Wellbore stability model based on iterative coupling method in water alternating gas injection
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Ensuring wellbore integrity is the most important factor in injection well design. The water alternating gas (WAG) injection is increasingly applied globally as the effective enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method in oil wells. High injection pressure or low injection temperature could lead to compressive wellbore failure. The rock stress around the wellbore is a function of the wellbore fluid flow and it should be precisely determined to avoid the wellbore failure. The purpose of this study is to propose a method to ensure the stability of the wellbore for the WAG process using iterative coupling method. The parameters of pressures, temperature, saturations and stresses are obtained for the multiphase flow condition using mathematical modeling. In this study, finite difference method is used to solve pressure, temperature and saturations; and finite volume method is acquired to solve the rock stresses. Iterative coupling method is employed to improve the accuracy of the results. This study introduces improved iterative coupling method between flow and stress models to reduce the processing time of obtaining corrected stress and failure results. Wellbore stability model is developed to determine the maximum pressure values, which lead to wellbore failure in WAG injection process for some different boundary conditions.
Authors: Mahmood Bataee, Sonny Irawan, Syahrir Ridha
Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas
Language: English
Subfield: Fuel Technology
Field: Energy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,390
Funder: Universiti Teknologi Petronas
OpenAlex ID: W2216080026