Heating of Oil Well by Hot Water Circulation

2005/03/04 by Mladen Jurak, Jurak, Mladen, Zarko Prnic +2
Engineering · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #80A99 #80M20 #Drilling and Well Engineering #Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques #FOS: Physical sciences #Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #math-ph #math.MP #msc:80A99 #msc:80M20

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math-ph/0503006

9 pages, 2 figures, Conference on Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing, Brijuni, Croatia, June 23-27, 2003

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Abstract

When highly viscous oil is produced at low temperatures, large pressure drops will significantly decrease production rate. One of possible solutions to this problem is heating of oil well by hot water recycling. We construct and analyze a mathematical model of oil-well heating composed of three linear parabolic PDE coupled with one Volterra integral equation. Further on we construct numerical method for the model and present some simulation results.

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