A novel model and sensitivity analysis for viscoelastic polymer flooding in offshore oilfield

Jing Wang; Huiqing Liu

Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.20, No.2, 656-667, March, 2014

DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2013.05.030 Export Citation

A novel model and sensitivity analysis for viscoelastic polymer flooding in offshore oilfield

Jing Wang^†, and Huiqing Liu

Key Laboratory for Petroleum Engineering of the Ministry of Education, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China

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Polymer flooding has been widely used in petroleum industry. With the development of theory and technology, some problems in the existing models of polymer flooding appear during simulation. Based on the characteristics of polymer and offshore oilfield such as viscoelasticity, degradation effect and strong salt-sensitive effect, a novel model of viscoelastic polymer flooding is built, and the validation is verified. After comparing the distributions of effective viscosity and residual oil of taking account of elasticity and taking no account of elasticity, it is used to investigate the effects of injection rate, polymer molecular weight, salinity, degradation rate and well space.

Keywords:Mathematical model;Non-Newtonian fluid;Numerical simulation;Polymer flooding;Viscoelasticity

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