In-person @ NOD: Snorre conformance control pilot – Modeling the impact on oil recovery and CO2 footprint using IORSim
03/01/2024 The Improve IOR/EOR Compentence network group welcomes you to the first seminar of 2024. Felix Feldmann from NORCE Reasearch will be talking about Snorre conformance control pilot – Modeling the impact on oil recovery and CO2 footprint using IORSim. Don't miss out on this great event.
In 2013, the Snorre field operators implemented a large-scale sodium silicate injection pilot to divert the reservoir water flow, improve volumetric sweep efficiency, and reduce CO2 emissions per barrel of produced oil. The presented study utilizes IORSim, a geochemical simulation tool, to numerically history match and predict the Snorre water diversion field pilot impact on field performance, reservoir life span, and CO2 footprint. While an industry-standard reservoir simulator was used to compute the velocity fields of the fluid phases (e.g., water, oil, and gas), IORSim calculated the sodium silicate transport, polymerization, and permeability reduction along the temperature front.
Updated: 03/01/2024