Regarding the enormous demands of numerous industries to fossil fuels,it is essential to select the proper enhanced oil recovery approaches for vertical and horizontal wells to supply the demands with the optimum expe...Regarding the enormous demands of numerous industries to fossil fuels,it is essential to select the proper enhanced oil recovery approaches for vertical and horizontal wells to supply the demands with the optimum expenditure.Water and gas injectivity as the secondary enhanced oil recovery techniques would be preferentially considered regarding their low costs of performances rather than chemical recovery and thermal techniques.Injected gas tends to push oil through pores or cracks in the matrix block and lead them to the production well.Therefore,injection of gas may significantly increase the recovery factor in these reservoirs.In this research,different injection scenarios in a fractured carbonate reservoir in the west of Iran are being simulated by the PVT modules of Eclipse software.The purpose of this research is to analyze the possibility of gradually increasing the extent of recovery by injecting carbon dioxide,methane,and water,and different injectivity patterns are considered in this research.The selection of injectivity patterns is severely based on the highest recycling rate of gas injection on different injection scenarios,and the injectivity scenarios were being compared with the natural depletion scenario.Consequently,Co2 injection(about 60%)had the highest oil recovery factor and CH4 and TB(about 54%and 53%)injectivity scenarios had the second and third highest rate of the oil recovery factor.展开更多
文摘Regarding the enormous demands of numerous industries to fossil fuels,it is essential to select the proper enhanced oil recovery approaches for vertical and horizontal wells to supply the demands with the optimum expenditure.Water and gas injectivity as the secondary enhanced oil recovery techniques would be preferentially considered regarding their low costs of performances rather than chemical recovery and thermal techniques.Injected gas tends to push oil through pores or cracks in the matrix block and lead them to the production well.Therefore,injection of gas may significantly increase the recovery factor in these reservoirs.In this research,different injection scenarios in a fractured carbonate reservoir in the west of Iran are being simulated by the PVT modules of Eclipse software.The purpose of this research is to analyze the possibility of gradually increasing the extent of recovery by injecting carbon dioxide,methane,and water,and different injectivity patterns are considered in this research.The selection of injectivity patterns is severely based on the highest recycling rate of gas injection on different injection scenarios,and the injectivity scenarios were being compared with the natural depletion scenario.Consequently,Co2 injection(about 60%)had the highest oil recovery factor and CH4 and TB(about 54%and 53%)injectivity scenarios had the second and third highest rate of the oil recovery factor.
