A Practical Approach to Model Four-Phase Flow Through Porous Media
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Abstract
Abstract The recent advancements in the field trial of the solvent-based Enhanced Oil Recovery methods indicate the presence and simultaneous flow of four phases (i.e. water, vapor, heavy liquid hydrocarbon and light liquid hydrocarbons) in the hydrocarbon reservoirs. The accurate modeling of these field observations is not achievable in the most commercial reservoir simulators as they are generally formulated for three phase equilibrium and flow calculations. This paper evaluates the merits of a newly proposed approach [1] to incorporate an algorithm to model the four-phase flow within the conventional three-phase reservoir simulation framework without need for major change in formulation or code revamp. Compositional data from field pilot trial of the Cyclic Solvent Process (CSP) is used to evaluate the simulation model capabilities to model flow of four-phases in the porous media. The reservoir simulation models are used to history match the production performance of CSP process in in the field. Laboratory and field CSP data indicate the presence and flow of 4 phases in different stages of the CSP production cycle. The previously proposed "phase-combination" approach shows limited capability to match the changes in the compositional assay of the produced hydrocarbons in CSP process. In this paper, an improved "Coflow" formulation is proposed based on the modified Einstein Equation for dispersed flow. The new formulation is implemented in conventional three-phase reservoir simulation framework and tested against the data providing superior capability in match in the field production assay data. This paper provides a practical method to model four phase flow within the framework of the three phase reservoir simulation frameworks. The newly proposed "coflow" method in combination with the previously developed method provides a consistent framework to model flow of two hydrocarbon liquid phases in the porous media either in a continuous or dispersed flow patterns. This enables use of commercially available reservoir simulator for modeling of solvent-based EOR methods without need to significant changes in formulation or code revamp.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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