The reinjection of sour or acid gas mixtures is often required for the exploitation of hydrocarbon reservoirs containing remarkable amounts of acid gases (H 2 S and CO 2 ) to reduce the environmental impact of field exploitation and provide pressure support for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) purposes. Sour and acid gas injection in geological structures can be modelled with TMGAS, a new Equation of State (EOS) module for the TOUGH2 reservoir simulator. TMGAS can simulate the two-phase behaviour of NaCl-dominated brines in equilibrium with a non-aqueous (NA) phase, made up of inorganic gases such as CO 2 and H 2 S and hydrocarbons (pure as well as pseudo-components), up to the high pressures (∼100 MPa) and temperatures (∼200 • C) found in deep sedimentary basins. This study is focused on the near-wellbore processes driven by the injection of an acid gas mixture in a hypothetical high-pressure, under-saturated sour oil reservoir at a well-sector scale and at conditions for which the injected gas is fully miscible with the oil. Relevant-coupled processes are simulated, including the displacement of oil originally in place, the evaporation of connate brine, the salt concentration and consequent halite precipitation, as well as non-isothermal effects generated by the injection of the acid gas mixture at temperatures lower than initial reservoir temperature. Non-isothermal effects are studied by modelling in a coupled way wellbore and reservoir flow with a modified version of the TOUGH2 reservoir simulator. The described approach is limited to single-phase wellbore flow conditions occurring when injecting sour, acid or greenhouse gas mixtures in high-pressure geological structures.
The vapor-liquid equilibrium for two mixtures containing methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulphide was determined experimentally by a static-analytic method. Thirty-one data points were acquired for a range of temperatures from 243 K to 333 K at pressures up to 11 MPa. The measured data were correlated with the Peng Robinson equation of state (EoS) and different mixing rules, which led to the conclusion that a cubic EoS could simultaneously predict the existence of a 3-phase region and 2 critical points on the constant-composition two-phase boundary curve.
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