Masters Theses

Abstract

"The intent of this thesis is to develop a program that will give reasonable recovery predictions for oil reservoirs under water influx. The main advantage is to avoid the massive storage and computational requirements of numerical simulators while achieving roughly comparable results. There are many methods already in existence that have not received their full benefit, mainly because they were developed prior to the recent advances of the computer age. This thesis therefore brings some already proven methods together with new techniques in a program which, with the aid of the computer, stimulates new life in these methods. The main methods are the material balance equation and the van Everdingen and Hurst method of calculating water influx. These are combined in a predictive program which uses iterative techniques to calculate the production of all three phases: gas, oil, and water. Also, an iterative technique is used for the water influx calculation. Other techniques used include weighting factors, error analyses, and the employment of the flow equation, saturation equations, and some graphic techniques to aid in calculating the production of the three phases and the water influx.

A comparison of the results of this program with those of two different numerical simulators show that roughly comparable results were obtained at a small fraction of the cost associated with numerical simulators"-- Abstract, p. ii

Advisor(s)

Numbere, Daopu Thompson, 1951-

Committee Member(s)

Koederitz, Leonard
Gillett, Billy E.

Department(s)

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering

Degree Name

M.S. in Petroleum Engineering

Publisher

University of Missouri--Rolla

Publication Date

Spring 1987

Pagination

vi, 53 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes_bibliographical_references_(pages 39-43)

Rights

© 1987 Briareus Mitchell Wilkinson, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Thesis - Open Access

File Type

text

Language

English

Thesis Number

T 5506

Print OCLC #

16769527

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