Fuentes, el reventón energético

Vol. 21 No. 1 (2023): Fuentes, el reventón energético
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STOCHASTIC NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF IN-DEPTH WATER CONFORMANCE CONTROL USING THERMALLY ACTIVE POLYMERS TREATMENTS

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  • Iván Darío Poveda,
  • Camilo Andrés Guerrero-Martin,
  • Carlos Espinosa,
  • Rubén Hernán Castro
Iván Darío Poveda
Universidad de América. Av. Carrera 1 #20 – 53. Bogotá, Colombia.
Camilo Andrés Guerrero-Martin
LOTEP - Laboratório de Operações e Tecnologias Energéticas Aplicadas na Indústria do Petróleo, Faculty of Petroleum Engineering, Federal University of Pará, Salinópolis 66075-110, Brazil.
Carlos Espinosa
TIP - Cooperativa de Tecnólogos e Ingenieros de la Industria del Petróleo y Afines. Santander, Colombia.
Rubén Hernán Castro
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín, Facultad de Minas, Departamento de Procesos y Energía, Grupo de Investigación en Fenómenos de Superficie – Michael Polanyi, Medellín, Colombia.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18273/revfue.v21n1-2023004

Published 2023-06-07

Keywords

  • Waterflooding,
  • In-depth water conformance,
  • Thermally active polymer,
  • Reservoir numerical simulation,
  • Technical-financial analysis

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Poveda, I. D. ., Guerrero-Martin, C. A., Espinosa, C., & Castro, R. H. (2023). STOCHASTIC NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF IN-DEPTH WATER CONFORMANCE CONTROL USING THERMALLY ACTIVE POLYMERS TREATMENTS. Fuentes, El reventón energético, 21(1), 49–63. https://doi.org/10.18273/revfue.v21n1-2023004
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Abstract

Thermally active polymer (TAP) technology is used in reservoirs with waterflooding processes where preferential flow channels have been identified. This paper describes the main mechanisms associated with the TAP technology used in recovery processes for in-depth water conformance. Additionally, a study of the main laboratory tests recommended in the state of the art is carried out, and the most relevant parameters obtained from the fluid-fluid and rock-fluid experimental study of the TAP formulations
are analyzed.


Subsequently, a conceptual model of stochastic numerical simulation of reservoirs is built where a chemical reaction model is incorporated that is fed with parameter ranges such as concentration and viscosity of TAP polymer, accessible pore volume (VPA), adsorption, resistance factor (RF), and residual resistance factor (RRF), together with operating parameters such as injection
rate, slug-volume, and polymer cost, obtained from the literature, to perform a sensitivity analysis that allows identifying the
parameters that have the greatest impact on the performance of the in-depth water conformance treatments on the increase of the recovery factor and its financial indicators.

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