1887
  1. Home
  2. Conferences
  3. Conference Proceedings
  4. 81st EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2019
  5. Conference paper

Abstract

Summary

Understanding multiphase flow of fluids through porous media is an important area of research, due to its significance in enhance oil recovery and the difficulty of characterizing and predicting how fluids flow in a reservoir. A common method to enhance the recovery of oil is the injection of water. The injected water acts as the the displacing fluid while oil is the displaced fluid. Such displacement can either be stable or unstable. Given that water is less viscous than oil, as water penetrates into oil, long “fingers” could be are stimulated. The evolution of such instabilities and patterns between the interface of the two fluids results in an unstable displacement. Such phenomenon is known as viscous fingering. In this study viscous fingering was numerically simulated to understand its relationship with wettability and heterogeneity

© EAGE Publications BV
Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/papers/10.3997/2214-4609.201901316
2019-06-03
2024-04-19

  • From This Site

    /content/papers/10.3997/2214-4609.201901316
    dcterms_title,dcterms_subject,pub_keyword
    -contentType:Journal -contentType:Contributor -contentType:Concept -contentType:Institution
    10
    5
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

References

  1. Blunt, M.J., Bijelhic, B., Dong, H. et al.
    , 2013. Pore-scale imaging and modelling. Advances in Water Resources51 (1) 197–216.
     [Google Scholar]
  2. Djabbarov, S., Jones, A. D. W., Krevor, S., & Muggeridge, A. H.
    , 2016. Experimental and Numerical Studies of First Contact Miscible Injection in a Quarter Five Spot Pattern. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/180125-MS
     [Google Scholar]
  3. Lake
    , L. W., 1989. Enhanced oil recovery.
     [Google Scholar]
  4. Looyestijn, W. J., & Hofman, J.
    , 2006. Wettability-Index Determination by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/93624-PA
     [Google Scholar]
  5. Masalmeh, S. K.
    , 2002. The Effect of Wettability on Saturation Functions and Impact on Carbonate Reservoirs in the Middle East. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/78515-MS
     [Google Scholar]
  6. Zhao, B., MacMinn, C. W., Juanes, Ruben
    , 2014. Residual trapping, solubility trapping and capillary pinning complement each other to limit CO2 migration in deep saline aquifers, Energy Procedia. Pages 3833-3839, ISSN1876–6102.
     [Google Scholar]
http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/papers/10.3997/2214-4609.201901316
Loading
Numerical Investigation on the Effect of Wettability and Heterogeneity on Viscous Fingering and Oil Recovery
Conference Proceedings 2019, 1 (2019); https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201901316
/content/papers/10.3997/2214-4609.201901316
/content/papers/10.3997/2214-4609.201901316
Loading

Data & Media loading...

Most Cited This Month Most Cited RSS feed

This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was a Success
Invalid data
An Error Occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error