+441518081136Modelling and simulation study of carbonated water injection for enhanced oil recovery
Joint Event International Conference on Petroleum Engineering, Oil and Gas
December 06 -07, 2018 | Dubai, UAE
Cleverson Esene, Sohrab Zendehboudi and Amer Aborig
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Scientific Tracks Abstracts : J Ind Environ Chem
Abstract:
Carbonated water injection (CWI) has been known to improve oil recovery when compared to other secondary and tertiary oil recovery methods. Additional oil recovery and CO2 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 CO2. A new approach of using the grid local pressure to model CO2 solubility during CWI was adopted and the moles of CO2/water are controlled by their injection rates.
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.
E-mail: cee817@mun.ca
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