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PETR 571: Capacity Has Been Taken To Mean Specific Heat

This document is a homework assignment on steam injection into an oil reservoir. It provides background information on the reservoir properties and steam conditions and lists 6 questions to answer regarding: 1) calculating the enthalpy of the steam, 2) amount of steam enthalpy available to heat the reservoir, 3) calculating the reservoir's volumetric heat capacity, 4) amount of steam needed to heat 1 cubic foot of reservoir, 5) amount if heat capacity of fluids is ignored, and 6) estimating maximum reservoir depths for steam injection based on fracture gradient. Tables of heat capacities for different materials are also provided.

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PETR 571: Capacity Has Been Taken To Mean Specific Heat

This document is a homework assignment on steam injection into an oil reservoir. It provides background information on the reservoir properties and steam conditions and lists 6 questions to answer regarding: 1) calculating the enthalpy of the steam, 2) amount of steam enthalpy available to heat the reservoir, 3) calculating the reservoir's volumetric heat capacity, 4) amount of steam needed to heat 1 cubic foot of reservoir, 5) amount if heat capacity of fluids is ignored, and 6) estimating maximum reservoir depths for steam injection based on fracture gradient. Tables of heat capacities for different materials are also provided.

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Name: ID #: 900

PETR 571
Homework No. 3

Due: Friday, October 4, 2019 (9:00 am)

1. Steam at 450°F and 80% quality is injected into a reservoir that is initially at 110°F. The
sandstone reservoir has the following average properties: porosity of 25%; oil, water, and gas
saturations of 67%, 25%, and 8%, respectively.

Answer the following questions (state any necessary assumptions you have made). The term heat
capacity has been taken to mean specific heat.

 Calculate the steam enthalpy.

 Calculate steam enthalpy available to heat the reservoir to the steam temperature
(450°F).

 Using appropriate values for heat capacities of the reservoir matrix and fluids
(following table), calculate the volumetric heat capacity of the reservoir (matrix plus
fluids).

 Calculate the amount of steam (cold water equivalent volume) required to raise the
temperature of 1 cu. ft. reservoir bulk volume to the steam temperature.

 If heat capacity of the reservoir fluids is ignored in question 4 (i.e. consider only heat
capacity of the matrix), what is the required cold water equivalent volume of steam?

 Assuming a fracture gradient of 0.75 psi/ft,

a) Estimate the maximum depth of the reservoir to permit injection of wet steam with
a temperature of 450°F.

b) Estimate the maximum depth that you will be able to deliver wet steam (any
temperature!) to the formation?

Temperature, ⁰F 350 550


MW BTU/cu ft. ⁰F 58.7 60.4
Mm BTU/cu ft. ⁰F 39.7 41.2
Mo BTU/cu ft. ⁰F 30.8 33.1
Mg BTU/cu ft. ⁰F 0.024 0.027

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