Optimization of the slotted liners parameters during dual tubing steam injection process

Abstract

Abstract To study the distribution of steam parameters along the wellbore and the influence of slotted liners parameters on the effect of reservoir uniform preheating during the dual tubing steam injection process. Based on the structural characteristics of screen pipe completion and the simultaneous steam injection technology of long and short tubing, a coupled numerical model of fluid flow and heat transfer in reservoir and wellbore was established, and the model was solved by full implicit finite difference method and iterative technique. The results show that when the density, width and length of the slotted liners increase from 350 to 550/m, 0.20 to 0.40 mm and 35 to 75 mm, respectively, the difference of steam quality at the two ends of steam convergence position in the annuli increases by 0.41%, 2.26% and 1.71%, and the reservoir heating uniformity decreases by 1.49%, 2.68% and 2.08%, respectively. Optimizing the slotted liners parameters and reducing the steam quality difference at the convergence position of annuli can improve the uniform heating degree of reservoir along the horizontal wellbore.