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JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Volume 202, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2021.108454
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Gas condensate relative permeabilities; Dynamic pore-network modeling; Compositional modeling
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- Repsol-Sinopec Brasil, under the RD&I Levy Fund Program of the National Petroleum Agency (ANP)
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior -Brasil (CAPES) [001]
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This study introduces a pore-network model to simulate liquid deposition and its impact in gas-condensate reservoirs. The model considers flow under different gas and liquid saturations, and updates phase properties through PT-flash. Analysis based on coreflooding experiments demonstrated good predictive capability of the model for relative permeability curves.
Liquid dropout and retention in gas-condensate reservoirs, specially in the near wellbore region, obstruct gas flowing paths and impact negatively the produced fluid volume and composition. Yet, condensate banking forecasting is commonly inaccurate, as experiments seldom reproduce reservoir extreme conditions and complex fluid composition, while most pore-scale models oversimplify the physics of phase transitions between gas and condensate. To address this gap, a fully implicit isothermal compositional pore-network model for gas and condensate flow is presented. The proposed pore-networks consist of 3D structures of pores connected by constricted circular capillaries. Hydraulic conductances are calculated for the capillaries, which can exhibit singlephase flow or two-phase annular flow, according to local gas and liquid saturations, or be blocked by a liquid bridge, when capillary forces overcome viscous forces. A PT-flash based on the Peng-Robinson EoS is performed at control volumes defined for the pores at each time step, updating the phases properties. Flow analyses were carried based on coreflooding experiments reported in the literature, with matching fluid composition and flow conditions, and approximated pore-space geometry. Predicted and measured relative permeability curves showed good quantitative agreement, for two values of interfacial tension and three values of gas flow velocity.
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