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Estimation of oil reservoir thermal properties through temperature log data using inversion method

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  • Cheng, Wen-Long
  • Nian, Yong-Le
  • Li, Tong-Tong
  • Wang, Chang-Long

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Oil reservoir thermal properties not only play an important role in steam injection well heat transfer, but also are the basic parameters for evaluating the oil saturation in reservoir. In this study, for estimating reservoir thermal properties, a novel heat and mass transfer model of steam injection well was established at first, this model made full analysis on the wellbore-reservoir heat and mass transfer as well as the wellbore-formation, and the simulated results by the model were quite consistent with the log data. Then this study presented an effective inversion method for estimating the reservoir thermal properties through temperature log data. This method is based on the heat transfer model in steam injection wells, and can be used to predict the thermal properties as a stochastic approximation method. The inversion method was applied to estimate the reservoir thermal properties of two steam injection wells, it was found that the relative error of thermal conductivity for the two wells were 2.9% and 6.5%, and the relative error of volumetric specific heat capacity were 6.7% and 7.0%,which demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed method for estimating the reservoir thermal properties.

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  • Cheng, Wen-Long & Nian, Yong-Le & Li, Tong-Tong & Wang, Chang-Long, 2013. "Estimation of oil reservoir thermal properties through temperature log data using inversion method," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 1186-1195.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:55:y:2013:i:c:p:1186-1195
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2013.04.044
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