Two-Phase Flow (Oil-Water) in Petroleum Reservoir with Irregular Geometry Including Water Injection: Effect of Porosity on the Oil Recovery Factor

Francisco Alves Batista; B. Gonçalves Coutinho; Severino Rodrigues de Farias Neto; Antônio Gilson Barbosa de Lima

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/DDF.326-328.181

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Two-Phase Flow (Oil-Water) in Petroleum Reservoir with Irregular Geometry Including Water Injection: Effect of Porosity on the Oil Recovery Factor

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The aim of this work is to study theoretically the effect of porosity of an oil reservoir with arbitrary geometry on the oil recovery factor. A two-dimensional mathematical modeling (Black-oil model) and numerical solution applied to two-phase flow (water-oil) into the reservoir with irregular geometry including water injection is presented. The conservation equations written in generalized coordinates are solved using the finite volume method, with a fully implicit technique. Results of the pressure and saturation distributions and oil recovery factor over time are presented and evaluated for different values of porosity of the reservoir.

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Defect and Diffusion Forum (Volumes 326-328)

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Francisco Alves Batista, B. Gonçalves Coutinho, Severino Rodrigues de Farias Neto, Antônio Gilson Barbosa de Lima

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Oil Recovery, Simulation, Two-Phase Flow, Water Injection

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