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The Optimization of the Length of Horizontal Wells for Bottom Water Reservoir Conditions

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Pages 2337-2347 | Received 25 Sep 2010, Accepted 16 Oct 2010, Published online: 04 Nov 2013
 

Abstract

The effect of length of horizontal production well on breakthrough oil recovery in reservoirs with bottom water conditions when water is flooded through a vertical well is studied with ECLIPSE100 (black oil simulator) as a function of several properties. It was found that as the horizontal well length increases, the breakthrough oil recovery rises and then falls indicating an optimum well length. The effect of reservoir properties, such as permeability, bottom water thickness, reservoir thickness, and viscosity of oil, and operating conditions, such as injection rate and injection well length, on breakthrough oil recovery were studied and explained on the basis of approach of interface between swept and un-swept zones to the production well.

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