Modelling and Simulation of Foam-Assisted Water-Alternating-Gas Injection in Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs
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T1 - Modelling and Simulation of Foam-Assisted Water-Alternating-Gas Injection in Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs
AU - Gugl, Ronald
N1 - embargoed until null
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In this research, carbonate core flooding experimental results of three different EOR methods were replicated numerically using CMG to study the enhancement of oil recovery in the gas invaded zone of carbonate fractured reservoirs. Experimental results for carbon dioxide injection, Water-alternating-gas injection [WAG], and foam-assisted water-alternating-gas injection [FAWAG] that were conducted in Iranian low-temperature fractured carbonate cores under both secondary and tertiary recovery conditions were used for this purpose. From these experiments, the relative permeability curves of the cores and the fitting foam parameters were derived using CMG. These findings were then used in a pilot model, that consists of a quarter five-spot pattern, and in a sector model where a double five-spot setup was used as the primary method of oil extraction. Additionally, all these models were first simulated, having been saturated by live-oil and connate water and secondly with a present gas invaded zone of 40% consisting out of methane. The foam-assisted recovery process was found to be a very useful aid in the recovery of gas invaded fractured reservoirs increasing the recovery factor in the pilot model by an astonishing twenty percent and in the sector model by more than two percent. By tuning the ratio of injected water and gas the recovery can be raised to as far as 7% additional recovery after 1 PVI for a tertiary stage.
AB - In this research, carbonate core flooding experimental results of three different EOR methods were replicated numerically using CMG to study the enhancement of oil recovery in the gas invaded zone of carbonate fractured reservoirs. Experimental results for carbon dioxide injection, Water-alternating-gas injection [WAG], and foam-assisted water-alternating-gas injection [FAWAG] that were conducted in Iranian low-temperature fractured carbonate cores under both secondary and tertiary recovery conditions were used for this purpose. From these experiments, the relative permeability curves of the cores and the fitting foam parameters were derived using CMG. These findings were then used in a pilot model, that consists of a quarter five-spot pattern, and in a sector model where a double five-spot setup was used as the primary method of oil extraction. Additionally, all these models were first simulated, having been saturated by live-oil and connate water and secondly with a present gas invaded zone of 40% consisting out of methane. The foam-assisted recovery process was found to be a very useful aid in the recovery of gas invaded fractured reservoirs increasing the recovery factor in the pilot model by an astonishing twenty percent and in the sector model by more than two percent. By tuning the ratio of injected water and gas the recovery can be raised to as far as 7% additional recovery after 1 PVI for a tertiary stage.
KW - EOR
KW - WAG
KW - FAWAG
KW - gas invaded zone
KW - simulation
KW - CMG
KW - GEM
KW - enhanced oil recovery
KW - foam
KW - gas mobility
KW - foam
KW - FAWAG
KW - WAG
KW - CO2
KW - core flooding
KW - sector
KW - EOR
KW - gas invaded zone
KW - simulation
KW - CMG
KW - GEM
KW - enhanced oil recovery
KW - gas mobility
M3 - Master's Thesis
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