Proceedings of the AASRI Winter International Conference on Engineering and Technology (AASRI-WIET 2013)

The Research on Evaluation of Areal Sweep Efficiency in Low Permeability Reservoir with Streamline Numerical Simulation Method

Authors
Renyi Cao, Yanbin Zhou, Qi Xiong
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Renyi Cao
Available Online December 2013.
DOI
10.2991/wiet-13.2013.23How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Low Permeability Reservoir; Areal Sweep Efficiency; Aeolotropies, Streamline Numerical Simulation; Evaluation Method
Abstract

Since nature fracture develops in the low permeability reservoir, the anisotropy has a great impact on areal sweep efficiency of water flooding, however most of the current methods don't consider and describe the influence of anisotropy. This paper introduces the frontal water equisaturation interface, defines the concept of areal sweep efficiency and calculates the breakthrough areal sweep efficiency of geometric well pattern by using streamline simulation technique. Meanwhile, we compare and verify the calculating results with reservoir engineering method. Based on the waterflood frontal movement, we have mapped out the plates of areal sweep efficiency of various aeolotropies both in quadrate inverted nine-spot pattern and in rhombus inverted nine-spot pattern with fractured vertical well. The method and plates could provide a good reference for calculation and evaluation of areal sweep efficiency of the low permeability reservoir.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the AASRI Winter International Conference on Engineering and Technology (AASRI-WIET 2013)
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
December 2013
ISBN
10.2991/wiet-13.2013.23
ISSN
1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/wiet-13.2013.23How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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