(October 2005)
The results of this project are being applied in current research to investigate storage of carbon dioxide emissions in aquifers and coal beds. Building on the expertise gained in this project, project performers now are designing a high-performance industrial compositional streamline simulator (CSLS). The development of a CSLS is being supported by a new DOE cooperative agreement (NT15530).
Publications
Final Report - ""High-Resolution Prediction of Gas Injection Process Performance for Heterogeneous Reservoirs"" [PDF-9.08MB], Prepared for the U.S Department of Energy Under Grant No. DE-FC26-00BC15319. Principal Investigator: Franklin M. Orr Jr., Department of Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University.
Jessen, K., Kovscek, A, and Orr, F.M. Jr., "Increasing CO2 Storage in Oil Recovery," Energy Conversion and Management, 46, (2005), pp. 293-311.
Jessen, K., and Orr, F.M. Jr., "Gas Cycling and the Development of Miscibility in Condensate Reservoirs," SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering, 7(5), pp. 334-341, (2004).
Jessen, K., Stenby, E.H. and Orr, F.M. Jr., "Interplay of Phase Behavior and Numerical Dispersion in Finite Difference Compositional Simulation," SPE Journal, 9(2), pp. 193-201, (2004).
Jessen, K., and Orr, F.M. Jr., "Gravity Segregation and Compositional Streamline Simulation," SPE 89448, Presented at the 2004 SPE/DOE Fourteenth Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, Tulsa, OK, April 17-21, 2004. (accepted for SPE Journal).
Cinar, Y, Jessen, K., Berenblyum, R., Juanes, R., and Orr, F.M Jr., "An Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Cross-Flow Effects in Two-Phase Displacements," SPE 90568, Presented at the Society of Petroleum Engineers' Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition (SPE ATCE), Houston, TX, October 2004. (Submitted for publication).
Cinar Y., Marquez S., and Orr, F.M. Jr., "Effect of IFT Variation and Wettability on Three-Phase Relative Permeability," SPE 90572, SPE ATCE, September 26-29, Houston, TX, 2004.
Cinar Y. And Orr, F.M. Jr., "Measurement of Three-Phase Relative Permeability with IFT Variation," SPE 89419, SPE REE, (February 2005, pp. 33-43.
Mallison, B., Gerritsen, M., Jessen, K. and Orr, F.M. Jr, "High Order Upwind Schemes for Two-Phase, Multicomponent Flow," SPE 79691, presented at the SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium, Houston, TX, February 3-5, 2003 (accepted for SPE Journal).
Seto, C.J, Jessen, K., and Orr, F.M. Jr., "Compositional Streamline Simulation of Field-Scale Condensate Vaporization by Gas Injection," SPE 79690, SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium, Houston, TX, February 3-5, 2003.
Jessen, K., and Orr, F.M. Jr., "Compositional Streamline Simulation," SPE 77379, SPE ATCE, San Antonio, TX, September 29-October 2, 2002.
Jessen, K., Wang, Y., Ermakov, P., Zhu, J., and Orr, F.M., Jr., "Fast, Approximate Solutions for 1-D Multicomponent Gas Injection Problems," SPE Journal, 6(4), (2001).
Berenblyum, R.A., Shapiro, A.A., Jessen, K., Stenby, E.H., and Orr, F.M. Jr.:,"Black Oil Streamline Simulator with Capillary Effects", SPE 84037, SPE ATCE, October 5-8, 2003, Denver, CO.