Secondary Oil Recovery by Water Injection: A Numerical Study

A. de Lima Cunha; Severino Rodrigues de Farias Neto; Antônio Gilson Barbosa de Lima; E. Santos Barbosa

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/DDF.334-335.83

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Secondary Oil Recovery by Water Injection: A Numerical Study

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In this work we carried out a numerical study of the heavy oil recovery process in oil reservoir through water injection. We performed transient tridimensional numerical simulations, considering an isothermal process, with a variation in the position of water injection section (interior and surface) in the reservoir, using the ANSYS CFX 11 commercial package and evaluated its effects on the recovery factor of oil. The numerical results showed that varying the flow rate of water injection from 0.10 to 0.25 kg/s there was an increase in the flow of water and oil produced in 193% and 28%, respectively, and the recovery factor in 16.7%

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Defect and Diffusion Forum (Volumes 334-335)

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A. de Lima Cunha, Severino Rodrigues de Farias Neto, Antônio Gilson Barbosa de Lima, E. Santos Barbosa

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CFX-3D, Numerical Simulation, Porous Medium, Recovery Factor, Water Injection

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