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ISSN Imprimir: 1091-028X
ISSN En Línea: 1934-0508
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SIMULATION OF THE EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS OF MISCIBLE GRAVITY DRAINAGE PERFORMANCE IN A STACK OF MATRIX BLOCKS
SINOPSIS
Several experiments were carried out to investigate the immiscible and miscible gravity drainage performance in a stack of matrix blocks. Both gas−oil and solvent−oil systems were studied in these experiments. The results indicated that for the gas−oil system, oil infiltration into lower blocks happens quickly. Also, when an oil-filled matrix block is surrounded by a solvent in a tilted fracture, relatively fast convection currents are possible due to the effective mixing of the fluids inside the fracture system. The application of these results to a real carbonate reservoir is also discussed. In current work the experimental results extended to reservoir conditions. We prepared a computer program to simulate the miscible-drainage performance of a stack of blocks for the extreme case of complete mixing. As the experimental results agree best with the mixing approach, we extended the program to handle actual reservoir conditions for the case of complete mixing. We think that the simulation of the results of these experiments in fractured carbonate reservoirs could be revealing in this research area.
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Aghabarari Amirhossein, Ghaedi Mojtaba, Evaluation of the effects of homogenizing matrix block sizes on the simulation of naturally fractured reservoirs, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 213, 2022. Crossref