Effect of reservior heterogeneities on waterflood and EOR chemical flood performance

Technical Report · Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1988

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6633096· OSTI ID:6633096

Tomutsa, L; Knight, J

Simulations were performed to study the capability of a modified version of the black oil simulator BOAST to handle reservoir heterogeneities of the type encountered in the barrier bar depositional system studied in the geoscience research program being performed for the Department of Energy as project BE1. The cases studied consisted of two-dimensional and three-dimensional simulations of layered reservoirs with different permeability contracts between the layers, different vertical permeability/horizontal permeability ratios and continuous and discontinuous shale layers. Software was developed to show graphically the residual oil saturation in the reservoir grid blocks at selected time intervals during the simulation. BOAST was modified for the residual oil saturation displays as well as for graphical displays of production rates and cumulative production versus time of oil, water and gas. 40 refs., 32 figs., 9 tabs.

• Research Organization: National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Bartlesville, OK (United States). National Inst. for Petroleum and Energy Research (NIPER)
• DOE Contract Number: FC22-83FE60149
• OSTI ID: 6633096
• Report Number(s): NIPER-235; ON: DE88001237
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Paper copy only, copy does not permit microfiche production
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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HYDRODYNAMICS
LAYERS
NUMERICAL DATA
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