A Systemic Comparison of Physical Models for Simulating Surfactant–Polymer Flooding

Three different reservoir simulators that utilize both two-phase and three-phase microemulsion phase behavior models are used to model surfactant–polymer flooding determine compare their results. Different in each simulator describe the physical of injected chemicals into reservoir, which raises need benchmark The polymer surfactant were constructed verified on a 1D scale further 3D model. Finally, simulations conducted field-scale containing 680,400 grids, where results compared analyzed. suggest an excellent match between modeling floods. In case model, matched terms oil recovery total volumes produced injected, while having similar pressure profiles but with significant discrepancies chemicals. These indicate despite differences calculated due simulators, effect floods recovery, fluids, average can be comparably modeled all three simulators.