Waterflooding Performance in Inclined Communicating Stratified Reservoirs

A mathematical model is developed for performance prediction of waterflooding performance in communicating stratified reservoirs with a dip angle from the horizontal. The effect of the gravitational force is reflected by a dimensionless gravity number in the fractional flow formula that accounts f...

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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 2012
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TN Mining engineering. Metallurgy
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spelling utp-eprints.75492017-03-20T02:13:55Z Waterflooding Performance in Inclined Communicating Stratified Reservoirs El-Khatib, Noaman A.F. TN Mining engineering. Metallurgy A mathematical model is developed for performance prediction of waterflooding performance in communicating stratified reservoirs with a dip angle from the horizontal. The effect of the gravitational force is reflected by a dimensionless gravity number in the fractional flow formula that accounts for the dip angle and density difference between the displacing and displaced fluids. The developed model is used to estimate the fractional oil recovery, the water cut, the dimensionless time and the injectivity ratio at times of water breakthrough in the successive layers. Eqations are also derived for the case of continuous log–normal permeability distributions characterized by the Dykstra–Parsons variation coefficient VDP or the standard deviation of the log–normal distribution k. Solutions for inclined communicating stratified systems with log normal permeability distribution were obtained and the performance was compared with that of the horizontal systems. The effects of the gravity number, the mobility ratio and the Dykstra-Parsons permeability variation coefficient, VDP , on the performance are investigated and discussed. The obtained results showed that the gravity effect of the dip angle enhances the performance in terms of delayed water breakthrough, higher fractional oil recovery and lower water cut. This improved performance is more significant in the case of unfavorable mobility ratio.Reservoir dipping does not affect the pseudo relative permeability functions but results in a decrease in the injectivity ratio Society of Petroleum Engineers 2012-03-14 Citation Index Journal PeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utp.edu.my/7549/1/stratified.pdf application/pdf http://eprints.utp.edu.my/7549/2/SPE-126344-PA-P.pdf http://www.spe.org/index.php El-Khatib, Noaman A.F. (2012) Waterflooding Performance in Inclined Communicating Stratified Reservoirs. [Citation Index Journal] http://eprints.utp.edu.my/7549/
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topic TN Mining engineering. Metallurgy
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El-Khatib, Noaman A.F.
Waterflooding Performance in Inclined Communicating Stratified Reservoirs
description A mathematical model is developed for performance prediction of waterflooding performance in communicating stratified reservoirs with a dip angle from the horizontal. The effect of the gravitational force is reflected by a dimensionless gravity number in the fractional flow formula that accounts for the dip angle and density difference between the displacing and displaced fluids. The developed model is used to estimate the fractional oil recovery, the water cut, the dimensionless time and the injectivity ratio at times of water breakthrough in the successive layers. Eqations are also derived for the case of continuous log–normal permeability distributions characterized by the Dykstra–Parsons variation coefficient VDP or the standard deviation of the log–normal distribution k. Solutions for inclined communicating stratified systems with log normal permeability distribution were obtained and the performance was compared with that of the horizontal systems. The effects of the gravity number, the mobility ratio and the Dykstra-Parsons permeability variation coefficient, VDP , on the performance are investigated and discussed. The obtained results showed that the gravity effect of the dip angle enhances the performance in terms of delayed water breakthrough, higher fractional oil recovery and lower water cut. This improved performance is more significant in the case of unfavorable mobility ratio.Reservoir dipping does not affect the pseudo relative permeability functions but results in a decrease in the injectivity ratio
format Citation Index Journal
author El-Khatib, Noaman A.F.
author_sort El-Khatib, Noaman A.F.
title Waterflooding Performance in Inclined Communicating Stratified Reservoirs
title_short Waterflooding Performance in Inclined Communicating Stratified Reservoirs
title_full Waterflooding Performance in Inclined Communicating Stratified Reservoirs
title_fullStr Waterflooding Performance in Inclined Communicating Stratified Reservoirs
title_full_unstemmed Waterflooding Performance in Inclined Communicating Stratified Reservoirs
title_sort waterflooding performance in inclined communicating stratified reservoirs
publisher Society of Petroleum Engineers
publishDate 2012
url http://eprints.utp.edu.my/7549/1/stratified.pdf
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http://eprints.utp.edu.my/7549/
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