期刊
JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
卷 181, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2019.106206
关键词
Unconventional reservoirs; CO2 cyclic injection; Exploring variation of thermophysical properties; Understanding injection-soaking-production cycles; Realistic oil recovery with large number of cycles; Molecular diffusion yields 6% incremental oil
资金
- ECLIPSE software, Halliburton
Despite the recent growth in oil production from unconventional reservoirs, existing hydraulically-fractured horizontal wells face challenges of poor recovery with the rapid production decline over a short life span. Enhanced recovery techniques, such as cyclic CO2 injection can be a solution to this impending problem and lead to energy independence for the foreseeable future. However, mechanisms occurring around the hydraulically fractured wells are far from fully understood. The primary motivation of this study revolves around addressing this limitation. Specifically, we explored the evolution of various thermophysical properties occurring around hydraulically-fractured wells in liquid-rich unconventional reservoirs using a holistic, integrated modeling framework. Available well-logs and other data from Howard County in the Midland Basin formed the basis for constructing representative 3D structural models that capture the Midland Basin stratigraphy. We used a simulator to create multistage hydraulic fractures that allowed integration into numerical reservoir-flow simulation models. Then, both convective and diffusive flow within a multicomponent compositional simulation modeling paradigm is used to examine the role of molecular diffusion in performance under cyclic CO2 injections in hydraulically-fractured well. The simulation results indicate that molecular diffusion yields an incremental oil recovery of 6% compared to models that do not. Our analysis reveals different thermophysical properties transition from near wellbore regions to outer regions into the rock matrix. Changes in total mole fractions of CO2, methane, and hydrocarbons with C7+ fraction, pressure and saturation variation, viscosity reduction and the surface tension over 14 injection-soaking-production cycles are tracked. The analyses of the evolution of these thermophysical properties provide us with means to evaluate the efficiency of the solvent injection process. The simulation results explain how, when, and where CO2 disperses into the reservoir.
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