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Simulation of Spontaneous Capilary Imbibition and Gravity Effects on Oil Recovery in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
Bassirian, Mostaafa | 2012
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- Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
- Language: Farsi
- Document No: 42609 (06)
- University: Sharif University of Technology
- Department: Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
- Advisor(s): Jamshidi, Saeed; Bozorgmehri, Ramin
- Abstract:
- Oil reservoirs, have integrated identity; that is they consist of different parameters such as wettablity, initial water saturation, capillary and gravity forces, etc. which are related to each other and affect ultimate recovery simultaneously. In fractured reservoirs, other parameters such as fractures and complex geological structures are also considered among important parameters which affect ultimate recovery. Due to large amount of reserves, fractured reservoirs are subject to different studies and simulations. In this research, different parameters which affect ultimate recovery in fractured reservoirs, are studied and simulated. Different studies show that in fractured reservoirs, wettability changes from water?wet in water invaded zone to oil?wet in oil invaded zone. On the other hand, as wettability changes from water?wet to oil?wet, capillary forces are weakened and gravitational forces become significant. So, it can be concluded that effects of gravitational and capillary forces and their interaction is different in different zones of a reservoir. As conventional commercial simulators, do not give accurate and reliable results in fractured reservoirs, in this research, first, the efficiency and applicability of these simulators are investigated; then a fully implicit 2D simulator which can use different transfer functions is developed and the importance of role of transfer function is investigated. It is finally shown that conventional commercial simulators are not able to properly simulate imbibition process in complex wettabilities which gravitational forces become important. This research seems important because even wettability is properly considered in experiments, but gravitational forces and their related parameters such as block?size, are not able to be considered because of experimental and operational limitations. Finally, results of this research shows that by change in wettability from water?wet to non?water?wet wettabilities, specially mixed wettability which is the most common wettability in reservoirs, gravitational forces become dominant and in a specific recovery pattern – counter?current imbibition – that is investigated, it has great effects on ultimate recovery and final water saturation
- Keywords:
- Simulation ; Fractured Reservoirs ; Spontaneous Imbibition ; Dual Porosity ; Mixed Wettability ; Block Size
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