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creators_name: Mirkalaei, S.M.M.
creators_name: Demiral, B.M.R.
creators_name: Hosseini, S.J.
creators_name: Masoudi, R.
title: Simulation modeling of different I-WAG schemes toward optimization of displacement efficiency
ispublished: pub
keywords: Displacement efficiency; Enhanced oil recovery; I-WAG schemes; recovery factor; Residual oil, Computer simulation; Enhanced recovery; Gases; Hydrocarbons; Optimization; Recovery; Sustainable development, Water injection
note: cited By 2; Conference of 3rd National Postgraduate Conference - Energy and Sustainability: Exploring the Innovative Minds, NPC 2011 ; Conference Date: 19 September 2011 Through 20 September 2011; Conference Code:88531
abstract: The success of the hydrocarbon recovery improvement via Water Alternative Gas injection process is closely related to the microscopic displacement and macroscopic sweep efficiency. Effectiveness of the successive displacements by water and gas injections, maximizing the three phase zones by optimum force balancing in the reservoir, WAG injection cycle, double displacement and film drainage process are among the important parameters that affect the sweep and displacement efficiency in WAG process. Water and gas injection scheme play an important role in optimization of these parameters. Different schemes of WAG injection have been reported in open literature including gas injection up dip, water injection down dip and vice versa. In this paper, the efficiency of various WAG injection schemes toward improvement of the above important parameters will be presented. Detailed theoretical investigation and simulation study are conducted. A new injection scheme is proposed. In the proposed methodology, water is injected from down dip and gas is injected from up dip in the first cycle. In the second cycle, gas is injected from down dip and water is injected from up dip. Water and gas injection location will alternatively change in each cycle of injection. Different design parameters are considered and studied including mobility ratio between water and oil phases, location of the water and the gas injectors, injection rate, WAG injection cycle. The results show that the proposed methodology has significant improvement on the displacement efficiency and three phase zone size and hence yield higher hydrocarbon recovery. © 2011 IEEE.
date: 2011
official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84857073313&doi=10.1109%2fNatPC.2011.6136458&partnerID=40&md5=d313f3f26b1ce27e785e0bbe688bd3ab
id_number: 10.1109/NatPC.2011.6136458
full_text_status: none
publication: 2011 National Postgraduate Conference - Energy and Sustainability: Exploring the Innovative Minds, NPC 2011
place_of_pub: Perak
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 9781457718847
citation:   Mirkalaei, S.M.M. and Demiral, B.M.R. and Hosseini, S.J. and Masoudi, R.  (2011) Simulation modeling of different I-WAG schemes toward optimization of displacement efficiency.  In: UNSPECIFIED.