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When anomalous oils in productive reservoirs are displaced by water [1], residual undisplaced oil remains [2, 3]. For calculating the volume of the unrecovered oil, most studies have been of homogeneous reservoirs [4–8]. In the present paper, the residual volume is assessed using an inhomogeneous-stratified-model. The inhomogeneity of the strata is described by the random distributions of Weibull or Pearson (gamma-distribution), which are characteristic of oilfields possessing anomalous properties (see, for example, [9]). A parametric study is made of four known schemes of areal flooding: two-point (straight line), five-, seven-, and nine-point [10]. The obtained estimates of the volume of the residual oil can be used for rational selection of the parameters for exploiting anomalous oilfields.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 3, pp. 121–126, May–June, 1985.
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Kostomarov, M.P., Pankov, V.N. Comparative analysis of methods of areal flooding of stratified reservoirs of anomalous oil. Fluid Dyn 20, 440–444 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01049999
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