Simulating oil recovery during CO2 sequestration into a mature oil reservoir

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The continuous rising of anthropogenic emission into the atmosphere as a consequence of industrial growth is becoming uncontrollable, which causes heating up the atmosphere and changes in global climate. Therefore, CO2 emission becomes a big problem and key issue in environmental concerns. There are several options discussed for reducing the amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere. CO2 sequestration is one of these options, which involves the capture of CO2 from hydrocarbon emission sources, e.g. power plants, the injection and storage of CO2 into deep geological formations, e.g. depleted oil reservoirs. The complexity in the structure of geological formations and the processes involved in this method necessitates the use of numerical simulations in revealing the potential problems, determining feasibility, storage capacity, and life span credibility. Field K having 32o API gravity oil in a carbonate formation from southeast Turkey was studied. Field K was put on production in 1982 and produced until 2006, which was very close to its economic lifetime. Thus, it was considered as a candidate for enhanced oil recovery and CO2 sequestration. Reservoir rock and fluid data was first interpreted with available well logging, core and drill stem test data. Monte Carlo simulation was used to evaluate the probable reserve that was 7 million STB, original oil in place (OOIP). The data were then merged into CMG/STARS simulator. History matching study was done with production data to verify the results of the simulator with field data. After obtaining a good match, the different scenarios were realized by using the simulator. From the results of simulation runs, it was realized that CO2 injection can be applied to increase oil recovery, but sequestering of high amount of CO2 was found out to be inappropriate for field K. Therefore, it was decided to focus on oil recovery while CO2 was sequestered within the reservoir. Oil recovery was about 23% of OOIP in 2006 for field K, it reached to 43 % of OOIP by injecting

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Y. Z. Pamukçu, “Simulating oil recovery during CO2 sequestration into a mature oil reservoir,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2006.