1978
DOI: 10.2118/5892-pa
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Theory of Waterflooding in Fractured Reservoirs

Abstract: This paper presents a new theory of the incompressible flow of two fluids (water displacing oil) in a fractured porous material composed of two distinct media - matrix blocks of low transmissibility embedded in a highly transmissible medium. This general description includes heterogeneous porous media not necessarily of the fractured type. The theory accounts for an important fact not considered in framer analytical model found in the literature. The blocks downstream in a reservoir subject t… Show more

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“…Models to predict the imbibition rate with a changing water level in the fracture, like those presented by de Swaan (1978) or Beckner et al (1987), use the Aronofsky imbibition type model. These models also assumed a constant speed for the water level (water front) in the fracture, which is not necessarily true in reality.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Models to predict the imbibition rate with a changing water level in the fracture, like those presented by de Swaan (1978) or Beckner et al (1987), use the Aronofsky imbibition type model. These models also assumed a constant speed for the water level (water front) in the fracture, which is not necessarily true in reality.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The equation for flow with dual-porosity is presented in Part I, and is restated below (deSwaan 1978;Arbogast 1993a,b;Aziz 2002)…”
Section: Basic Equationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For this purpose, we note that Eq. 5 is of a similar form to the nonlinear Volterra integro-differential equation (Delves and Mohamed 1985;Baker 1977;Baker and Keech 1978) with respect to time if the spatial coordinateX f is taken as a "parameter." By analogy this approach can be applied to the problem under consideration here, using a stepby-step finite difference method combined with a quadrature scheme.…”
Section: Numerical Algorithmmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…[25] Several authors have attempted to introduce a similar transfer function in the context of conventional finite difference dual-porosity simulators [de Swaan, 1978;Kazemi et al, 1992;Civan, 1998;Terez and Firoozabadi, 1999]. However, from the work of de Swaan [1978] onward, they have invariably used a convolution integral for the instantaneous transfer function, equation (25).…”
Section: New Linear Transfer Functionmentioning
confidence: 99%