Gas injection process is a very important technology in enhanced oil recovery.Minimum miscible pressure is one of the key parameters in gas injection processes.Various experimental methods such as slim tube are used t...Gas injection process is a very important technology in enhanced oil recovery.Minimum miscible pressure is one of the key parameters in gas injection processes.Various experimental methods such as slim tube are used to measure MMP.These methods are costly and time consuming.Recently computational methods are used in order to achieve a cost-effective and reliable technique to evaluate MMP.In this work,a new methodology has been proposed for determination of MMP using the minimum tie line length method.A real mixing cell model was developed to estimate the MMP,MME and key tie lines.This method is simple,robust,and faster than conventional one-dimensional simulation of slim tube.The new mixing cells method can accurately determine the whole key tie lines to a shift,regardless of the number of injection gas and reservoir fluid components.Unlike other methods of mixing cells,this method automatically corrects dispersion by additional contacts to achieve the low variation domain of tie line slope.Also,the determination and implementation of the minimum miscibility enrichment are investigated.展开更多
文摘Gas injection process is a very important technology in enhanced oil recovery.Minimum miscible pressure is one of the key parameters in gas injection processes.Various experimental methods such as slim tube are used to measure MMP.These methods are costly and time consuming.Recently computational methods are used in order to achieve a cost-effective and reliable technique to evaluate MMP.In this work,a new methodology has been proposed for determination of MMP using the minimum tie line length method.A real mixing cell model was developed to estimate the MMP,MME and key tie lines.This method is simple,robust,and faster than conventional one-dimensional simulation of slim tube.The new mixing cells method can accurately determine the whole key tie lines to a shift,regardless of the number of injection gas and reservoir fluid components.Unlike other methods of mixing cells,this method automatically corrects dispersion by additional contacts to achieve the low variation domain of tie line slope.Also,the determination and implementation of the minimum miscibility enrichment are investigated.
