Title: New evaluation function for the oil recovery and carbon sequestration of CO₂-EOR project

Authors: Shouya Wu; Dongya Zhao; Zhaomin Li; Quanmin Zhu

Addresses: College of Chemical Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, Shan Dong Province, China ' College of Chemical Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, Shan Dong Province, China ' School of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, Shan Dong Province, China ' College of Chemical Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, Shan Dong Province, China; Faculty of Environment and Technology, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK

Abstract: The existing parameter function for evaluating CO₂-EOR (Enhanced Oil Recovery) project has been proved to be unreasonable with the Wasson fluid simulation result by using the CMG-GEM software. To solve the incomplete and inaccurate issues of the existing methods, a new evaluation function has been devised for the CO₂-EOR project. To facilitate the study, the simplified modes for the oil recovery and carbon sequestration are adopted to calculate the evaluation function. And a graphical method is developed to calculate the oil recovery. With the existing equations, the factor of aquifer influx is taken into account to perfect the predicting volume of carbon sequestration, which reflects the storage equivalent. Then the new evaluation function can be obtained. The effects of rock permeability and reservoir porosity have been studied on the EOR and carbon sequestration.

Keywords: evaluation function; CO2; carbon dioxide; EOR; enhanced oil recovery; carbon sequestration; CMG-GME simulation; fluid simulation; aquifer influx; rock permeability; reservoir porosity.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2016.077794

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 2016 Vol.54 No.1, pp.14 - 22

Received: 14 May 2015
Accepted: 15 May 2015
Published online: 15 Jul 2016 *

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