A new mathematical model and experimental validation on foamy-oil flow in developing heavy oil reservoirs

Abstract To model foamy-oil flow in the development of heavy oil reservoirs, three depletion experiments were conducted with foamy oil treated as a pseudo-single-phase flow. In this pseudo single phase, dispersed bubbles are viewed as a part of the oil, and the redefined effective permeability varie...

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Main Authors: Pengcheng Liu, Zhenbao Mu, Wenhui Li, Yongbin Wu, Xiuluan Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08882-2