PREDICTIVE THEORY FOR VISCOUS FINGERING IN COMPOSITIONAL DISPLACEMENT

Authors
BLUNT MJ BARKER JW RUBIN B MANSFIELD M CULVERWELL ID CHRISTIE MA
Citation
Mj. Blunt et al., PREDICTIVE THEORY FOR VISCOUS FINGERING IN COMPOSITIONAL DISPLACEMENT, SPE reservoir engineering, 9(1), 1994, pp. 73-80
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Energy & Fuels","Engineering, Petroleum
Journal title
SPE reservoir engineering → ACNP
ISSN journal
08859248
Volume
9
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
73 - 80
Database
ISI
SICI code
0885-9248(1994)9:1<73:PTFVFI>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
A theory of compositional viscous fingering with no adjustable paramet ers that reduces to the Todd and Longstaff model for miscible floods i s presented. The theory gives excellent predictive agreement with simu lation results for a wide range of recovery processes. The high-resolu tion compositional simulations used to validate the theory are the fir st to resolve viscous fingering adequately in flow other than miscible flow.