DETERMINATION OF HYDROCARBON MOBILIZATION POTENTIAL FOR ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY

    公开(公告)号:US20210062638A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-04

    申请号:US16559877

    申请日:2019-09-04

    Abstract: Techniques including methods, apparatus and computer program products are disclosed for determining an amount of hydrocarbon recoverable from porous reservoir rock by a miscible gas flood. The techniques include retrieve a representation of a physical porous reservoir rock sample (porous reservoir rock), the representation including pore space and grain space data corresponding to the porous reservoir rock, subsequent to an execution of a multiphase flow simulation to obtain predictions of flow behavior of oil in the presence of a waterflood of the porous reservoir rock, locate substantially immobile oil blobs or patches in the retrieved representation of the porous reservoir rock; and for N number of substantially immobile oil blobs or patches (blobs), evaluate changes in mobility of the blobs for two or more iterations an effort level for of a given EOR technique, with a first one of the two or more iterations expending a first level of effort and a second one of the two or more iterations expending a second, higher level of effort, to estimate an amount of change in mobilization of the blob between the first and the second iterations for the given EOR technique.

    MULTI-PHASE FLOW VISUALIZATIONS BASED ON FLUID OCCUPATION TIME

    公开(公告)号:US20220414295A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-29

    申请号:US17897310

    申请日:2022-08-29

    Inventor: Bernd Crouse Rui Xu

    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products can be used for visualizing the behavior of flow of two or more fluid phases, wherein a fluid phase behavior is represented in a visualization. One of the methods includes determining an occupation time, which is the amount of elapsed time from when a fluid phase first occupies a particular location until a second time. The method includes generating data for a visualization, with a location in the visualization corresponding to the particular location, and with the generated data for that location in the visualization indicating the occupation time

    Prediction of Mechanical Properties of Sedimentary Rocks based on a Grain to Grain Parametric Cohesive Contact Model

    公开(公告)号:US20220398807A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-15

    申请号:US17342817

    申请日:2021-06-09

    Abstract: Disclosed are computer implemented techniques for conducting a simulation of physical properties of a porous medium. The features include receiving a micro-CT 3D image that captures a representative elemental volume of the porous medium, the porous medium defined as having mineral types and fluid types with individual grains and grain to grain contacts, labeling the micro-CT 3D image as individual voxels according to mineral and fluid types and labeling the mineral type voxels as belonging to separated and fixed individual grains. The features also include transforming the labeled voxels into an unstructured conformal mesh representation for all grains and applying the unstructured conformal mesh representation to a parametric cohesive contact engine, with the parametric cohesive contact engine executing a parametric cohesive contact model that has an adjustable parameter, a critical separation δ0 conditioned according to consolidation level.

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