How to predict viscous fingering in three component flow |
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Authors: | Martin Blunt Mike Christie |
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Affiliation: | (1) BP Research Centre, Chertsey Road, Sunbury-on-Thames, TW16 7LN Middlesex, UK;(2) Present address: Department of Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University, 94305-2220, CA, USA |
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Abstract: | In a WAG process (Water Alternate Gas), water and a miscible solvent (gas) are injected into a reservoir containing water and oil. The solvent will finger through the oil, leading to early breakthrough and poor recovery. Compared with a miscible flood, when only solvent is injected, fingering is supressed by the simultaneous injection of water, since this reduces the apparent mobility contrast between the injected and displaced fluids. The fingering in a miscible flood, with only hydrocarbon flowing, can be modelled successfully using a Todd and Longstaff fractional flow. In this paper, we demonstrate how to modify the effective Todd and Longstaff mobility ratio self-consistently to account for fingering in three component systems. The resultant empirical equations of flow are solved exactly in one dimension and are in excellent agreement with the averaged saturation and concentration profiles computed using two dimensional high resolution simulation, for a variety of injected water saturations, in both secondary and tertiary displacements. |
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Keywords: | Miscible flow Riemann problems simulation viscous fingering |
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