Injection of Acid Gas Mixtures in Sour Oil Reservoirs: Analysis of Near-Wellbore Processes with Coupled Modelling of Well and Reservoir Flow

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 233-251

  Battistelli, Alfredo ^a   Ceragioli, Paola ^b   Marcolini, Marica ^a  

^a SAIPEM S P A   (Italy)

^b ENI S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acid gas injection; Formation dry out; Halite precipitation; Reservoir modelling; TOUGH2; Wellbore flow

Indexed keywords

ACID GAS; ACID GAS INJECTION; DRY-OUT; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; EQUATION OF STATE; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; HIGH PRESSURE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; INORGANIC GAS; NON-AQUEOUS; NONISOTHERMAL; OIL RESERVOIRS; PRESSURE SUPPORT; PSEUDO-COMPONENTS; REINJECTION; RESERVOIR FLOW; RESERVOIR SIMULATOR; RESERVOIR TEMPERATURES; SALT CONCENTRATION; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; TOUGH2; WELLBORE; WELLBORE FLOW;

BOREHOLES; BRINES; CARBON DIOXIDE; ENHANCED RECOVERY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EQUATIONS OF STATE OF GASES; GAS FUEL ANALYSIS; GAS MIXTURES; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; HYDROCARBONS; MIXTURES; OIL FIELD EQUIPMENT; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER INJECTION;

INJECTION (OIL WELLS);

ACID; BRINE; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EQUATION OF STATE; FLOW MODELING; GAS STORAGE; HALITE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; P-T CONDITIONS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEQUESTRATION (CHEMISTRY);

EID: 80053572559     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9685-6     Document Type: Article

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