Enhanced heavy oil recovery for carbonate reservoirs integrating cross-well seismic – A synthetic Wafra case study

Katterbauer, Klemens; Arango, Santiago; Sun, Shuyu; Hoteit, Ibrahim

doi:10.1016/j.petrol.2015.07.010

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“…For the larger Reynolds number, the inertial force gradually plays the main role, and the Forchheimer's law is in the form of quadratic. Then, the Forchheimer's law becomes the basic equation to describe the non-Darcy flow in porous media (Chen, 2019a;Lagziri and Bezzazi, 2019;Wen, 2006;Thauvin and Mohanty, 1998), and some study focus on the determination method of equation correlation coefficient and its application in engineering practice (Thauvin and Mohanty, 1998;Guo et al, 2021;Agi, 2018;Jeong, 2015;Katterbauer, 2015;Kouznetsov, 1998;Mullakaev, 2015). However, the formation mechanism of non-linear flow caused by pulse injection is obviously different from previous studies.…”

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“…It has been experimentally proven that there is a substantial increase in the net fluid flow through porous space under elastic waves (De Haro et al, 1996;Wooden, 2008, 2011;Kostrov and Wooden, 2016;Agi, 2018;Jeong, 2015;Katterbauer, 2015;Mullakaev, 2015;Tsiklauri and Beresnev, 2003). Since inertial force is well consider as a secondary factor, the impacts of local acceleration and the resulting inertial force were usually no mention.…”

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Inertial property of oscillatory flow for pulse injection in porous media

Tang

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Energy Exploration & Exploitation

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The low-frequency pulse wave makes the velocity of the fluid in the reservoir fluctuate dramatically, which results in a remarkable inertia force. The Darcy’s law was inapplicable to the pulse flow with strong effect of inertial force. In this paper, the non-Darcy flow equation and the calculation method of capillary number of pressure pulse displacement are established. The pressure pulse experiments of single-phase and two- phase flow are carried out. The results show that the periodic change of velocity can decrease the seepage resistance and enhance apparent permeability by generating the inertial force. The higher the pulse frequency improves the apparent permeability by enhancing influence of inertial force. The increase of apparent permeability of high permeability core is larger than that of low permeability core, which indicates that inertial force is more prominent in high permeability reservoir. For the water-oil two-phase flow, inertia force makes the relative permeability curve move towards right, and the equal permeability point becomes higher. In other words, with the increase of capillary number, part of residual oil is activated, and the displacement efficiency is improved.

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