Solution Gas Drive in Heavy Oil Reservoirs

ISBN-13: 9783639149876 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 224 str.

Hussain Sheikha

Opis

Solution gas drive is one of the mechanisms by whichoil can be produced from the reservoirs. Solution gasdrive in heavy oil is well known for its anomalousbehavior that shows better performance taking intoaccount the high viscosity of heavy oil. Heavy oilreservoirs show better performance in terms of lowgas oil ratio and pressure decline rate. Theobjective of this book is to provide answers to twoquestions:- What is the role of micro-bubbles if this type ofbubble exists in solution gas drive in heavy oil?- How do changes in pressure gradient and pressuredecline rate affect gas mobility and oil recovery? The answer of these questions is achieved through asimple analysis of the measured data as well as theirnumerical modeling.

O autorze

Hussain Sheikha is currently a Reservoir Engineer with Penn West
Energy. He was a faculty member of Petroleum Engineering
Department at the Bright Star University of Technology, Libya
from 1994 to 2000 where he taught several petroleum engineering
courses. He graduated with a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from
the University of Calgary (2008).