Petroleum Science >2019, Issue 4: 874-889 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12182-018-0294-2
A compositional model for CO2 flooding including CO2 equilibria between water and oil using the Peng–Robinson equation of state with the Wong–Sandler mixing rule Open Access
文章信息
作者:Zhong-Lin Yang, Hai-Yang Yu, Zhe-Wei Chen, Shi-Qing Cheng, Jian-Zheng Su
作者单位:
State Key Laboratory of Shale Oil and Gas Enrichment Mechanisms and Effective Development, Beijing, China; State Energy Center for Shale Oil Research and Development, Beijing, China; School of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China
投稿时间:2018-07-10
引用方式:Yang, ZL., Yu, HY., Chen, ZW. et al. Pet. Sci. (2019) 16: 874. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12182-018-0294-2
文章摘要
This paper presents a three-dimensional, three-phase compositional model considering CO2 phase equilibrium between water and oil. In this model, CO2 is mutually soluble in aqueous and hydrocarbon phases, while other components, except water, exist in hydrocarbon phase. The Peng–Robinson (PR) equation of state and the Wong–Sandler mixing rule with non-random two-liquid parameters are used to calculate CO2 fugacity in the aqueous phase. One-dimensional and three-dimensional CO2 flooding examples show that a significant amount of injected CO2 is dissolved in water. Our simulation shows 7% of injected CO2 can be dissolved in the aqueous phase, which delays oil recovery by 4%. The gas rate predicted by the model is smaller than the conventional model as long as water is undersaturated by CO2, which can be considered as “lost” in the aqueous phase. The model also predicts that the delayed oil can be recovered after the gas breakthrough, indicating that delayed oil is hard to recover in field applications. A three-dimensional example reveals that a highly stratified reservoir causes uneven displacement and serious CO2 breakthrough. If mobility control measures like water alternating gas are undertaken, the solubility effects will be more pronounced than this example.
关键词
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CO2 flooding, Wong–Sandler mixing rule, Equation of state, Numerical simulation, CO2 solubility