Scaling criteria have been developed and validated to evaluate performance of waterflooding and immiscible CO2 flooding in heavy oil reservoirs by using a three-dimensional (3D) sandpacked displacement model. Experimentally, the 3D physical model consisting of a pair of horizontal wells together with five vertical wells is used to conduct waterflooding and immiscible CO2 flooding processes, respectively. Theoretically, mathematical formulae have been developed for waterflooding and immiscible CO2 flooding by performing dimensional and inspectional analyses. The scaling group of the gravitational force to viscous force is found to be negligible when scaling up a model to its prototype. The relaxed scaling criteria are validated by comparing the simulation results of a synthetic reservoir with experimental measurements and then extended for a field application. There also exists a reasonably good agreement between the laboratory measurements and the field application with the determined scaling criteria.
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March 2017
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Scaling Criteria for Waterflooding and Immiscible CO2 Flooding in Heavy Oil Reservoirs
Deyue Zhou,
Deyue Zhou
Petroleum Systems Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science,
University of Regina,
Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science,
University of Regina,
Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada
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Daoyong Yang
Daoyong Yang
Petroleum Systems Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science,
University of Regina,
Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada
e-mail: tony.yang@uregina.ca
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science,
University of Regina,
Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada
e-mail: tony.yang@uregina.ca
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Deyue Zhou
Petroleum Systems Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science,
University of Regina,
Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science,
University of Regina,
Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada
Daoyong Yang
Petroleum Systems Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science,
University of Regina,
Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada
e-mail: tony.yang@uregina.ca
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science,
University of Regina,
Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada
e-mail: tony.yang@uregina.ca
1Present address: SaskEnergy Inc., 600-1777 Victoria Avenue, Regina, SK, S4P 4K5 Canada.
2Corresponding author.
Contributed by the Petroleum Division of ASME for publication in the JOURNAL OF ENERGY RESOURCES TECHNOLOGY. Manuscript received June 6, 2016; final manuscript received December 11, 2016; published online January 16, 2017. Editor: Hameed Metghalchi.
J. Energy Resour. Technol. Mar 2017, 139(2): 022909 (13 pages)
Published Online: January 16, 2017
Article history
Received:
June 6, 2016
Revised:
December 11, 2016
Citation
Zhou, D., and Yang, D. (January 16, 2017). "Scaling Criteria for Waterflooding and Immiscible CO2 Flooding in Heavy Oil Reservoirs." ASME. J. Energy Resour. Technol. March 2017; 139(2): 022909. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4035513
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