Progression of injectivity damage with oily waste water in linear flow

作     者：Jin Lu Wojtanowicz Andrew K 

作者机构：InPetro Technologies Inc.9800 Centre Parkway#860HoustonTX 77036USA Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering Louisiana State UniversityPatrick F.Taylor HallRoom 2160BBaton RougeLA 70803USA 

出 版 物：《Petroleum Science》 (石油科学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第11卷第4期

页      面：550-562页

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学科分类：0820[工学-石油与天然气工程] 08[工学] 082002[工学-油气田开发工程] 

基　　金：part of a research program  Downhole Water Sink Technology Initiative (DWSTI) ―a Joint Industry Project (JIP) at LSU 

主　　题：Produced water injection injectivity decline permeability damage linear flow model,filtration model 

摘      要：Numerous laboratory experiments and field cases show that even very small amount of oil in injected water can cause severe injectivity damage. Although injectivity decline caused by oil droplets has been studied experimentally, there is still lack of an easy-to-use and widely accepted model to predict the decline behavior. In this work, we developed an analytical model to predict the time-dependent progress of the water permeability reduction in linear flow by analyzing experimental data obtained from linear core flooding. The model considers mass transfer of the oil phase from the produced water to the rock due capture effects by dispersion, advection and adsorption inside the rock. As the captured oil saturation increases, permeability reduces following the relative permeability drainage relationship. The reduction stabilizes when the oil saturation comes to an equilibrium value controlled by oil droplet size and injection velocity. The model is calibrated using published experimental data from prolonged core floods with oil- contaminated waste water. Theoretical runs of the model replicate all the effects known from experimental observations. Resulting from the model is a distributed change of permeability vs. time and distance from the point of injection that can be converted to the overall injectivity damage.