RESEARCH ARTICLE
Investigation of the Features About Steam Breakthrough in Heavy Oil Reservoirs During Steam Injection
Dong Xiao-Hu*, Liu Hui-Qing
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2012Volume: 5
First Page: 1
Last Page: 6
Publisher Id: TOPEJ-5-1
DOI: 10.2174/1874834101205010001
Article History:
Received Date: 1/11/2011Revision Received Date: 29/12/2011
Acceptance Date: 30/12/2011
Electronic publication date: 23/2/2012
Collection year: 2012
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
With the further exploitation of heavy oil reservoirs, steam breakthrough blocks are seen in more and more areas and pose increasing damage. Based on the qualitative understanding of the formation mechanism of steam channeling, the concepts of steaming time and heat invading volume are introduced. After that, the geological models of steam injection of heavy oil reservoirs are established. We describe the sensitive factors affecting the steam channeling in a relatively accurate manner and mainly study the influence of several parameters on steaming time and heat invading volume. The results present that the possibility of steam channeling is higher and the time it takes is shorter when the permeability is greater, viscosity higher, depth shallower, steaming strength bigger and layer looser. Orthogonal design results show that the k-values of permeability on steaming time and heat invading volume are 7.43, 19.0 respectively, it has the most significant influence on two indicators.
