In situ upgrading of oil shale by Steamfrac in multistage transverse fractured horizontal well system uri icon

abstract

  • 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. We conduct numerical simulations of kerogen pyrolysis by the in situ upgrading process of Steamfrac, which entails the steam or hot-water injection into multistage transverse fractured horizontal well systems, by using a fully functional simulator developed to describe the in situ upgrading process. We first conduct simulation cases of a huff-n-puff method to analyze the sensitivity of temperature distribution of the reservoir to the positions of horizontal wells. Then, we conduct continuous hot-water injection and simultaneous fluid production cases, and analyze the productivity by applying two different irreducible saturations of aqueous phase in the rock matrix.

published proceedings

  • ENERGY SOURCES PART A-RECOVERY UTILIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS

author list (cited authors)

  • Lee, K. J., Moridis, G. J., & Ehlig-Economides, C. A.

citation count

  • 10

complete list of authors

  • Lee, Kyung Jae||Moridis, George J||Ehlig-Economides, Christine A

publication date

  • January 2016