Miscible gas injection into the reservoirs for increasing oil production

Abstract

© 2020 Saint Petersburg 2020 - Geosciences: Converting Knowledge into Resources. All rights reserved. Gas injection into the oil reservoirs is one of the effective methods of increasing oil recovery. The gas injection into the reservoirs when it is fully or partially miscible with oil is a difficult physical process from the point of view of mathematical modelling. The simulation of miscible gas injection process by the simulator could give a recommendation about the amount of required gas, injection pressure and other technological parameters. In this work, an industrial software was used to simulate the miscible gas injection process for an Iranian oil reservoir. We determined the amount of gas injection, total oil and gas production and oil recovery factor in the various scenarios of gas recycling. The simulation results showed that the amount production gas was less than the injection gas. In addition, the total oil production and recovery factor was a function of the amount of miscible gas injection.