib, Noaman A.F. (2006) Immiscible Displacement of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Communicating Stratified Reservoirs. SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering , 9 (4). pp. 356-365. http://eprints.utp.edu.my/3332/
institution Universiti Teknologi Petronas
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topic TN Mining engineering. Metallurgy
spellingShingle TN Mining engineering. Metallurgy
El-Khatib, Noaman A.F.
Immiscible Displacement of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Communicating Stratified Reservoirs
description The displacement of non-Newtonian power-law fluids in communicating stratified reservoirs with a log normal permeability distribution is studied. Equations are derived for the fractional oil recovery, water cut, and injectivity ratio at times of breakthrough in the successive layers of the reservoir. Many of the resulting equations are implicit in nature and an iterative solution procedure is used. Expressions are also derived for the pseudo relative permeabilities as function of the average saturation.The performance is compared with that for the Newtonian fluids. The effect of the different parameters on the performance is investigated. These parameters included the apparent mobilityity ratio, the power-law flow behavior indexes, the Dykstra-Parsons variation coefficient, and the flow rate. Constant injection rate and constant total pressure drop cases are studied.
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author El-Khatib, Noaman A.F.
author_sort El-Khatib, Noaman A.F.
title Immiscible Displacement of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Communicating Stratified Reservoirs
title_short Immiscible Displacement of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Communicating Stratified Reservoirs
title_full Immiscible Displacement of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Communicating Stratified Reservoirs
title_fullStr Immiscible Displacement of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Communicating Stratified Reservoirs
title_full_unstemmed Immiscible Displacement of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Communicating Stratified Reservoirs
title_sort immiscible displacement of non-newtonian fluids in communicating stratified reservoirs
publisher Society of Petroleum Engineers
publishDate 2006
url http://eprints.utp.edu.my/3332/1/SPE-93394-PA-P.pdf
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http://eprints.utp.edu.my/3332/
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