Investigation of the Effect of Water Quality on Formation Damage using Porous Discs

Water injection is widely used in the petroleum industry for the increase of hydrocarbon recovery or disposal of wastewater. Water production and injection are the primary mechanisms in Geothermal Energy. Both include injecting water into a porous formation under matrix injection conditions. While maintaining water injection is vital in these...

Injectivity decline in ultra-filtered water flooding of high permeability sandstone reservoir

Water injection is a core element of geothermal, petroleum and waste water management industries where water is injected into the subsurface after treatment and filtration to comply with environmental regulations and water quality requirements. Some impurities still remain in the water even after the filtration process. It has been widely...

Semi-analytical modeling of water injection under fracturing conditions by capturing effects of formation damage mechanisms to predict fracture propagation

It is well known in the oil & gas industry that mature oil fields with a water drive produce increasing volumes of oily produced water which require treatment and efficient disposal. It is a major concern of all waterflood operations now in the industry, to adopt cost effective and environmentally sound water disposal systems. Re-injection...

Water Injectivity Prediction: Experiments and Modeling

Decline in injectivity due to suspended solids in injected water is a wide spread phenomenon in water injection projects. Reliable prediction of injectivity through experiments and modeling is very essential under such circumstances. A model for predicting the injectivity during internal filtration taking into account particle dispersion,...