Waterflooding [[electronic resource] /] / G. Paul Willhite

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462008203321
• Autore: Willhite G. Paul
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Richardson, TX, : Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1986
• ISBN: 1-61399-165-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (335 p.)
• Collana: SPE textbook series ; ; v. 3
• Disciplina: 622/.3382
• Soggetti: Oil field flooding; Petroleum industry and trade; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1-Background""; ""1.1 Introduction""; ""1.2 Development of Waterflooding""; ""1.3 Primary Production""; ""2-Microscopic Efficiency of Immiscible Displacement""; ""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 Fundamental Principles Governing Fluid and Rock Interactions""; ""2.3 Methods of Inferring Fluid Distributions in Porous Media""; ""2.4 Principles of Multiphase Flow in Porous Media""; ""2.5 Residual Oil Saturation""; ""2.6 Mobilization of Residual Oil""; ""3-Macroscopic Displacement Efficiency of Linear Waterflood""; ""3.1 Introduction""; ""3.2 Development of Equations Describing Multiphase Flow in Porous Media""""3.3 Solutions to Fluid Flow Equations in Linear Systems""; ""4-Immiscible Displacement in Two Dimensions Areal""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 Fluid Flow Equations in 2D Areal Displacement""; ""4.3 Displacement in a Five-Spot Pattern""; ""4.4 Correlations Developed From Scaled Laboratory Models The CGM Model""; ""4.5 Streamtube Models""; ""4.6 Comparison of CGM and Streamtube Models for a Five-Spot Pattern""; ""4.7 Prediction of Areal Displacement by 2D Numerical Simulators""; ""4.8 Limitations of 2D Areal Simulators""""5-Vertical Displacement in Linear and Areal Models""; ""5.1 Introduction""; ""5.2 Two-Dimensional (2D) Displacement in Uniform Stratified Reservoirs Layered Models""; ""5.3 Gravity Segregation and Crossflows in Linear Reservoirs""; ""5.4 Approximation of 2D Flow With Thickness-Averaged Properties""; ""5.5 ; Estimation o f Vertical Displacement Efficiency With Scaled Laboratory Models""; ""5.6 Numerical Simulation of 2D Displacement in Linear Systems Including Gravity Segregation and/or Crossflow""; ""5.7 Viscous Fingering""; ""5.8 Estimating Waterflood Performance With 3D Models and Reservoir Simulators""""5.9 Summary""; ""6-Waterflood Design""; ""6.1 Introduction""; ""6.2 Factors Constituting a Design""; ""6.3 Reservoir Description""; ""6.4 Selection of Potential Flooding Patterns""; ""6.5 Injection Rates""; ""6.6 Estimation of Waterflood Performance""; ""7-The Role of Reservoir Geology in the Design and Operation of Waterfloods""; ""7.1 Introduction""; ""7.2 Field Cases Illustrating the Importance of Reservoir Description""; ""7.3 Reservoir Description""; ""7.4 Depositional Environment for Sandstone Reservoirs""""7.5 Depositional Environment for Carbonate Reservoirs""; ""7.6 Development of a Reservoir Description""; ""Appendix A: Computer Programs""; ""Appendix B: Streamtube Parameters for Pattern Floods, Higgins-Leighton Streamtube Model""; ""Author Index""; ""Subject Index""