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Experimental and numerical investigations of waterflood profiles with different well configurations

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Title Experimental and numerical investigations of waterflood profiles with different well configurations
 
Creator SANTOSH, V
MITRA, SK
VINJAMUR, M
SINGH, R
 
Subject porous-media
 
Description Experimental and numerical investigations of a waterflooding process with three different well configurations, vertical injection-vertical production (VI-VP), vertical injection-horizontal production (VI-HP), and horizontal injection-horizontal production (HI-HP), are studied here in a two-dimensional visualization cell with wells placed inside the porous medium. Water and oil profiles are tracked by mixing colored dyes that are soluble in only one phase. Experimental initial oil saturation distribution is supplied to the simulator using colored dye distribution by the Matlab image processing tool. The water flood profiles obtained by simulation using ECLIPSE are in reasonable agreement with experimental results. It is observed from experimental flood profiles that irreducible (connate) water distribution has an effect on the waterflood movement. It is seen that drawdown created by a vertical well is felt on the flood profile from the beginning of the waterflooding whereas this is not the case with the horizontal well. It is also observed that in case of the VI-VP configuration, the relative swept area is more.
 
Publisher AMER CHEMICAL SOC
 
Date 2011-07-14T03:11:36Z
2011-12-26T12:47:32Z
2011-12-27T05:35:57Z
2011-07-14T03:11:36Z
2011-12-26T12:47:32Z
2011-12-27T05:35:57Z
2007
 
Type Article
 
Identifier ENERGY & FUELS, 21(6), 3353-3359
0887-0624
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ef0700376
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/3844
http://hdl.handle.net/10054/3844
 
Language en