Waterflooding for lateral anisotropy of porous media

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10.2991/aime-17.2017.127How to use a DOI?

Keywords

waterflooding, lateral anisotropy, porous media.

Abstract

There are different types of the inside-the-pool flooding: dividing the deposit by injectors into lines, circles, creating a central row of dividing injection wells with several rows, going across, and those that are combined with marginal flooding. The injector pattern depends on the field's geological conditions and the terms of recovery. In the course of field development, the number of wells may increase, transferring row and block-row systems into dispersed ones. In case of laterally heterogeneous deposits, it is crucial to decide on the injector-producer arrangement. The decision depends on the stress-strain analysis results, which reveal the formation's heterogeneity. The authors suggest drawing lines, which represent the direction of minimal stress, based on the well test data analysis. The idea is to locate the rows of injectors along these lines or to position disperse systems accordingly.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Alexander Pavlovich Shevelev
AU  - Asamat Salavatovich Valeev
AU  - Yuri Alekseevich Kotenev
AU  - Kirill Yurievich Samsonov
PY  - 2017/07
DA  - 2017/07
TI  - Waterflooding for lateral anisotropy of porous media
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference "Actual Issues of Mechanical Engineering" 2017 (AIME 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 785
EP  - 790
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aime-17.2017.127
DO  - 10.2991/aime-17.2017.127
ID  - Shevelev2017/07
ER  -