Abstract
Abstract. We present a method for accelerated optimisation of CO2 injection into petroleum reservoirs. The optimisation assumes maximisation of the net present value by coupling reservoir models with the calculation of cash flows. The proposed method is based on the construction of a hierarchy of compositional reservoir models of increasing complexity. We show that in dimensionless volumes, the optimal water and gas slugs are very close for the 1-D and 2-D areal reservoir models of the water-alternating-gas (WAG) process. Therefore, the solution to the 1-D optimisation problem gives a good approximation of the solution to the 2-D problem. The proposed method is designed by using this observation. It employs a larger number of less computationally expensive 1-D compositional simulations to obtain a good initial guess for the injection volumes in much more expensive 2-D simulations. We suggest using the non-gradient optimisation algorithms for the coarse models on low levels of the hierarchy to guarantee convergence to the global maximum of the net present value. Then, we switch to the gradient methods only on the upper levels. We give examples of the algorithm application for optimisation of different WAG strategies and discuss its performance. We propose that 1-D compositional simulations can be efficient for optimising areal CO2 flooding patterns.
Funder
Russian Science Foundation
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