... of the relatively lower oil viscosity and thinner reservoir had resulted in a better predicted performance of in-situ combustion in the K reservoir than in both M and N reservoirs. Beta Field In the Beta Field, the predicted water flood recovery factor is only 17%, making the EOR potential higher...

... Abstract An important step in the numerical simulation of in-situ combustion for enhanced oil recovery is the selection of the pseudocomponents used to represent the oil. Frequently the oil is separated according 10 distillation cuts. In addition, a hydrocarbon pseudocomponent called "coke...

... analysis studies on both light and heavycrude oils have been conducted and several oxidation tests for modeling the process have been performed. Verkoczy and Freitag (1) applied the relevance of various oxidation reactions to the modeling of in situ combustion inheavy oils, through three different sets...

... OF THE MEETING. ABSTRACT The Silverdale Wet In Situ Combustion Pilot in the Sparky Sand, Saskatchewan, was initiated in 1972, and was in operation until Dec., 1980. This paper discusses the basic design of the fireflood and compares performance with the predicted behavior. The detailed operation of the pilot...

... with the two-reaction model for the purpose of enhancing the in-situ combustion performance. Many laboratory investigations have previously addressed this issue using kinetic and combustion tube experiments. In the absence of external heat losses, it has been repeatedly shown that naturally occurring clays...

... influential variables in the prediction of the operational conditions in the ISC process. Results obtained from calculations will be the base for the evaluation of in Situ Combustion prospects, in this way reservoir and production engineers of Colombian heavy oil fields can make preliminary decisions...

... aspects of the in-situ combustion process, the chemical reaction kinetics remain the least investigated aspect of underground combustion. Adequate kinetic data are necessary for reliable performance predictions by mathematical or numerical models because of the coupling between heat transfer, mass...

... oxidation behaviours due to the different composition 10 . This challenge to predict how a particular oil will burn is one of the reasons the In-Situ Combustion Research Group (ISCRG) at the University of Calgary has spent significant time and effort performing oxidation/pyrolysis kinetics lab experiments...

... that appropriate introduction of such materials in a reservoir environment could enhance the performance of combustion process and, hence, improve the recoveries. Determining their role on in-situ combustion performance requires that the mechanisms of combustion are well understood. Complex physical and chemical...

... is lower in comparison against the predicted oil recovery by in-situ combustion in unflooded reservoirs. N₂ as the Injection Fluid - N₂ Flood Nitrogen injection is considered as conservative minimum performance prediction for in-situ combustion processes taking into the gas...

... strong gas drive. These features make the process particularly attractive in pressure-depleted reservoirs that are either very thick or very thin. The application of in-situ combustion has been restricted in part by difficulties in predicting its performance in new reservoirs or under new operating...

... amount of saturates and asphaltenes than Oil 1, the ignition of Oil 2 may be easier than Oil 1 and Oil2 may form more fuel than Oil 1. Abstract Performance predictions of In-Situ Combustion (ISC) process is a challenge as it involves complicated chemical reactions, fluids movement, phase changes...

... ; Ismail et al. 2016 ; Ismail and Hascakir 2017 ; Ismail et al. 2018a ; Ismail et al. 2018b ). Abstract The complicated nature of combustion reactions makes the performance prediction of in-situ combustion difficult. This study proposes a solution to better understand the complex chemical reaction...

... combustion processes require prediction of recovery performance. Empirical and analytical models, such as the Ramey and Gates model, were developed for such purposes ( Gates and Ramey, 1980 ). Commercial and research thermal simulators were also developed to model and predict the in-situ combustion process...

... for this project is available at http://github.com/supri-a/NAML. Ahmadi , Mohammad Ali , Mohammad Masoumi , and Reza Askarinezhad . 2015 . Evolving Smart Model to Predict the Combustion Front Velocity for In Situ Combustion . Energy Technology 3 ( 2 ): 128 – 35 . Alvarado , Vladimir...

... production technology with the integrated tube and the temperature prediction model for horizontal production well, as well as the lifting technology with the high erosion-resistance performance. In-situ Combustion with Gravity Pilot Test is being conducted in the Shu1-38-32 Block of Liaohe Oilfield...

.... In conclusion, this work shows the successful implementation of the integrated simulation methodology on a major in-situ combustion project in China, which demonstrates the practical workflow for predictive modeling of in-situ combustion from laboratory scale to field scale. enhanced recovery thermal...

... treatment of reaction kinetics and in-situ combustion at reservoir scale. The multireaction mechanistic model of one-dimensional combustion provides a means to explore combustion success at conditions not investigated experimentally. Such mechanistic models also provide the means to predict the fuel amount...

... to predict the production and consumption of chemical species during in-situ combustion. This new method of representing kinetics without the Arrhenius method is applied on one synthetic and two real kinetic cell experiments. In each case, the new method reasonably captures the reaction pathways taken...