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Motivation

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The stabilized water injection profile satisfies the assumptions of the 
Pressure Profile in Incompressible Stationary Quasi-Isothermal Incompressible Isoviscous Pipe Flow Pressure Profile @model.

Inputs & Outputs

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For the stabilized flow the wellbore pressure profile is constant and wellbore temperature profile is changing very slowly.


This allows solving the pressure-temperature problem iteratively:

  1. Iterations
  2. Iteration
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Outputs

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LaTeX Math Inline
bodyT_s

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LaTeX Math Inline
bodyp(l)

Pressure
distribution along

Intake pressure 

LaTeX Math Inlinebody
distribution along the pipe

LaTeX Math Inline
body

p_s

q(l)

 distribution along

 distribution along the pipe

LaTeX Math Inlinebodyq_s

Intake flowrate 

LaTeX Math Inline
bodyu(l)

Flow velocity

distribution along

distribution along the pipe


Inputs 

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LaTeX Math Inline
bodyz(l)

Pipeline trajectory TVDss

LaTeX Math Inline
body

\theta (l)

T_s

Intake temperature 
Pipeline trajectory inclination, LaTeX Math Inlinebody--uriencoded--\displaystyle \cos \theta (l) = \frac%7Bdz%7D%7Bdl%7D

LaTeX Math Inline
bodyT(l)

Along-pipe temperature profile 

LaTeX Math Inline
bodyp_s

Intake pressure 

LaTeX Math Inline
body\rho(T, p)

Fluid density 

LaTeX Math Inline
bodyq_s

Intake flowrate 

LaTeX Math Inline
body\mu(T, p)

Fluid viscosity 

LaTeX Math Inline
bodyz(l)

Pipeline trajectory TVDss

LaTeX Math Inline
bodyd

Flow pipe diameter

(tubing or casing depending on where flow occurs)

LaTeX Math Inline
body\theta (l)


Pipeline trajectory inclination,

LaTeX Math Inline
body--uriencoded--\displaystyle \cos \theta (l) = \frac%7Bdz%7D%7Bdl%7D

LaTeX Math Inline
body\epsilon

Inner pipe wall roughness


Assumptions

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Stationary
fluid
flowHomogenous
fluid Incompressible fluid  
flowIsothermal or Quasi-isothermal conditions
Constant cross-section pipe area
LaTeX Math Inline
bodyA
along hole

LaTeX Math Inline
body\rho(T, p)=\rho_s = \rm const

Isoviscous  

Isoviscous flow  

LaTeX Math Inline
body\mu(T, p) = \mu_s = \rm const

Constant cross-section pipe area

LaTeX Math Inline
bodyA
along hole


Equations

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Pressure profilePressure gradient profileFluid velocityFluid rate


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p(l) = p_s + \rho_s \, g \, z(l) - \frac{\rho_s \, q_s^2 }{2 A^2 d} \, f_s \, l



LaTeX Math Block
anchorgradP
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\frac{dp}{dl} = \rho_s \, g \cos \theta(l) - \frac{\rho_s \, q_s^2 }{2 A^2 d} \, f_s



LaTeX Math Block
anchor1
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q(l) =q_s = \rm const



LaTeX Math Block
anchor1
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u(l) = u_s = \frac{q_s}{A} = \rm const


where

LaTeX Math Inline
body--uriencoded--f_s = f(%7B\rm Re%7D, \, \epsilon)

Darcy friction factor (see Darcy friction factor in water producing/injecting wells @model) at intake point

LaTeX Math Inline
body--uriencoded--\displaystyle %7B\rm Re%7D_s = \frac%7B4 \rho_s q_s%7D%7B\pi d%7D \frac%7B1%7D%7B\mu_s%7D

Reynolds number at intake point

LaTeX Math Inline
body--uriencoded--A = 0.25 \, \pi \, d%5e2

flow pipe cross-section area  (tubing or casing depending on where flow occurs)


See Also

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Petroleum Industry / Upstream / Subsurface E&P Disciplines / Production Technology  / Well Flow Performance / Lift Curves (LC) / Water Injection Wellbore Profile @model

Pressure Profile in Incompressible Stationary Quasi-Isothermal Incompressible Isoviscous Pipe Flow Pressure Profile @model ] [ Darcy friction factor in water producing/injecting wells @model ]

Water Injection Wellbore Temperature Profile @model ]

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