Mathematical simulation of oil reservoir properties

A. Ramírez, A. Romero, F. Chavez, F. Carrillo, S. Lopez

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Abstract

The study and computational representation of porous media properties are very important for many industries where problems of fluid flow, percolation phenomena and liquid movement and stagnation are involved, for example, in building constructions, ore processing, chemical industries, mining, corrosion sciences, etc. Nevertheless, these kinds of processes present a noneasy behavior to be predicted and mathematical models must include statistical analysis, fractal and/or stochastic procedures to do it. This work shows the characterization of sandstone berea core samples which can be found as a porous media (PM) in natural oil reservoirs, rock formations, etc. and the development of a mathematical algorithm for simulating the anisotropic characteristics of a PM based on a stochastic distribution of some of their most important properties like porosity, permeability, pressure and saturation. Finally a stochastic process is used again to simulated the topography of an oil reservoir.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)778-788
Number of pages11
JournalChaos, Solitons and Fractals
Volume38
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2008

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