Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:09:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseCSJ_TESE_PARCIAL.pdf: 3198681 bytes, checksum: 3124bf4fcf475e3c972bb5266fef2405 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-02-20 / Steam injection is a method usually applied to very viscous oils and consists of injecting heat to reduce the viscosity and, therefore, increase the oil mobility, improving the oil production. For designing a steam injection project it is necessary to have a reservoir simulation in order to define the various parameters necessary for an efficient heat reservoir management, and with this, improve the recovery factor of the reservoir. The purpose of this work is to show the influence of the coupled wellbore/reservoir on the thermal simulation of reservoirs under cyclic steam stimulation. In this study, the methodology used in the solution of the problem involved the development of a wellbore model for the integration of steam flow model in injection wellbores, VapMec, and a blackoil reservoir model for the injection of cyclic steam in oil reservoirs. Thus, case studies were developed for shallow and deep reservoirs, whereas the usual configurations of injector well existing in the oil industry, i.e., conventional tubing without packer, conventional tubing with packer and insulated tubing with packer. A comparative study of the injection and production parameters was performed, always considering the same operational conditions, for the two simulation models, non-coupled and a coupled model. It was observed that the results are very similar for the specified well injection rate, whereas significant differences for the specified well pressure. Finally, on the basis of computational experiments, it was concluded that the influence of the coupled wellbore/reservoir in thermal simulations using cyclic steam injection as an enhanced oil recovery method is greater for the specified well pressure, while for the specified well injection rate, the steam flow model for the injector well and the reservoir may be simulated in a non- coupled way / A inje??o de vapor ? um m?todo aplicado geralmente em ?leos muito viscosos e consiste em injetar calor para reduzir a viscosidade e, portanto, aumentar a mobilidade do ?leo, resultando em incremento na produ??o dos po?os. Para o planejamento de um projeto de inje??o de vapor ? necess?rio efetuar um estudo de reservat?rio com o objetivo de se definir os v?rios par?metros necess?rios para um eficiente gerenciamento de calor no meio poroso e, com isto, melhorar o fator de recupera??o do reservat?rio. Neste estudo, para o sistema de inje??o, representado pelo po?o injetor, ? normalmente adotado um modelo padr?o em todos os casos estudados, sendo desta forma, a integra??o entre o po?o injetor e o reservat?rio, realizada de forma bastante simplificada. Este trabalho tem como objetivo mostrar a influ?ncia do acoplamento do po?o injetor nas simula??es t?rmicas de reservat?rios submetidos ? inje??o c?clica de vapor. Neste estudo, a metodologia utilizada na solu??o do problema envolveu o desenvolvimento de um modelo de po?o para a integra??o do modelo de escoamento de vapor em po?os de petr?leo, VapMec, e o modelo de reservat?rio tipo beta para a inje??o c?clica de vapor em reservat?rios de petr?leo. Assim, desenvolveram-se estudos de caso para reservat?rios rasos e profundos, considerando as principais configura??es de po?o injetor existentes na ind?stria de petr?leo, ou seja, coluna convencional sem packer, coluna convencional com packer e coluna isolada com packer. Foi realizado um estudo comparativo dos par?metros de inje??o e produ??o obtidos na simula??o, considerando sempre as mesmas condi??es de opera??o, para os dois modelos de simula??o, sendo um modelo n?o acoplado e o outro modelo acoplado. Observou-se que os resultados entre os modelos s?o bastante similares para a situa??o de vaz?o de inje??o igual ? vaz?o especificada, tendo sido encontrado diferen?as significativas na situa??o em que a press?o de inje??o ? igual ? press?o especificada. Finalmente, com base nos experimentos computacionais, foi poss?vel concluir que a influ?ncia do acoplamento do po?o injetor nos estudos de reservat?rios que utilizam a inje??o c?clica de vapor como m?todo especial de recupera??o ? maior para a condi??o de press?o especificada, sendo que para a condi??o de vaz?o especificada, o modelo de escoamento no po?o injetor e o modelo do reservat?rio podem ser simulados de forma n?o integrada

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:08:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TommyAP_capa_ate_cap4.pdf: 809913 bytes, checksum: 0090aa039ef326f260cb40945133e6d1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-04-27 / Petr?leo Brasileiro SA - PETROBRAS / The gas injection has become the most important IOR process in the United States. Furthermore, the year 2006 marks the first time the gas injection IOR production has surpassed that of steam injection. In Brazil, the installation of a petrochemical complex in the Northeast of Brazil (Bahia State) offers opportunities for the injection of gases in the fields located in the Rec?ncavo Basin. Field-scale gas injection applications have almost always been associated with design and operational difficulties. The mobility ratio, which controls the volumetric sweep, between the injected gas and displaced oil bank in gas processes, is typically unfavorable due to the relatively low viscosity of the injected gas. Furthermore, the difference between their densities results in severe gravity segregation of fluids in the reservoirs, consequently leading to poor control in the volumetric sweep. Nowadays, from the above applications of gas injection, the WAG process is most popular. However, in attempting to solve the mobility problems, the WAG process gives rise to other problems associated with increased water saturation in the reservoir including diminished gas injectivity and increased competition to the flow of oil. The low field performance of WAG floods with oil recoveries in the range of 5-10% is a clear indication of these problems. In order to find na effective alternative to WAG, the Gas Assisted Gravity Drainage (GAGD) was developed. This process is designed to take advantage of gravity force to allow vertical segregation between the injected CO2 and reservoir crude oil due to their density difference. This process consists of placing horizontal producers near the bottom of the pay zone and injecting g?s through existing vertical wells in field. Homogeneous models were used in this work which can be extrapolated to commercial application for fields located in the Northeast of Brazil. The simulations were performed in a CMG simulator, the STARS 2007.11, where some parameters and their interactions were analyzed. The results have shown that the CO2 injection in GAGD process increased significantly the rate and the final recovery of oil / A inje??o de g?s tem sido o m?todo de recupera??o mais utilizado nos Estados Unidos e o ano de 2006 marca a primeira vez em que a produ??o proveniente dos processos de inje??o de g?s superou os de inje??o de vapor. No Brasil, a instala??o do complexo petroqu?mico, no estado da Bahia, oferece oportunidades para inje??o de g?s na Bacia do Rec?ncavo. As aplica??es de inje??o de g?s em campo foram quase sempre associadas com dificuldades operacionais e de projetos. A raz?o de mobilidade, que controla a varredura volum?trica, entre o g?s injetado e o banco de ?leo deslocado, ? tipicamente desfavor?vel devido ? baixa viscosidade do g?s. Al?m de que a diferen?a entre as densidades conduz a segrega??o gravitacional severa dos fluidos no reservat?rio e consequentemente, levando a um pobre controle na varredura volum?trica. Atualmente, grande parte dos projetos de inje??o de g?s no mundo ? do tipo WAG. Entretanto, na tentativa de resolver os problemas de mobilidade, o processo WAG causa outros problemas como o aumento na satura??o de ?gua no reservat?rio, incluindo a diminui??o na injetividade do g?s e aumento da competi??o no fluxo do ?leo. O baixo desempenho na recupera??o de ?leo deste processo no campo, na ordem de 5 a 10%, ? uma clara indica??o destes problemas. A fim de encontrar uma alternativa eficaz para o WAG, o processo de drenagem gravitacional assistida por inje??o de g?s (GAGD) foi desenvolvido. O processo GAGD ? projetado para tomar vantagem da for?a gravitacional causando assim, a segrega??o vertical entre o CO2 injetado e a reserva de ?leo devido ? diferen?a de densidades. Este processo consiste na coloca??o de po?os produtores horizontais pr?ximos a parte inferior da zona de ?leo e inje??o de g?s atrav?s de po?os verticais existentes em campo. Modelos homog?neos foram utilizados neste trabalho os quais podem ser extrapolados para aplica??o comercial em campos localizados no nordeste brasileiro. As simula??es foram realizadas no simulador da CMG STARS 2007.11, sendo analisados alguns par?metros e suas intera??es. Os resultados mostraram que a inje??o de CO2 no processo GAGD aumentou significativamente a vaz?o e a recupera??o final de ?leo

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:08:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Janaina Medeiros Dantas Barbosa_DISSERT_01_35.pdf: 3284535 bytes, checksum: 7cd819680331f233db6c8299e7522b7b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-12 / Petr?leo Brasileiro SA - PETROBRAS / Continuous steam injection is one of heavy oil thermal recovery methods used in the Brazilian Northeast because of high occurrence of heavy oil reservoir. In this process, the oil into the reservoir is heated while reduces, substantially, its viscosity and improves the production. This work analyzed how the shaly sand layers influenced in the recovery. The studied models were synthetics, but the used reservoir data can be extrapolated to real situations of Potiguar Basin. The modeling was executed using the STARS - Steam Thermal and Advanced Process Reservoir Simulator - whose version was 2007.10. STARS is a tool of CMG Computer Modeling Group. The study was conducted in two stages, the first we analyzed the influence of reservoir parameters in the thermal process, so some of these were studied, including: horizontal permeability of the reservoir and the layer of shaly sand, ratio of horizontal permeability to vertical permeability, the influence of capillary pressure layer of shaly sand and as the location and dimensions of this heterogeneity can affect the productivity of oil. Among the parameters studied the horizontal permeability of the reservoir showed the most significant influence on the process followed by diversity. In the second stage three models were selected and studied some operational parameters such as injection rate, distance between wells, production time and completion intervals. Among the operating parameters studied the low rate and intermediate distances between wells showed the best recoveries / A inje??o cont?nua de vapor ? um dos m?todos t?rmicos de recupera??o de ?leos pesados utilizados no Nordeste Brasileiro, devido ? grande ocorr?ncia de reservat?rios contendo este tipo de ?leo. Este processo consiste em aquecer o ?leo existente no reservat?rio diminuindo substancialmente a sua viscosidade melhorando assim, a sua produ??o. Neste trabalho foi estudada qual a influ?ncia da presen?a de camadas de areia argilosas no reservat?rio para este tipo de recupera??o. Os modelos s?o sint?ticos, por?m com dados de reservat?rios que podem ser extrapolados para situa??es de aplica??es pr?ticas na Bacia Potiguar que apresenta reservat?rios com essa heterogeneidade. A modelagem foi implementada no simulador de recupera??o t?rmica STARS (Steam, Thermal, and Advanced Processes Reservoir Simulator) vers?o 2007.10 da CMG (Computer Modelling Group). O estudo foi realizado em duas etapas, na primeira foi analisada a influ?ncia dos par?metros de reservat?rio neste processo t?rmico, sendo assim, alguns desses foram estudados, dentre eles: permeabilidade horizontal do reservat?rio e da camada de areia argilosa, rela??o da permeabilidade horizontal com a permeabilidade vertical, influ?ncia da press?o capilar da camada de areia argilosa e como a localiza??o e as dimens?es dessa heterogeneidade podem afetar a produtividade de ?leo. Dentre os par?metros estudados a permeabilidade horizontal do reservat?rio foi o que apresentou maior influ?ncia significativa ao processo seguido da heterogeneidade. Na segunda etapa foram selecionados tr?s modelos e estudado alguns par?metros operacionais, tais como: vaz?o de inje??o, dist?ncia entre po?os, tempo de produ??o e intervalos de completa??o. Dentre os par?metros operacionais estudados as baixas vaz?es e as dist?ncias entre po?os intermedi?rias foram as que apresentaram as melhores recupera??es

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-08-27T00:31:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 AntonioItaloAlvesDeOliveira_DISSERT.pdf: 4463689 bytes, checksum: 551e6cfc6b5b3ee103a6159082da29de (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-09-02T20:35:09Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 AntonioItaloAlvesDeOliveira_DISSERT.pdf: 4463689 bytes, checksum: 551e6cfc6b5b3ee103a6159082da29de (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-02T20:35:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AntonioItaloAlvesDeOliveira_DISSERT.pdf: 4463689 bytes, checksum: 551e6cfc6b5b3ee103a6159082da29de (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-19 / A descoberta do pr?-sal em 2006 trouxe novas expectativas para o futuro do setor petrol?fero no Brasil. Por?m, muitos desafios est?o relacionados ? atividade de explora??o e produ??o daquela regi?o, como por exemplo a perfura??o de uma extensa camada de sal, quest?es de log?stica e a alta concentra??o de CO2 (entre 8% e 12%). Esse g?s associado ao g?s natural n?o pode apenas ser lan?ado para atmosfera por quest?es ambientais e, portanto, a reinje??o desse g?s pode ser uma alternativa vi?vel. O CO2 causa inchamento do ?leo, reduzindo sua viscosidade e, portanto, facilita o fluxo de ?leo para o po?o produtor. Foi modelado um reservat?rio com caracter?sticas do pr?-sal no simulador comercial da CMG (Computer Modelling Group). Foram analisados par?metros como vaz?o de inje??o, dist?ncia vertical entre os po?os produtor e injetor, comprimento dos po?os e dist?ncia do po?o produtor ? base do reservat?rio e como esses par?metros influenciam no processo. O tempo total de projeto foi de 35 anos e as an?lise ocorreram para o primeiro ano de projeto, 2 anos 5, 15. 20 e 35 anos. O melhor caso conferiu um fator de recupera??o de 60% e em todos os anos, a vaz?o de inje??o foi o par?metro que mais influenciou no projeto. Em seguida procedeu-se uma an?lise econ?mica para dois cen?rios: comprando CO2 e transportando atrav?s de um carboduto e reinjetando o mesmo no po?o a partir da separa??o do g?s da corrente de g?s natural. A partir da viabilidade econ?mica dos dois projetos, foi analisado os impactos no VPL de oscicla??es dos componentes do fluxo de caixa . / The Discovery of Pr?-Sal (huge oil field located in a pre-salt layer undersea) in 2006 increased the persperctive of petroleum production to Brazil. Characterized as an light oil (28? - 30? API) comparing to the national average, many challenges were overcome to make the exploration economically viable. One of the problems found to produce oil from that region was the high percentage of carbon dioxide (between 8% and 12%), reaching 75% molar in some regions like J?piter field. The alternative found was to reinject the carbon dioxide from the separation of the natural g?s made on own production platform (an FPSO). The reinjection study was realized from the modeling of an light oil, with 8% of carbon dioxide, and an homogeneous oil reservoir, semi-synthetic, with similar characteristics to that region. It was implemented a Project with a time of 35 years and studied the following paramethers: Carbon dioxide flow rate, vertical distance between horizontal rigs used, distance from the rig to the base of the reservoir and the length of the producer rig to the injector rig. After choosing the best scenario, it was realized an analysis of the sensibility related to the injection flow rate reaching a fraction of recovered oil of 64%. In sequence, was realized an economic analysis from two cases: for the first one was admitted the purchase of carbon dioxide from an anthropogenic source and its transport to the platform made by a carboduct. The second case was considered the reinjection of produced gas by the rig from the process of membrane permeation with posterior reinjection. The first one obtained a maximum NPV (Net Present Value) of US$129.885.806,68 and the second one a maximum NPV of US$325.329.657,00. At last, was realized an uncertainty analysis towards the components values of the cash flow for both cases, verifying wich components is more sensitive to the NPV.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-03-22T19:35:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 AldayrDantasDeAraujoJunior_TESE.pdf: 6801282 bytes, checksum: 6465e3e1ed3f877f913f31049263ffc2 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-03-28T19:14:32Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 AldayrDantasDeAraujoJunior_TESE.pdf: 6801282 bytes, checksum: 6465e3e1ed3f877f913f31049263ffc2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-28T19:14:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AldayrDantasDeAraujoJunior_TESE.pdf: 6801282 bytes, checksum: 6465e3e1ed3f877f913f31049263ffc2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-29 / O ?xito atingido pelos m?todos t?rmicos de recupera??o, em ?leos pesados, motivou o surgimento de estudos relacionados com a utiliza??o de ondas eletromagn?ticas como fontes geradoras de calor em reservat?rios de petr?leo. Desta maneira, essa gera??o ? obtida atrav?s de tr?s tipos de processos distintos de acordo com o intervalo de frequ?ncias utilizado. S?o eles: o aquecimento eletromagn?tico indutivo, o resistivo e o diel?trico, tamb?m conhecido como por radia??o. O presente estudo foi baseado em simula??es computacionais em reservat?rios de petr?leo com caracter?sticas similares aos encontrados nas bacias sedimentares do Nordeste brasileiro. Todos os casos estudados foram simulados usando o programa STARS, da CMG (Computer Group, Modelagem vers?o 2012.10). Algumas simula??es levaram em considera??o a inser??o de part?culas eletricamente sens?veis em determinados setores do modelo de reservat?rio estudado atrav?s de fraturas. A proposta deste trabalho ? a utiliza??o do aquecimento eletromagn?tico por indu??o como m?todo de recupera??o de ?leos pesados, para verificar a influ?ncia dessas part?culas acima citadas no modelo de reservat?rio utilizado. Foram feitas an?lises comparativas envolvendo o aquecimento eletromagn?tico indutivo, a opera??o do fraturamento hidr?ulico e a inje??o de ?gua em diferentes situa??es do modelo de reservat?rio estudado. Foi constatado que fraturando o po?o injetor com o intuito de que o aquecimento eletromagn?tico ocorra no mesmo po?o em que h? a inje??o de ?gua, houve um acr?scimo consider?vel do fator de recupera??o e produ??o acumulada de ?leo em rela??o aos modelos em que o fraturamento hidr?ulico ocorria no po?o produtor e a inje??o de ?gua no po?o injetor. Este fato se deve ? gera??o de vapor in situ no reservat?rio. / The success achieved by thermal methods of recovery, in heavy oils, prompted the emergence of studies on the use of electromagnetic waves as heat generating sources in oil reservoirs. Thus, this generation is achieved by three types of different processes according to the frequency range used. They are: the electromagnetic induction heating, the resistive and the dielectric, also known as radiation. This study was based on computer simulations in oil reservoirs with characteristics similar to those found in the sedimentary basins of the Brazilian Northeast. All cases studied were simulated using the software STARS, CMG (Computer Group, version 2012.10 Modeling). Some simulations took into account the inclusion of electrically sensitive particles in certain sectors of the reservoir model studied by fracturing. The purpose of this work is the use of the electromagnetic induction heating as a recovery method of heavy oil, to check the influence of these aforementioned particles on the reservoir model used. Comparative analyses were made involving electromagnetic induction heating, the operation of hydraulic fracturing and the injection of water to the different situations of the reservoir model studied. It was found that fracturing the injection well in order that the electromagnetic heating occurs in the same well where there is water injection, there was a considerable increase in the recovery factor and in the cumulative oil production in relation to the models in which hydraulic fracturing occurred in the production well and water injection in the injection well. This is due to the generation of steam in situ in the reservoir.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:01:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GertrudesOQ.pdf: 1545154 bytes, checksum: 8733f5db29d9ddd6780de7e34160f375 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-12-16 / Thermal methods made heavy oil production possible in fields where primary recovery failed. Throughout the years steam injection became one of the most important alternatives to increase heavy oil recovery. There are many types of steam injection, and one of them is the cyclic steam injection, which has been used with success in several countries, including Brazil. The process involves three phases: firstly, steam is injected, inside of the producing well; secondly, the well is closed (soak period); and finally, the well is put back into production. These steps constitute one cycle. The cycle is repeated several times until economical production limit is reached. Usually, independent of reservoir type, as the number of cycles increases the cyclic injection turns less efficient. This work aims to analyze rock and reservoir property influence in the cyclic steam injection. The objective was to study the ideal number of cycles and, consequently, process optimization. Simulations were realized using the STARS simulator from the CMG group based in a proposed reservoir model. It was observed that the reservoir thickness was the most important parameter in the process performance, whilst soaking time influence was not significant / Os m?todos t?rmicos viabilizaram a produ??o de ?leo pesado em campos considerados n?o comerciais pelos m?todos convencionais de recupera??o. A inje??o de vapor, em particular, veio a se consagrar ao longo dos anos e ? hoje uma das principais alternativas economicamente vi?vel para o aumento da recupera??o dos ?leos pesados. Dentre as ramifica??es da inje??o de vapor existentes a inje??o c?clica tem sido utilizada com sucesso em escalas comerciais em v?rios pa?ses, incluindo o Brasil. O processo envolve tr?s fases: a primeira ? a inje??o de vapor na qual o vapor ? injetado, dentro do po?o produtor, por um per?odo espec?fico de tempo; em seguida, o po?o ? fechado por um curto per?odo de tempo ( soak period ); e finalmente, o po?o ? recolocado em produ??o durante meses a anos. Esse processo constitui um ciclo. O ciclo ? repetido um n?mero de vezes at? que o limite econ?mico na produ??o seja alcan?ado. Independente do tipo de reservat?rio, a inje??o c?clica geralmente se torna menos eficiente ? propor??o que o n?mero de ciclos aumenta. Este trabalho visa analisar a influ?ncia de algumas propriedades de rocha e reservat?rio na inje??o c?clica de vapor a fim de estudar o n?mero ideal de ciclos e, conseq?entemente, otimizar o processo. Foram realizadas simula??es, utilizando o simulador STARS do grupo CMG, a partir de um modelo de reservat?rio proposto. Observou-se que o efeito da espessura do reservat?rio foi o par?metro que mais influenciou no desempenho do processo, enquanto que para o tempo de soaking essa influ?ncia n?o foi significativa