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Record W4312073799 · doi:10.3390/en16010091

Numerical Simulation of the Oil Production Performance of Different Well Patterns with Water Injection

2022· article· en· W4312073799 on OpenAlexaff
Elia Wilinasi Sikanyika, Zhengbin Wu, Mbarouk Shaame Mbarouk, Adamu Musa Mafimba, Husham A. Ali Elbaloula, Shu Jiang

Bibliographic record

VenueEnergies · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicReservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
FundersNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsPetroleum engineeringInjection wellReservoir simulationWater injection (oil production)Directional drillingComputer simulationOil productionOil fieldDrillingReservoir engineeringWater wellGeologyEngineeringGeotechnical engineeringPetroleumSimulationGroundwaterMechanical engineering

Abstract

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Numerical reservoir simulation, which includes the construction and operation of a model that performs similarly to a real-world reservoir, is an effective method for exploring complex reservoir issues. Due to the complexity of constructing reservoir environments for experiments, numerical simulation is a vital method for studying flow behavior under reservoir conditions. In this study, a black-oil modeling simulator was used to construct, simulate, and evaluate a conceptual hydrocarbon reservoir model. The model evolved by drilling two production wells and one injection well in two cases. The first case consisted of two horizontal production wells and one injection well, while the second consisted of two vertical production wells and an injection well. In total, 25 simulation runs were performed, and the results showed that horizontal wells perform better than vertical wells in terms of productivity, with a field oil production total of 1,930,000 m3. This is significantly higher than vertical wells, which have a field oil production total of 1,890,000 m3 after 1840 days. The field recovery factor for horizontal wells was 41% and for vertical wells it was 39%, both of which were less than 50%. This indicates that the reservoir’s sweeping efficiency was minimal. To enhance sweeping efficiency, the water injection rate and number of injection wells should be increased, as well as well patterns and locations remodeled. It was also shown that as reservoir thickness increased, horizontal and vertical well productivity increased. In order to boost horizontal well productivity and increase field oil recovery above 50%, the horizontal well length should be increased to take up a wider area of the reservoir portion. On the other hand, well length may have no impact on vertical well production efficiency.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.029

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.208
Teacher spread0.201 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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