Mathematical modeling of gas-condensate mixture filtration in porous media taking into account non-equilibrium of phase transitions

Abstract

At the present time, a considerable part of the largest dry gas reservoirs in Russia are found in the stage of declining production, therefore active exploitation of gas-condensate fields will begin in the coming decades. There is a significant discrepancy between the project and the actual value of condensate recovery factor while producing reservoir of this type, which is caused by insufficient knowledge about non-equilibrium filtration mechanisms of gas-condensate mixtures in reservoir conditions. A system of differential equations to describe filtration process of two-phase multicomponent mixture for one-, two- and three-dimensional cases is presented in this work. The solution of the described system was made by finite-element method in the software package FlexPDE. Comparative distributions of velocities, pressures, saturations and phase compositions of three-component mixture along the reservoir model and in time in both cases of equilibrium and non-equilibrium filtration processes were obtained. Calculation results have shown that system deviation from the thermodynamic equilibrium increases gas phase flow rate and reduces liquid phase flow rate during filtration process of gas-condensate mixture.