High Resolution Prediction of Gas Injection Process Performance for Heterogeneous Reservoirs Quarterly Report (open access)

High Resolution Prediction of Gas Injection Process Performance for Heterogeneous Reservoirs Quarterly Report

This report outlines progress in the second quarter of the second year of the DOE project ''High Resolution Prediction of Gas Injection Process Performance for Heterogeneous Reservoirs''. A three-dimensional streamline simulator, developed at Stanford University, has been modified in order to use analytical one-dimensional dispersion-free solutions to multicomponent gas injection processes. The use of analytical one-dimensional solutions in combination with streamline simulation is demonstrated to speedup compositional simulations of miscible gas injection processes by orders of magnitude compared to a conventional finite difference simulator. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional examples are reported to demonstrate the potential of this technology. Finally, the assumptions of the approach and possible extensions to include the effects of gravity are discussed.
Date: March 31, 2002
Creator: Orr, Franklin M., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library