We present a predictive model, with no adjustable parameters, for viscous fingering in compositional water-alternating-gas (WAG) floods. The model is used to generate pseudofunctions for use in a conventional compositional simulator. The model is applied successfully to three test cases, including one in a simple, heterogeneous reservoir.

Keywords:
mole fraction, pseudo relative permeability, saturation, reservoir, relative permeability, viscous fingering, data mining, enhanced recovery, upstream oil & gas, blunt
Subjects:
Flow in porous media, Improved and Enhanced Recovery, Miscible methods, Reservoir Fluid Dynamics
Copyright 1995, Society of Petroleum Engineers
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