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Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, August 31–September 4, 2020
Paper Number: SPE-200338-MS
... distance from fracture surface into adjacent matrices; and (2) gelant or gel can reduce permeability to water more than to hydrocarbon. Finally, we summarize a 9-step procedure for sizing gelant treatment in fractured horizontal wells. This work provides quantitative guidance for water shutoff treatment...
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Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, April 14–18, 2018
Paper Number: SPE-190239-MS
..., slug size, and injector locations. The relationships between control parameters and response variables are usually studied using compositional simulators. However, the computational expense required to run such simulators could hinder their applicability to optimization procedures requiring many...
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Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, April 14–18, 2018
Paper Number: SPE-190303-MS
... Brine procedure wettability residual oil saturation IWAG Oil Recovery best practice workflow saturation permeability Introduction The tertiary recovery process known as Immiscible Water Alternate Gas Injection (IWAG) is a combination of two secondary recovery processes: water flooding...
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Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, April 11–13, 2016
Paper Number: SPE-179652-MS
...) is applied to general multiphase isenthalpic flash. An extension to the general multiphase case is presented for the two-phase Jacobian. This can be formulated as either a partial Newton or full Newton procedure. An extended solution strategy is presented to deal with many of the problems found...
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Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium, April 12–16, 2014
Paper Number: SPE-169100-MS
... of relict oil in the original gas cap and residual oil in the expanded gas cap by lean injected gas. Section 4 demonstrates the compositional surveillance data analysis procedure by application to selected gravity drainage well samples of the Prudhoe Bay field. Finally, Section 5 discusses how...
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Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium, April 12–16, 2014
Paper Number: SPE-169087-MS
... phase compositions and thus should be selected. For multicomponent gas injection at constant K -values, we further prove that in addition to the invariant β -roots in the solution procedure, the λ -values for constructing the feeds are simply the vapor phase fraction roots for the injection gas...
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Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium, April 14–18, 2012
Paper Number: SPE-153758-MS
... calculation pvt measurement parallelization artificial intelligence simulation time simulation procedure enhanced recovery upstream oil & gas minimum miscibility pressure numerical dispersion grid block extrapolation algorithm dispersion simulation run determination slimtube simulation...
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Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium, April 14–18, 2012
Paper Number: SPE-153862-MS
... of diffusion/dispersion depends significantly on reservoir heterogeneities, which exhibit a wide range of length scales. This paper demonstrates a procedure for quantifying the scaling characteristics of effective mass transfer accounting for heterogeneities based on the volume averaging approach. Volume...
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Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium, April 24–28, 2010
Paper Number: SPE-129940-MS
... disproportionate permeability reduction concentration conformance improvement wso system consistency gel evaluation wso gel information liang wso polymer solution seright gel treatment porous media procedure flow rate polymer solution variation permeability enhanced recovery upstream oil...
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Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium, April 24–28, 2010
Paper Number: SPE-129798-MS
... procedure modeling & simulation length scale effective shear rate Introduction Abstract Petroleum reservoirs exhibit heterogeneities over a wide range of length scales, and the impact of these heterogeneities on effective shear rate controls the flow behavior of polymer solution. Prediction...
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Paper presented at the SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, April 20–23, 2008
Paper Number: SPE-113353-MS
... characterized. However, little is known on the effect of acid gases (CO 2 , H 2 S and their mixtures) on the water-wettability of caprocks. We present an experimental setup and procedure for measuring contact angles on mineral substrates in the conditions of geological storage. Measurements have been carried...
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Paper presented at the SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, April 20–23, 2008
Paper Number: SPE-113269-MS
... Abstract Enhanced-Oil Recovery (EOR) for asset acquisition or rejuvenation involves intertwined decisions. In this sense, EOR operations are tied to a perception of high investments that demand EOR workflows with screening procedures, simulation and detailed economic evaluations. Procedures...
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Paper presented at the SPE/DOE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, April 22–26, 2006
Paper Number: SPE-99884-MS
... Abstract We propose an improved procedure for measuring acid numbers and illustrate the significance of the results by correlating with oil/brine interfacial properties. base number oil sample inflection point PVT measurement Buckley endpoint titration MIBK enhanced recovery acid...
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Paper presented at the SPE/DOE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, April 22–26, 2006
Paper Number: SPE-99490-MS
... Abstract This paper will introduce a new procedure for mapping the flow paths of the steam, water and polymer floods frequently used in residual oil extraction. The procedure entails the strategic placement of electrodes within the designated oil reservoir. When the field is flooded...
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Paper presented at the SPE/DOE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, April 22–26, 2006
Paper Number: SPE-99569-MS
... tpm procedure figure 7 allocation nonpattern field development Tank Model Scaleup Approach - Regular Patterns Full-field simulations have been successfully used to model reservoir development scenarios under water or WAG injection 1 , 2 . However, accurate prediction of flood...
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Paper presented at the SPE/DOE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, April 22–26, 2006
Paper Number: SPE-99567-MS
..., similarly to their two-phase counterparts, are rate-dependent. We describe the upscaling procedure and efficient algorithms for three "easy-to-compute" asymptotic cases: VL-viscous limit (viscous dominance), CL-capillary limit (dominance of capillary forces), and VE-vertical equilibrium (flow dominated...
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Paper presented at the SPE/DOE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, April 22–26, 2006
Paper Number: SPE-99734-MS
... Abstract The solution of the inverse problem to estimate oil-water relative permeabilities, or history matching, has been widely used in the oil industry for many years. Usually, in this procedure, the production behavior, i.e., observed oil and water flow rates and pressure data versus time...
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Paper presented at the SPE/DOE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, April 17–21, 2004
Paper Number: SPE-89392-MS
... Abstract A procedure is presented by which increased oil recovery from vertically heterogeneous reservoirs during gas flooding and/or elimination of the impacts of gas coning in gas-cut wells can be achieved. In this procedure, sodium chloride-saturated brine is injected into the layered...
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Paper presented at the SPE/DOE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, April 17–21, 2004
Paper Number: SPE-89444-MS
... the uncertainty in permeability at a location is iteratively updated to account for the additional information contained in the dynamic response data. A localized perturbation procedure is also presented to account for multiple flow regions within the reservoir. The proposed methodology is demonstrated...

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