Research Article

Experimental and Numerical Studies of Supercritical Water Flooding for Offshore Heavy Oil Recovery

Table 1

The key properties of the model.

ParametersValues

Initial temperature, °C50
Injection temperature, °C380
Fluid injection rate, ml/min10
Bottom hole pressure of production well, MPa23
Rock thermal conductivity, J/(m3 d °C)
Rock heat capacity, J/(m3 °C)
Water phase thermal conductivity, J/(m3 d °C)
Oil phase thermal conductivity, J/(m3 d °C)
Gas phase thermal conductivity, J/(m3 d °C)2000