DETERMINING THE DISTRIBUTION TEMPERATURE FIELD AROUND THE STEAM INJECTING WELLS BY USING THE ECLIPSETM SIMULATOR

Abstract

The paper is integrant part of a study regarding the efficiency of the steam injection used as a thermal recovery method. The main scope of this paper is to determine the distribution of the temperature field around the steam injection wells and to show, qualitatively, the phenomenonas that are taking place into an oil reservoir in the case of thermal stimulations. In this scope it was build a simulation model of a reservoir suitable for thermal stimulation: high values of oil viscosity (thousands and tens of thousands of cP), porosity (over 25 %), permeabilities (hundreds and thousands of mD) density (more than 945 kg/m3), relatively shallow reservoirs (up to 900 m), low values of gas oil ratio and formation volume factor. The simulation grid is Cartesian corner point gird, and the exploitation method (solution) is an experimental five spot pattern. The simulator used is ECLIPSE compositional thermal E500 produced and commercialized by Schlumberger company.