Multi-phase fluid model based on three pseudo-components
C = \{ W, O, G \}:
W | water pseudo-component, which may include minerals (assuming formation water and injection water composition is the same) |
O | dead oil pseudo-component |
G | dry gas pseudo-component |
existing in three possible phases
\alpha = \{ w, o, g \}:
w | water phase, consisting of water component, dead oil pseudo-component and dry gas pseudo-component |
o | oil phase, consisting of dead oil pseudo-component and dissolved dry gas pseudo-component (called Solution Gas) and water |
g | gas phase, consisting of dry gas pseudo-component and vaporized dead oil pseudo-component (called Volatile Oil) |
The volumetric phase-balance equations is:
(1) | s_w + s_o+s_g =1 |
where
s_w = \frac{V_w}{V} | share of total fluid volume V occupied by water phase V_w |
s_o = \frac{V_o}{V} | share of total fluid volume V occupied by oil phase V_o |
s_g = \frac{V_g}{V} | share of total fluid volume V occupied by gas phase V_g |
The accountable cross-phase exchanges are illustrated in the table below:
Injection water and production water are assumed to have the same dynamic fluid properties and not being discerned.
It's a typical case for saturated reservoir.
See Also
Petroleum Industry / Upstream / Subsurface E&P Disciplines / Fluid (PVT) Analysis / Fluid (PVT) modelling