Analytical solution to 2D problem for an anticline-diverted brine flow with a floating hydrocarbon trap

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-52

  Kacimov, Anvar R ^a   Obnosov, Yurii V ^b  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Brine; Complex potential; Gas; Hodograph; Holomorphic functions; Hydrodynamic trap; Oil

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BRINES; FLOW RATE; HYDROCARBONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OIL FIELDS;

BRINE FLOW; DUPUIT-FORCHHEIMER APPROXIMATION; HYDROCARBON TRAP;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BRINES; FLOW RATE; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDROCARBONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OIL FIELDS;

ANTICLINE; BRINE; DARCY LAW; HYDROCARBON ENTRAPMENT; HYDROCARBON MIGRATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; STEADY FLOW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 38949213655     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-007-9110-y     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Bear J. (1972). Dynamics of Fluids in Porous Media. Elsevier, New York
2. Biddle K.T. and Wielchowsky C.C. (1994). Hydrocarbon traps. In: Magoon, L.B. and Dow, W.G. (eds) The Petroleum System - from Source to Trap, pp 219-315. Amer. Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa
3. Cedergreen H.R. (1989). Seepage, Drainage and Flow Nets. Wiley, New York
4. Dahlberg E.C. (1982). Applied Hydrodynamics in Petroleum Exploration. Springer, New York
5. Dake L.P. (1978). Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering. Elsevier, Amsterdam
6. Dennis H., Baillie J., Holt T. and Wessel-Berg D. (2000). Hydrodynamic activity and tilted oil-water contacts in the North Sea. In: Ofstad, K., Kittilsen, E.-J., and Alexander-Marrack, P. (eds) Improving the Exploration Process by Learning from the Past, pp. Elsevier, Amsterdam
7. Dennis, H., Bergmo, P., Holt, T.: Tilted oilf́bwater contactsf́bmodelling the effects of aquifer heterogeneity. In: Dore, A.G., Vining, B. (eds) Petroleum Geology: North-West Europe and Global Perspectives. Proceedings of the 6th Petroleum Geology Conference. Geological Society, London (2004)
8. Donaldson E.C. and Chilingarian G.V. (1985). Enhanced Oil Recovery I: Fundamentals and Analyses. Elsevier, Amsterdam
9. Emikh, V.N.: Hydrodynamics of Seepage Flows with Drainage. Nauka, Novosibirsk (in Russian) (1993)
10. Kacimov A.R. and Obnosov Yu.V. (2001). Analytical solutions to hydrodynamic problems for oil and gas traps. J. Hydrol. 254: 33-46
11. Kacimov A.R. and Youngs E.G. (2005). Steady-state water-table depressions caused by evaporation in lands overlying a water-bearing substratum. J. Hydrol. Eng. ASCE 10(4): 295-301
12. Kacimov A.R., Obnosov Yu.V., Sherif M.M. and Perret J. (2006). Analytical solution to a sea water intrusion problem with a fresh water zone tapering to a triple point. J. Eng. Math. 54: 197-210
13. Lerche I. and Thomsen R.O. (1994). Hydrodynamics of Oil and Gas. Plenum Press, New York
14. Levorsen A.I. (1954). Geology of Petroleum. Freeman and Co, San Francisco
15. Lighthelm, D.J., Gronsveld, J., Zijsking, D.: Fracture shut-off while drilling. Status Report 2: MoReS sensitivity study. EP-2002-5334, Shell Technology EP, Rijswijk (2001)
16. Nesterov I.I., Poteryaev V.V. and Salmanov F.K. (1975). Principles of Distribution of Large Oil and Gas Reservoirs in the Earth Crust. Nedra, Moscow
17. Pelce P. (1988). Dynamics of Curved Fronts. Academic Press, Boston
18. Pirson S.J. (1958). Oil Reservoir Engineering. McGraw-Hill, New York
19. Polubarinova-Kochina P.Ya. (1977). Theory of Ground Water Movement. Nauka, Moscow
20. Strack O.D.L. (1989). Groundwater Mechanics. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs
21. Ver Wiebe W.A. (1955). How Oil Is Found. University of Wichita, Wichita
22. Wells P.R.A. (1988). Hydrodynamic trapping in the Cretaceous Nahr-Umr lower sand of the North area, offshore Qatar. J. Petrol. Technol. 40: 357-362
23. Wolfram S. (1991). Mathematica. A System for Doing Mathematics by Computer. Addison-Wesley, Redwood City
24. Youngs E.G. (1990). An examination of computed steady-state water-table heights in unconfined aquifers: Dupuit-Forchheimer estimates and exact analytical results. J. Hydrol. 119: 201-214