Parametric study of hysteresis on a light oil reservoir
Light oil, water alterning gas injection, WAG, hysteresis, relative permeabilities.
The massive reservoir of light oil found on Brazilian fields also has a significative amount of CO2 dissolved. This CO2 when produced can be treated and released or reused on the process of water alternating gas injection WAG. In this context, this study use WAG-CO2 immiscible injection in conditions similar to what can be found on Sergi-C field, high pressure and low temperatures, to create a model for reservoir simulation where will be analyzed parameters of relative permeability hysteresis. For this was modeled a light oil, similar to pre-salt, a homogeneous reservoir with similar characteristics to Buracica reservoir found on Bahia concave, producing from an inverted 5-spot mash with 20 years of project. Two models of relative permeability hysteresis were studied, Killough (1976) model and Larsen and Skauge (1998) model. An analyzes of each parameter of those models showed that in a few cases there can be oil recovery factor up to 98% while at others there can be a negative impact up to 20% of the model without hysteresis.