Fluid flow in heterogeneous reservoirs
A research program emphasizing the impacts from reservoir heterogeneities, i.e. variations in reservoir properties, on oil recovery, is in progress utilizing interactions between experiments and numerical simulations.
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The project is an international collaboration between universities and the oil industry in the US, England, France and Norway. Reservoir heterogeneities severely affect the oil recovery by the impacts on the multiphase flow. Thus, this influences the reservoir management and choice of recovery methods. By simulating the oil and gas recovery in the laboratory, experimentally and by numerical simulations, continuous in-situ saturation information is obtained and assists in interpreting and improving the oil recovery. The results are fed into industrial reservoir simulators to upscale the results to be valid for field simulations. The objective for the research program is to be able to describe, understand, predict and model fluid flow in heterogeneous reservoirs, including variations in wettability.
PhD and MS studies are available within this research activity. Contact Person: Prof. Arne Graue
