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Journal of Industrial and Environmental Chemistry | Volume 2

December 06 -07, 2018 | Dubai, UAE

Pet roleum Engineer ing, Oil and Gas

International Conference on

Joint Event

Modelling and simulation study of carbonated water injection for enhanced oil recovery

Cleverson Esene, Sohrab Zendehboudi

and

Amer Aborig

Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

arbonated water injection (CWI) has been known to

improve oil recovery when compared to other secondary

and tertiary oil recovery methods. Additional oil recovery and

sequestration associated with CWI have been investigated

through several experimental and modelling studies. There

have not been a lot of modelling studies of CWI because of the

complex multi-physics involved with fluid-fluid and fluid-rock

interaction during CWI process. However, further experimental

and modelling studies need to be conducted on CWI in other

to fully capture and comprehend the complex physics involved.

The focus of this research will be to investigate important

aspects such as oil recovery mechanisms, fluids distribution,

effect of operational parameters, effect of fractures, changes

in Petro physical properties and the capability of CWI for

sequestration of CO

. A new approach of using the grid local

pressure to model CO

solubility during CWI was adopted and

the moles of CO

/water are controlled by their injection rates.

Speaker Biography

Cleverson Esene is a Ph.D candidate at Memorial University of Newfoundland Canada,

whose interest lies in reservoir simulation, reservoir modeling and optimization of

enhanced oil recovery methods. He has few years of industrial experience with Transocean

and ExxonMobil as a drilling supervisor trainee and field engineer intern respectively. This

industry exposure has added to his theoretical, logical and quantitative reasoning in his

research abilities. He has been involved with a lot of research project using commercial and

open access reservoir simulation packages such as CMG, ECLIPSE, PETREL, MATLAB etc.

Cleverson Esene et al., Oil & Gas 2018 &

Petroleum Engineering 2018, Volume 2

DOI: 10.4066/2591-7331-C2-005