A New Method to Reduce Shale Barrier Effect on SAGD Process: Experimental and Numerical Simulation Studies using Laboratory-Scale Model
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Summary Shale barrier has been widely reported in many steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) projects. For an SAGD project, the properties and distribution of shale barrier can significantly impede the vertical expansion and lateral spread of steam chamber. Currently, although some literature has discussed the shale barrier effect from different perspectives, a systematic investigation combining the scaled physical and numerical simulations is still lacking. Simultaneously, how to reduce the shale barrier effect is also challenging. In this study, aiming at the Long Lake oilsands resources, combining the methods of 3D experiment and numerical simulation, a new method based on a top horizontal injection well is proposed to reduce the impact of shale barrier on the SAGD process. First, based on a dimensionless scaling criterion of gravity-drainage process, we conducted two 3D gravity-drainage experiments (base case and improved case) to explore the effect of shale barrier and the performance of top injection well on SAGD production. During experiments, to improve the similarity between the laboratory 3D model and the field prototype, a new wellbore model and a physical simulation method of shale barrier are proposed. The location of the shale barrier is placed above the steam injection well, and the top injection well is set above the shale barrier. For an improved case, once the steam chamber front reaches the horizontal edge of the shale barrier, the top injection well can be activated as a steam injection well to replace the previous steam injection well in the SAGD well pair. From the experimental observation, the effect of the top injection well is evaluated. Subsequently, a set of numerical simulation runs are performed to match the experimental measurements. Therefore, from this laboratory-scale simulation model, the effect of shale barrier size is discussed, and the switch time of the top injection well is also optimized to maximize the recovery process. Experimental results indicate that a top injection well-based oil drainage mode can effectively unlock the heavy crude oil above shale barrier and improve the entire SAGD production. Compared with a basic SAGD case, the top injection well can increase the final oil recovery factor by about 8%. Simultaneously, through a mass conservation law, it is calculated that the unlocking angle of remaining oil reserve above the shale barrier is about 6°. The angle can be used to effectively evaluate the recoverable oil reserve after the SAGD process for the heavy oil reservoir with a shale barrier. The simulation results of our laboratory-scale numerical simulation model are in good agreement with the experimental observation. The optimized switch time of the top injection well is the end of the second lateral expansion stage. This paper proposes a new oil drainage mode that can effectively reduce the shale barrier effect on SAGD production and thus improve the recovery performance of heavy oil reservoirs.
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