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_____ is quantified by comparing initial and final volumes in place. It takes into account volumetric and displacement efficiencies.
Recovery efficiency
The different aspects of recovery efficiency are defined and then combined to form _____
overall recovery efficiency
_____ accounts for the efficiency of recovering mobile hydrocarbon.
• defined as the ratio of mobile oil to original oil in place at reservoir conditions
Displacement efficiency
_____ can approach 100% if residual oil saturation can be driven to zero.
Displacement efficiency
One of the goals of enhanced oil recovery processes such as micellar-polymer flooding or miscible flooding is to _____
reduce residual oil saturation and increase displacement efficiency.
volumetric factors are needed to determine overall recovery efficiency – this is based on _____
areal efficiency and sweep efficiency
_____ must account for both volumetric and displacement
effects. It is therefore defined as the product of volumetric sweep efficiency and displacement efficiency
Overall recovery efficiency
variety of patterns
• line drive (direct & staggered)
• three & two-spot pattern
• four-spot pattern
• five-spot pattern
• irregular five-spot pattern layout
• seven-spot pattern
• nine-spot pattern
• peripheral flood pattern
The location of injection wells depends on factors such as:
• Reservoir structure
• Injected fluid type
• Displacement mechanism
_____ is an estimate of the area being drained by a production well.
Well spacing
A reduction in well spacing requires an _____, which is the number of production wells in a specified area.
increase in the density of production wells
Well density can be increased by drilling additional wells in the space between wells in a process called _____. It is an effective means of altering flow patterns and improving recovery efficiency, but can be more expensive than a fluid displacement process.
infill drilling
Optimum performance may be achieved with the patterns defined by controlling the rates of injectors and producers. These calculations can be performed analytically if we assume:
• The displacing and displaced fluids are incompressible
• The mobility ratio is one
• The reservoir has uniform properties
______ is the mobility of the displacing fluid behind the front divided by the mobility of the displaced fluid ahead of the front.
Mobility ratio
Mobility ratios less than or equal to one are considered _____, while mobility ratios greater than one are considered ______.
favorable ; unfavorable
_____ often occur when gas is displacing oil or water is displacing high viscosity oil.
Unfavorable mobility ratios
An example of a flood with a favorable mobility ratio is the _____
displacement of a low-viscosity oil by water
varying model parameters to determine the effect on model result
Sensitivity Testing
BOAST
Black Oil Applied Simulation Tool
MRST
The MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox
OPM
The Open Porous Media
finds the pressure distribution for a given time step first then calculates the saturation distribution for the same time step isothermal.
(BOAST) Black Oil Applied Simulation Tool
The toolbox consists of two main parts: a core offering basic functionality and single and two-phase solvers, and a set of add-on modules offering more advanced models, viewers and solvers.
(MRST) The MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox
______ provides a set of open-source tools centered around the simulation of flow and transport of fluids in porous media.
(OPM) The Open Porous Media