Effect of Flowing Seawater on Supercritical CO2 - Superheated Water Mixture Flow in an Offshore Oil Well Considering the distribution of heat generated by the work of friction

Abstract

The modeling of thermal fluid (mostly reported for saturated steam) flow in wells involving steady-state heat transfer inside wellbores and transient heat transfer in sea water or formation is reviewed and inherited. It is a good addition of modeling of supercritical/superheated fluid to the existing body of literature. The flow of supercritical CO2 coupled with superheated water (SHW) in offshore wells is described by means of the differential mass, energy and momentum balance equations along the vertical wellbores. The effect of supercritical CO2 on pressure and temperature of the multi-component thermal fluid is expressed in terms of the real gas model (the S-R-K model). The differential equations are solved with finite difference method on space involving the constant injection parameters at wellhead. It is found out that: (a). while seawater has a significant influence on temperature drop in wellbores, its effect on pressure profiles is weak. (b). both temperature and superheat degree decrease with increasing of the content of supercritical CO2. Besides, study of the effect of injection rate and pressure is conducted.