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Reservoir Simulation Assignment 1

University of Aberdeen students conducted a linear water flooding experiment using a cubic core flooding system with a poorly consolidated sand pack. They injected kerosene and water into the sand pack and calculated the absolute permeability. They then injected water at a rate of 183.599 cc/hr for 480 seconds and recorded oil and water production and pressure changes every 20 seconds. The student was asked to simulate this core flooding experiment using Petrel to generate static and dynamic reservoir models, calculate oil and water in place, model cumulative production over time including water breakthrough time, estimate residual oil saturation, model pressure decline, and assess the suitability of the experiment timing.

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Reservoir Simulation Assignment 1

University of Aberdeen students conducted a linear water flooding experiment using a cubic core flooding system with a poorly consolidated sand pack. They injected kerosene and water into the sand pack and calculated the absolute permeability. They then injected water at a rate of 183.599 cc/hr for 480 seconds and recorded oil and water production and pressure changes every 20 seconds. The student was asked to simulate this core flooding experiment using Petrel to generate static and dynamic reservoir models, calculate oil and water in place, model cumulative production over time including water breakthrough time, estimate residual oil saturation, model pressure decline, and assess the suitability of the experiment timing.

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Assignment 1

A group of University of Aberdeen students run a linear water flooding experiments using a cubic core
flooding system at standard condition. They created a poorly consolidated sand pack with a density of
2.2 g/cm3 and weight of 161.77 gram with the following dimensions.

Flow

2.56 cm

17 cm

They used capillary hysteresis method to inject kerosene with density of 0.817 g/cc and distilled
water into the sand pack and prepared their initial reservoir model. They calculated absolute
permeability of 3903 md and assumed it is similar in all directions.

To start flooding process, they injected water using a 4mm diameter plastic tube with the flow rate
of 183.599 cc/hr for 480 seconds and they recorded oil and water production and pressure changes
every 20 seconds. The oil produced using the same tube at flow rate of 122.399 cc/hr.

Simulate this core flooding system using Petrel and answer the following questions.

1. Demonstrate 3D static model of your sand pack.


2. How much is the original oil and water in place? What percentages of the reservoir fluids
are movable?
3. How much is the cumulative oil and water production verses time? When is the water
breakthrough time? (you need to comment on the graphs)
4. Show dynamic model of the reservoir at breakthrough point and estimate the residual oil
saturation at this point. (you can answer this question with the help of 2D/3D images)
5. Demonstrate reservoir pressure decline and comment on the graph.
6. The timing of the experiment is suitable or not? Do you suggest longer or shorter time for
this experiment? (Justify your answer)
7. What is the oil recovery if we use heavier oil in the sand pack? Is there any change in the
breakthrough time?
8. What is effect of grid block sizes and numbers on the result of simulation.

Additional data and assumptions:

Name of the simulation Core Flooding System

Reference pressure: 1 atm

Assume 10 grid blocks in the X direction (you can alter this number to make the grids smaller or
larger).

Top of the model: 20 cm


Report the following grid data:

PERMX PERMY PERMZ PORO

Density of gas= 0.0001 g/cc

Water and Oil PVT Properties: (Assume w and Bw are both 1)

Pb=0.01 atm

Rs=1.1 scc/scc @ Pb

Bo=1

Co=5E-5

o=2 cp

Report the following PROPS data:

PVDCO PVTW DENSITY

Special Core Analysis Data:


Sw Krw Kro Pc
0.13 0 0.89 0
0.2 0.02 0.73 0
0.3 0.06 0.42 0
0.4 0.14 0.3 0
0.5 0.26 0.17 0
0.6 0.36 0.05 0
0.67 0.41 0 0

Equilibrium data specification


Datum Depth: 20 cm, P@datum=1 atm, WOC=25 cm, GOC=5 cm

Report the following SOLUTION data:


POIL SWAT SOIL SGAS RESTART=1 FIP=2

Production well: name=P1, Group= P, location (last grid block)


Injection well: name=I1, Group= I, location (first grid block)
Both water injection and oil production controlled by the flow rate

Report the following SCHEDULE data:


'FIP=1' 'WELLS' 'SUMMARY=2' 'RS' 'SGAS' 'SOIL' 'SWAT' 'PRESSURE'

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