Reservoir characterization and enhanced oil recovery research

Technical Report · Sun Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1992

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5583910· OSTI ID:5583910

Lake, L. W.; Pope, G. A.; Schechter, R. S.

The research in this annual report falls into three tasks each dealing with a different aspect of enhanced oil recovery. The first task strives to develop procedures for accurately modeling reservoirs for use as input to numerical simulation flow models. This action describes how we have used a detail characterization of an outcrop to provide insights into what features are important to fluid flow modeling. The second task deals with scaling-up and modeling chemical and solvent EOR processes. In a sense this task is the natural extension of task 1 and, in fact, one of the subtasks uses many of the same statistical procedures for insight into the effects of viscous fingering and heterogeneity. The final task involves surfactants and their interactions with carbon dioxide and reservoir minerals. This research deals primarily with phenomena observed when aqueous surfactant solutions are injected into oil reservoirs.

• Research Organization: Texas Univ., Austin, TX (United States). Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG22-89BC14251
• OSTI ID: 5583910
• Report Number(s): DOE/BC/14251-9; ON: DE92001029
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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