Barry Levinson's film Wag the Dog(1997) is concerned with the technological transformation of American culture in the postmodernism which is isomorphic with the media culture of American society in the late twenti...Barry Levinson's film Wag the Dog(1997) is concerned with the technological transformation of American culture in the postmodernism which is isomorphic with the media culture of American society in the late twentieth century. By exploring three dualities illustrated in the film,this paper aims to show the insecure and uncertain categories of these oppositions under the dominant phenomena of this period: the media,so as to bring about the public's ability to discern the postmodern world as well as a new ways of thinking and living.展开更多
Gas injection is the second largest enhanced oil recovery process, next only to the thermal method used in heavy oil fields. To increase the extent of the reservoir contacted by the injected gas, the gas is generally ...Gas injection is the second largest enhanced oil recovery process, next only to the thermal method used in heavy oil fields. To increase the extent of the reservoir contacted by the injected gas, the gas is generally injected intermittently with water. This mode of injection is called water-alternating-gas (WAG). This study deals with a new immiscible water alternating gas (IWAG) EOR technique, “hot IWAG” which includes combination of thermal, solvent and sweep techniques. In the proposed method CO2 will be superheated above the reservoir temperature and instead of normal temperature water, hot water will be used. Hot CO2 and hot water will be alternatively injected into the sand packs. A laboratory test was conducted on the fractured and conventional sand packs. Slugs of water and CO2 with a low and constant rate were injected into the sand packs alternatively; slug size was 0.05 PV. Recovery from each sand pack was monitored and after that hot water and hot CO2 were injected alternatively under the same conditions and increased oil recovery from each sand pack and breakthrough were measured. Experimental results showed that the injection of hot WAG could significantly recover residual oil after WAG injection in conventional and fractured sand packs.展开更多
Immiscible water-alternating-gas(WAG) flooding is an EOR technique that has proven successful for water drive reservoirs due to its ability to improve displacement and sweep efficiency.Nevertheless,considering the c...Immiscible water-alternating-gas(WAG) flooding is an EOR technique that has proven successful for water drive reservoirs due to its ability to improve displacement and sweep efficiency.Nevertheless,considering the complicated phase behavior and various multiphase flow characteristics,gas tends to break through early in production wells in heterogeneous formations because of overriding,fingering,and channeling,which may result in unfavorable recovery performance.On the basis of phase behavior studies,minimum miscibility pressure measurements,and immiscible WAG coreflood experiments,the cubic B-spline model(CBM) was employed to describe the three-phase relative permeability curve.Using the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm to adjust the vector of unknown model parameters of the CBM sequentially,optimization of production performance including pressure drop,water cut,and the cumulative gas-oil ratio was performed.A novel numerical inversion method was established for estimation of the water-oil-gas relative permeability curve during the immiscible WAG process.Based on the quantitative characterization of major recovery mechanisms,the proposed method was validated by interpreting coreflood data of the immiscible WAG experiment.The proposed method is reliable and can meet engineering requirements.It provides a basic calculation theory for implicit estimation of oil-water-gas relative permeability curve.展开更多
A three-station network of HF Doppler measurements augmented with a single rapid-run ionosonde is used at Wuhan Ionospheric Observatory, China, to monitor the atmosphericgravity wave disturbances during the WAGS campa...A three-station network of HF Doppler measurements augmented with a single rapid-run ionosonde is used at Wuhan Ionospheric Observatory, China, to monitor the atmosphericgravity wave disturbances during the WAGS campaign. The records observed in the daytimeon October 18, 1985 (in Incoherent Scatter World Day Run) are investigated. It is found thatthere exist two wave trains of disturbances in the daytime: one is a medium-scale internalgravity wave excited locally and the other is a large-scale guided gravity wave propagatingfrom north to south. Both the horizontal propagation and the height variation of the gravitywave disturbances are studied in detail with a new inversion method. The results indicatethat the inversion method makes the simple HF radio experiment system very useful in thestudy of large scale ionospheric disturbances such as gravity waves.展开更多
文摘Barry Levinson's film Wag the Dog(1997) is concerned with the technological transformation of American culture in the postmodernism which is isomorphic with the media culture of American society in the late twentieth century. By exploring three dualities illustrated in the film,this paper aims to show the insecure and uncertain categories of these oppositions under the dominant phenomena of this period: the media,so as to bring about the public's ability to discern the postmodern world as well as a new ways of thinking and living.
文摘Gas injection is the second largest enhanced oil recovery process, next only to the thermal method used in heavy oil fields. To increase the extent of the reservoir contacted by the injected gas, the gas is generally injected intermittently with water. This mode of injection is called water-alternating-gas (WAG). This study deals with a new immiscible water alternating gas (IWAG) EOR technique, “hot IWAG” which includes combination of thermal, solvent and sweep techniques. In the proposed method CO2 will be superheated above the reservoir temperature and instead of normal temperature water, hot water will be used. Hot CO2 and hot water will be alternatively injected into the sand packs. A laboratory test was conducted on the fractured and conventional sand packs. Slugs of water and CO2 with a low and constant rate were injected into the sand packs alternatively; slug size was 0.05 PV. Recovery from each sand pack was monitored and after that hot water and hot CO2 were injected alternatively under the same conditions and increased oil recovery from each sand pack and breakthrough were measured. Experimental results showed that the injection of hot WAG could significantly recover residual oil after WAG injection in conventional and fractured sand packs.
基金the financial support of the Important National Science and Technology Specific Projects of China (Grant No. 2011ZX05010-002)the Important Science and Technology Specific Projects of Petro China (Grant No. 2014E-3203)
文摘Immiscible water-alternating-gas(WAG) flooding is an EOR technique that has proven successful for water drive reservoirs due to its ability to improve displacement and sweep efficiency.Nevertheless,considering the complicated phase behavior and various multiphase flow characteristics,gas tends to break through early in production wells in heterogeneous formations because of overriding,fingering,and channeling,which may result in unfavorable recovery performance.On the basis of phase behavior studies,minimum miscibility pressure measurements,and immiscible WAG coreflood experiments,the cubic B-spline model(CBM) was employed to describe the three-phase relative permeability curve.Using the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm to adjust the vector of unknown model parameters of the CBM sequentially,optimization of production performance including pressure drop,water cut,and the cumulative gas-oil ratio was performed.A novel numerical inversion method was established for estimation of the water-oil-gas relative permeability curve during the immiscible WAG process.Based on the quantitative characterization of major recovery mechanisms,the proposed method was validated by interpreting coreflood data of the immiscible WAG experiment.The proposed method is reliable and can meet engineering requirements.It provides a basic calculation theory for implicit estimation of oil-water-gas relative permeability curve.
基金Proect supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
文摘A three-station network of HF Doppler measurements augmented with a single rapid-run ionosonde is used at Wuhan Ionospheric Observatory, China, to monitor the atmosphericgravity wave disturbances during the WAGS campaign. The records observed in the daytimeon October 18, 1985 (in Incoherent Scatter World Day Run) are investigated. It is found thatthere exist two wave trains of disturbances in the daytime: one is a medium-scale internalgravity wave excited locally and the other is a large-scale guided gravity wave propagatingfrom north to south. Both the horizontal propagation and the height variation of the gravitywave disturbances are studied in detail with a new inversion method. The results indicatethat the inversion method makes the simple HF radio experiment system very useful in thestudy of large scale ionospheric disturbances such as gravity waves.