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creators_name: Bataee, M.
creators_name: Irawan, S.
creators_name: Ridha, S.
title: Wellbore stability model based on iterative coupling method in water alternating gas injection
ispublished: pub
keywords: Enhanced recovery; Finite difference method; Finite volume method; Flow of fluids; Geomechanics; Iterative methods; Oil field equipment; Oil well flooding; Oil wells; Petroleum reservoirs; Stresses; Water injection; Well flooding, Different boundary condition; Failure index; High injection pressures; Injection temperature; Iterative coupling; Water-alternating gas injections; Water-alternating-gas injection; Wellbore, Injection (oil wells)
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abstract: Ensuring wellbore integrity is the most important factor in injection well design. The water alternating gas (WAG) injection is increasingly applied globally as the effective enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method in oil wells. High injection pressure or low injection temperature could lead to compressive wellbore failure. The rock stress around the wellbore is a function of the wellbore fluid flow and it should be precisely determined to avoid the wellbore failure. The purpose of this study is to propose a method to ensure the stability of the wellbore for the WAG process using iterative coupling method. The parameters of pressures, temperature, saturations and stresses are obtained for the multiphase flow condition using mathematical modeling. In this study, finite difference method is used to solve pressure, temperature and saturations; and finite volume method is acquired to solve the rock stresses. Iterative coupling method is employed to improve the accuracy of the results. This study introduces improved iterative coupling method between flow and stress models to reduce the processing time of obtaining corrected stress and failure results. Wellbore stability model is developed to determine the maximum pressure values, which lead to wellbore failure in WAG injection process for some different boundary conditions. © 2015, The Author(s).
date: 2016
publisher: Springer Verlag
official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84991756894&doi=10.1007%2fs13202-015-0222-6&partnerID=40&md5=7493cc1b1fb49411194955462c949722
id_number: 10.1007/s13202-015-0222-6
full_text_status: none
publication: Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology
volume: 6
number: 4
pagerange: 755-775
refereed: TRUE
issn: 21900558
citation:   Bataee, M. and Irawan, S. and Ridha, S.  (2016) Wellbore stability model based on iterative coupling method in water alternating gas injection.  Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 6 (4).  pp. 755-775.  ISSN 21900558