4th WCSET-2015 at Japan
Civil Engineering:
Title:
Experimental study and numerical simulation of methane
solubility in crude oil for gas injection enhanced oil
recovery
Authors:
M. Reza Ghulami, Kyuro Sasaki, Yuichi Sugai, Ronald
Nguele
Abstract: Gas
injection enhanced oil recovery has long been used in
petroleum industry to increase oil recovery factor.
Carbon dioxide, nitrogen, flue gas and lean hydrocarbon
gases were all being utilized as displacing agents. The
oil swelling is an indicator of amount of gas dissolved
into oil phase. Swelled oil has lower viscosity and
flows more easily, then it improves recovery factor. In
current study, a crude oil sample was used for
experimental investigation. Solubility of methane gas in
oil and swelling factor of the oil were measured by a
Pressure-Volume-Temperature apparatus and a
High-Pressure-Cell equipment, respectively. Furthermore,
a reservoir simulation software, CMG-WINPROP, was used
to estimate the PVT properties of gasoil mixture and
compare it with experimental data. It was used to
calculate gas solubility and oil swelling factor, and
also tune the equation of state with experimental data.
Experimental result shows that the solubility of methane
in oil phase and swelling factor of oil increase
proportionally with pressure. Moreover, reservoir fluid
phase behaviour was predicted using a tuned equation of
state against experimental data.
Keywords: Oil Swelling, Gas
Solubility, Gas Injection EOR, Phase Behavior
Pages:
209-212