Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-01-26T21:31:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 JhonMoronTarifa_DISSERT.pdf: 6817189 bytes, checksum: 7bd9115ec364a2c40e8f294d8dd1dcb2 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-02-02T19:37:55Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 JhonMoronTarifa_DISSERT.pdf: 6817189 bytes, checksum: 7bd9115ec364a2c40e8f294d8dd1dcb2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-02T19:37:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JhonMoronTarifa_DISSERT.pdf: 6817189 bytes, checksum: 7bd9115ec364a2c40e8f294d8dd1dcb2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-15 / A combust?o in situ (CIS) ? o m?todo de recupera??o t?rmico mais antigo. Este m?todo consiste na queima parcial do ?leo in situ, cujo objetivo ? gerar uma frente de combust?o que ajude no movimento do ?leo. Essa frente de combust?o aquece as zonas pr?ximas, logrando a redu??o da viscosidade do ?leo e permitindo o seu deslocamento at? o po?o produtor. Apesar de parecer um processo f?cil, a combust?o in situ engloba uma s?rie de mecanismos complexos que mesmo na atualidade a torna dif?cil de representar atrav?s de modelos anal?ticos, f?sicos e de simula??o num?rica. O objetivo do trabalho ? analisar e determinar os par?metros que t?m influ?ncia no processo, destacando a cin?tica (energia de ativa??o, coeficiente de Arrhenius e porcentagem de craqueamento para a produ??o de coque durante o processo) de tr?s diferentes modelos de rea??es qu?micas e da vaz?o de inje??o do ar. Para verificar a aplicabilidade do processo no Brasil foi realizado um estudo de simula??o em reservat?rios de ?leo pesado com caracter?sticas do Nordeste Brasileiro. As simula??es foram realizadas utilizando o m?dulo ?STARS? da ?Computer Modelling Group?, com o objetivo de realizar estudos de m?todos de recupera??o avan?ada de ?leo. Dentre todos os par?metros analisados, a energia de ativa??o-fator pr?-exponencial apresentou a maior influ?ncia, ou seja, quanto menor o valor da energia de ativa??o-fator pr?-exponencial maior a fra??o de ?leo recuperada. A porcentagem de craqueamento mostrou uma forte influ?ncia no processo, devido a que enquanto menor for a quantidade de coque formado maior ? volume de ?leo recuperado. / In situ Combustion (CIS) is the oldest thermal method of oil recovery. This method consists of partial combustion of in situ oil, its goal is to generate a combustion front that helps to move the oil. This combustion front will heat the surrounding areas, achieving a reduction in oil viscosity and allowing its displacement into the production well. It may seem a simple process, however in situ combustion involves a series of complex mechanisms that difficult until today its representation through analytical models, physical models and numerical simulation. The aim of this investigation is to analyze and determine the parameters that influence the process, highlighting the kinetics of the process (activation energy, Arrhenius coefficient and percentage of cracking for the production of coke) three different models of chemical reactions and the air injection rate. To verify the applicability of the process in Brazil a simulation study was conducted in heavy oil reservoirs with characteristics of the Brazilian Northeast. The simulations were performed using the "STARS" module from the "Computer Modelling Group", which objective is to study methods of enhanced oil recovery. Among all the analyzed parameters, the activation energy-pre-exponential factor showed the greatest influence, that is, the lower the value of the activation energy-preexponential factor the higher the fraction of oil recovery. The cracking percentage also showed a strong influence in the process, the smaller the amount of coke formed the larger volume of oil recovery.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:08:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EdsonAA_DISSERT.pdf: 3674397 bytes, checksum: 68989b5d2aabcb74990cc326c009fbc6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-17 / The method "toe-to-heel air injection" (THAITM) is a process of enhanced oil recovery, which is the integration of in-situ combustion with technological advances in drilling horizontal wells. This method uses horizontal wells as producers of oil, keeping vertical injection wells to inject air. This process has not yet been applied in Brazil, making it necessary, evaluation of these new technologies applied to local realities, therefore, this study aimed to perform a parametric study of the combustion process with in-situ oil production in horizontal wells, using a semi synthetic reservoir, with characteristics of the Brazilian Northeast basin. The simulations were performed in a commercial software "STARS" (Steam, Thermal, and Advanced Processes Reservoir Simulator), from CMG (Computer Modelling Group). The following operating parameters were analyzed: air rate, configuration of producer wells and oxygen concentration. A sensitivity study on cumulative oil (Np) was performed with the technique of experimental design, with a mixed model of two and three levels (32x22), a total of 36 runs. Also, it was done a technical economic estimative for each model of fluid. The results showed that injection rate was the most influence parameter on oil recovery, for both studied models, well arrangement depends on fluid model, and oxygen concentration favors recovery oil. The process can be profitable depends on air rate / O m?todo toe-to-heel air injection (THAITM) ? um processo de recupera??o de petr?leo avan?ado, que consiste na integra??o da combust?o in-situ com os avan?os tecnol?gicos na perfura??o de po?os horizontais. Este m?todo utiliza po?os horizontais como produtores de ?leo, mantendo po?os injetores verticais para a inje??o de ar. Este processo ainda n?o foi aplicado no Brasil, tornando necess?rio, avalia??o destas novas tecnologias aplicadas ?s realidades locais, por isso, este trabalho teve como objetivo principal realizar um estudo param?trico do processo de combust?o in-situ com produ??o de ?leo em po?os horizontais, usando um reservat?rio semi sint?tico, com caracter?sticas das encontradas no Nordeste Brasileiro. As simula??es foram realizadas em um programa comercial de processos t?rmicos, denominado STARS (Steam, Thermal, and Advanced Processes Reservoir Simulator), da empresa CMG (Computer Modelling Group). Foram realizadas an?lises dos par?metros operacionais: vaz?es de inje??o, configura??o dos po?os e concentra??o de oxig?nio. O estudo de sensibilidade dos fatores foi realizado com a t?cnica de an?lise de planejamento experimental, com uma combina??o de dois e tr?s n?veis (32x22), totalizando 36 simula??es, 18 para cada modelo, em fun??o da produ??o acumulada de ?leo (Np). Tamb?m foi realizada uma estimativa econ?mica de an?lise de custo para cada modelo de fluido. Os resultados mostraram que a configura??o de po?os e a vaz?o de inje??o foram o par?metro que apresentou maior influ?ncia no ?leo recuperado para os dois modelos de fluidos analisados, respectivamente, que a configura??o de po?os ? influenciada pelo modelo de fluido, e que um aumento da concentra??o de oxig?nio favorece a recupera??o de ?leo, no processo estudado. Tamb?m foi encontrado que o processo pode ser rent?vel dependendo da quantidade de ar injetado no processo

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:08:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 HeloizeSP_DISSERT.pdf: 5210676 bytes, checksum: 2206731cf8d9981475df85f8e57f31d2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-06 / The occurrence of heavy oil reservoirs have increased substantially and, due to the high viscosity characteristic of this type of oil, conventional recovery methods can not be applied. Thermal methods have been studied for the recovery of this type of oil, with a main objective to reduce its viscosity, by increasing the reservoir temperature, favoring the mobility of the oil and allowing an increasing in the productivity rate of the fields. In situ combustion (ISC) is a thermal recovery method in which heat is produced inside the reservoir by the combustion of part of the oil with injected oxygen, contrasting with the injection of fluid that is heated in the surface for subsequent injection, which leads to loss heat during the trajectory to the reservoir. The ISC is a favorable method for recovery of heavy oil, but it is still difficult to be field implemented. This work had as an objective the parametric analysis of ISC process applied to a semi-synthetic reservoir with characteristics of the Brazilian Northeast reservoirs using vertical production and vertical injection wells, as the air flow injection and the wells completions. For the analysis, was used a commercial program for simulation of oil reservoirs using thermal processes, called Steam, Thermal and Advanced Processes Reservoir Simulator (STARS) from Computer Modelling Group (CMG). From the results it was possible to analyze the efficiency of the ISC process in heavy oil reservoirs by increasing the reservoir temperature, providing a large decrease in oil viscosity, increasing its mobility inside the reservoir, as well as the improvement in the quality of this oil and therefore increasing significantly its recovered fraction. Among the analyzed parameters, the flow rate of air injection was the one which had greater influence in ISC, obtaining higher recovery factor the higher is the flow rate of injection, due to the greater amount of oxygen while ensuring the maintenance of the combustion front / A ocorr?ncia de ?leos pesados e ultrapesados v?m aumentando sensivelmente e, devido ? alta viscosidade caracter?stica deste tipo de ?leo, n?o podem ser aplicados os m?todos convencionais de recupera??o. M?todos t?rmicos v?m sendo estudados para recupera??o deste tipo de ?leo, tendo como principal objetivo reduzir a sua viscosidade atrav?s do aumento da temperatura do reservat?rio, favorecendo a mobilidade do ?leo e permitindo um aumento no ?ndice de produtividade dos campos. A Combust?o in situ (CIS) ? um m?todo t?rmico de recupera??o em que o calor ? produzido dentro do reservat?rio pela combust?o de parte do ?leo com oxig?nio injetado, contrastando com a inje??o de fluido aquecido ainda na superf?cie para posterior inje??o, o que acarreta perda de calor durante o trajeto ao reservat?rio. A CIS ? um m?todo prop?cio para recupera??o de ?leo pesado, por?m ainda ? complexo de ser implementado. Este trabalho teve como objetivo a an?lise param?trica do processo CIS aplicado a um reservat?rio semissint?tico com caracter?sticas do Nordeste Brasileiro utilizando po?os verticais de produ??o e inje??o, assim como a vaz?o de inje??o de ar e as completa??es dos po?os. Para an?lise do m?todo foi utilizado um programa comercial de simula??o de reservat?rios de petr?leo usando processos t?rmicos, denominado Steam, Thermal and Advanced Processes Reservoir Simulator (STARS) do Computer Modelling Group (CMG). A partir dos resultados obtidos foi poss?vel comprovar a efici?ncia do processo CIS em reservat?rios de ?leo pesado atrav?s do aumento da temperatura do reservat?rio, promovendo uma grande diminui??o na viscosidade do ?leo, aumentando sua mobilidade no interior do reservat?rio, assim como a melhora na qualidade desse ?leo e aumentando assim, significativamente a sua fra??o recuperada. Dentre os par?metros analisados, a vaz?o de inje??o de ar foi a que apresentou maior influ?ncia no processo CIS, obtendo maior fator de recupera??o quanto maior a vaz?o de inje??o, sendo devido a maior quantidade de oxig?nio garantindo a manuten??o da frente de combust?o

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-07-11T17:35:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MirellaLopesDaRocha_DISSERT.pdf: 4193744 bytes, checksum: f2fd7a25cfa4b47013fb029c75d748a3 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-07-18T17:12:19Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 MirellaLopesDaRocha_DISSERT.pdf: 4193744 bytes, checksum: f2fd7a25cfa4b47013fb029c75d748a3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-18T17:12:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MirellaLopesDaRocha_DISSERT.pdf: 4193744 bytes, checksum: f2fd7a25cfa4b47013fb029c75d748a3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-22 / Com um n?mero crescente de campos maduros, a recupera??o de ?leo pesado tem se apresentado um dos grandes desafios do setor petrol?fero. O Nordeste Brasileiro, por exemplo, possui in?meros reservat?rio de ?leo pesado que possam vir a ser explorados com a utiliza??o de m?todos t?rmicos. Dentre os tipos de m?todos utilizados para ?leos pesados, destaca-se o m?todo da combust?o in-situ, uma t?cnica no qual o calor ? produzido dentro do reservat?rio, diferente da inje??o de fluido aquecido em que o calor ? gerado na superf?cie e transportado para o reservat?rio. Neste tipo de processo, ? comum utilizar po?os verticais como injetores e produtores. Contudo, m?todos que utilizam po?os horizontais como produtores de ?leo s?o cada vez mais estudados devido ? maior ?rea de contato entre a forma??o e a frente de combust?o. Sendo assim, o objetivo principal do presente trabalho foi estudar as diferentes configura??es de po?os (CIS, THAITM e CAGD) no processo de combust?o in-situ, na recupera??o de ?leo, utilizando um reservat?rio semissint?tico com caracter?sticas do Nordeste Brasileiro. O m?todo ?toe-to-heel air injection? (THAITM) ? um processo de recupera??o de petr?leo avan?ado, que consiste na integra??o da combust?o in-situ com os avan?os tecnol?gicos na perfura??o de po?os horizontais. Este m?todo utiliza po?os horizontais como produtores de ?leo, mantendo po?os injetores verticais para a inje??o de ar. O processo de drenagem de ?leo por diferencial gravitacional assistida com combust?o (CAGD) ? um sistema integrado, nesta configura??o o po?o injetor horizontal ? perfurado na parte superior de forma??o,com um po?o horizontal produtor na se??o inferior. As simula??es foram realizadas em um programa comercial de processos t?rmicos, denominado ?STARS? (Steam, Thermal, and Advanced Processes Reservoir Simulator), da empresa CMG (Computer Modelling Group). Foi realizada uma an?lise da vaz?o de inje??o de ar e verificou-se que cada m?todo possu?a um limite m?ximo de inje??o para o modelo base, mostrando que passando desse limite de inje??o de ar, havia redu??o da produ??o acumulada de ?leo. Foram realizadas an?lises dos par?metros operacionais: vaz?es de inje??o, configura??o e completa??o dos po?os. Na an?lise de sensibilidade foi encontrado que a vaz?o de inje??o de ar apresentou maior influ?ncia no m?todo THAI, j? no m?todo CIS a completa??o dos po?os foi o par?metro mais influente e no CAGD a configura??o de po?os foi o que apresentou maior influ?ncia na fra??o recuperada. Os resultados econ?micos mostraram que o melhor caso obtido foi o m?todo CAGD,pois, apesar de possuir maior custo inicial, foi o que apresentou melhor retorno financeiro quando comparado com os melhores casos do CIS e THAI. / With an increasing number of mature fields, heavy oil recovery has performed one of the great challenges of the oil industry. The Brazilian Northeast, for example, has numerous heavy oil reservoirs are explored with the use of thermal methods. Among the types of methods used for heavy oil, there is the method of in-situ combustion, a technique in which heat is produced within the container, unlike the injection of heated fluid when the heat is generated at the surface and transported to the reservoir. In this type of process, it is common to use vertical wells as injectors and producers. However, methods which use horizontal wells like oil producers are increasingly studied because of greater contact area between the formation and combustion front. Thus, the main objective of this work was to study the different configurations of wells (CIS THAITM and CAGD) in the process of in-situ combustion in oil recovery using a semi-synthetic tank with Brazilian Northeast features. The method "toe-to-heel air injection" (THAITM) is a process of enhanced oil recovery, which is the integration of in-situ combustion with technological advances in drilling horizontal wells. This method uses horizontal wells such as oil producers, keeping vertical injection wells for injecting air. The oil drain process by differential gravitational assisted with combustion (CAGD) is an integrated, in this configuration the horizontal injector well is drilled at the top formation with a horizontal production well in the lower section. The simulations were performed in a commercial program of thermal processes, called "STARS" (Steam, Thermal, and Advanced Processes Reservoir Simulator), the company CMG (Computer Modelling Group). An analysis of the air flow injection was performed and it was found that each method had a maximum injection to the base model, a show that through this air injection limit was reduced cumulative production of oil. Analyses of operating parameters were used: injection flow, configuration and completion of wells. In the sensitivity analysis we found that the air injection flow showed greater influence on THAI method, since the CIS method the completion of the wells was the most influential parameter and CAGD configuration wells showed the greatest influence in the recovered fraction. The economic results have shown that the best case obtained in CAGD method because, despite having higher initial cost showed the best financial return compared to the best cases the CIS and THAI.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:08:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 HumbertoSC_DISSERT.pdf: 7792135 bytes, checksum: 5204c60825f60e9f74c5f24e46e8aa4e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-07-29 / Nearly 3 x 1011 m3 of medium and light oils will remain in reservoirs worldwide after conventional recovery methods have been exhausted and much of this volume would be recovered by Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) methods. The in-situ combustion (ISC) is an EOR method in which an oxygen-containing gas is injected into a reservoir where it reacts with the crude oil to create a high-temperature combustion front that is propagated through the reservoir. The High Pressure Air Injection (HPAI) method is a particular denomination of the air injection process applied in light oil reservoirs, for which the combustion reactions are dominant between 150 and 300?C and the generation of flue gas is the main factor to the oil displacement. A simulation model of a homogeneous reservoir was built to study, which was initially undergone to primary production, for 3 years, next by a waterflooding process for 21 more years. At this point, with the mature condition established into the reservoir, three variations of this model were selected, according to the recovery factors (RF) reached, for study the in-situ combustion (HPAI) technique. Next to this, a sensitivity analysis on the RF of characteristic operational parameters of the method was carried out: air injection rate per well, oxygen concentration into the injected gas, patterns of air injection and wells perforations configuration. This analysis, for 10 more years of production time, was performed with assistance of the central composite design. The reservoir behavior and the impacts of chemical reactions parameters and of reservoir particularities on the RF were also evaluated. An economic analysis and a study to maximize the RF of the process were also carried out. The simulation runs were performed in the simulator of thermal processes in reservoirs STARS (Steam, Thermal, and Advanced Processes Reservoir Simulator) from CMG (Computer Modelling Group). The results showed the incremental RF were small and the net present value (NPV) is affected by high initial investments to compress the air. It was noticed that the adoption of high oxygen concentration into the injected gas and of the five spot pattern tends to improve the RF, and the wells perforations configuration has more influence with the increase of the oil thickness. Simulated cases relating to the reservoir particularities showed that smaller residual oil saturations to gas lead to greater RF and the presence of heterogeneities results in important variations on the RF and on the production curves / Aproximadamente 3 x 1011 m3 de ?leos m?dios e leves restar?o nos reservat?rios ao redor do mundo ap?s a aplica??o dos m?todos convencionais de recupera??o e grande parte desse volume seria recuper?vel com o uso de m?todos especiais. A combust?o in-situ (CIS) ? um m?todo de recupera??o avan?ada de petr?leo no qual um g?s que cont?m oxig?nio ? injetado no reservat?rio onde reage com o ?leo cru para criar uma frente de combust?o de alta temperatura que se propaga pelo reservat?rio. O m?todo HPAI (High Pressure Air Injection) ? uma denomina??o particular do processo de inje??o de ar aplicado em reservat?rios de ?leos leves, onde as rea??es de combust?o s?o dominantes entre 150 e 300?C e a gera??o de flue gas ? o principal fator de deslocamento do ?leo. Um modelo de simula??o de fluxo de um reservat?rio homog?neo foi constru?do para o estudo, o qual foi inicialmente submetido ? produ??o prim?ria, por 3 anos, e em seguida, ao processo de inje??o de ?gua por mais 21 anos. Nesse ponto, com a condi??o madura estabelecida no reservat?rio, foram selecionadas tr?s varia??es desse modelo, de acordo com o fator de recupera??o (FR) obtido, para o estudo da t?cnica de combust?o in-situ (HPAI). Em seguida realizou-se uma an?lise de sensibilidade sobre o FR de par?metros operacionais pr?prios do m?todo: vaz?o de inje??o de ar por po?o, concentra??o de oxig?nio no g?s injetado, esquema de inje??o de ar e configura??o dos canhoneados dos po?os. Essa an?lise, para um per?odo adicional de at? 10 anos produ??o, foi efetuada com o aux?lio da t?cnica de planejamento composto central. O comportamento do reservat?rio e os impactos de par?metros envolvendo as rea??es qu?micas e de particularidades de reservat?rio sobre o FR tamb?m foram avaliados. Adicionalmente foram elaborados uma an?lise econ?mica e um estudo de maximiza??o do FR do processo. As simula??es foram realizadas com o simulador de processos t?rmicos em reservat?rios STARS (Steam, Thermal and Advanced Process Reservoir Simulation) da CMG (Computer Modelling Group). Os resultados mostraram que os FR incrementais foram baixos e que o valor presente l?quido (VPL) ? impactado negativamente pelos elevados investimentos iniciais para compress?o do ar. Observou-se que a ado??o de maiores concentra??es de oxig?nio no g?s injetado e do esquema de inje??o de ar tipo five spot tende a favorecer o FR, e que a configura??o dos canhoneados dos po?os apresenta influ?ncia crescente com o aumento da espessura porosa com ?leo do reservat?rio. Casos simulados referentes ?s particularidades de reservat?rio indicaram que menores satura??es residuais de ?leo ao g?s levam a FR maiores e que a exist?ncia de heterogeneidades resulta em varia??es consider?veis nos FR e nas curvas de produ??o