Estudo paramétrico da recuperação de petróleo pesado por aquecimento eletromagnético resistivo

Electrical resistive heating (ERH) is a thermal method used to improve oil recovery. It can increase oil rate and oil recovery due to temperature increase caused by electrical current passage through oil zone. ERH has some advantage compared with well-known thermal methods such as continuous steam flood, presenting low-water production. This method can be applied to reservoirs with different characteristics and initial reservoir conditions. Commercial software was used to test several cases using a semi-synthetic homogeneous reservoir with some characteristics as found in northeast Brazilian basins. It was realized a sensitivity analysis of some reservoir parameters, such as: oil zone, aquifer presence, gas cap presence and oil saturation on oil recovery and energy consumption. Then it was tested several cases studying the electrical variables considered more important in the process, such as: voltage, electrical configurations and electrodes positions. Energy optimization by electrodes voltage levels changes and electrical settings modify the intensity and the electrical current distribution in oil zone and, consequently, their influences in reservoir temperature reached at some regions. Results show which reservoir parameters were significant in order to improve oil recovery and energy requirement in for each reservoir. Most significant parameters on oil recovery and electrical energy delivered were oil thickness, presence of aquifer, presence of gas cap, voltage, electrical configuration and electrodes positions. Factors such as: connate water, water salinity and relative permeability to water at irreducible oil saturation had low influence on oil recovery but had some influence in energy requirements. It was possible to optimize energy consumption and oil recovery by electrical variables. Energy requirements can decrease by changing electrodes voltages during the process. This application can be extended to heavy oil reservoirs of high depth, such as offshore fields, where nowadays it is not applicable any conventional thermal process such as steam flooding

Análise paramétrica da simulação composicional do processo de Drenagem Gravitacional Assistida por Gás (GAGD)

In Brazil and around the world, oil companies are looking for, and expected development of new technologies and processes that can increase the oil recovery factor in mature reservoirs, in a simple and inexpensive way. So, the latest research has developed a new process called Gas Assisted Gravity Drainage (GAGD) which was classified as a gas injection IOR. The process, which is undergoing pilot testing in the field, is being extensively studied through physical scale models and core-floods laboratory, due to high oil recoveries in relation to other gas injection IOR. This process consists of injecting gas at the top of a reservoir through horizontal or vertical injector wells and displacing the oil, taking advantage of natural gravity segregation of fluids, to a horizontal producer well placed at the bottom of the reservoir. To study this process it was modeled a homogeneous reservoir and a model of multi-component fluid with characteristics similar to light oil Brazilian fields through a compositional simulator, to optimize the operational parameters. The model of the process was simulated in GEM (CMG, 2009.10). The operational parameters studied were the gas injection rate, the type of gas injection, the location of the injector and production well. We also studied the presence of water drive in the process. The results showed that the maximum vertical spacing between the two wells, caused the maximum recovery of oil in GAGD. Also, it was found that the largest flow injection, it obtained the largest recovery factors. This parameter controls the speed of the front of the gas injected and determined if the gravitational force dominates or not the process in the recovery of oil. Natural gas had better performance than CO2 and that the presence of aquifer in the reservoir was less influential in the process. In economic analysis found that by injecting natural gas is obtained more economically beneficial than CO2

O Aquífero Guarani no contexto das mudanças climáticas globais.

2008

LEGISLAÇÃO AMBIENTAL BRASILEIRA E OS IMPACTOS SOCIOAMBIENTAIS DOS GRANDES EMPREENDIMENTOS TURÍSTICOS EM FLORIANÓPOLIS

Este trabalho analisa a dinâmica geográfica e econômica instaurada no processo de apropriação de capital e domínio do espaço, efetivada por parte dos grandes empreendimentos turísticos de Florianópolis, utilizando o caso do Condomínio Residencial Costão Golf como objeto de estudo. Também é destacada a participação comunitária no caso Il Campanário Villaggio Resort e no caso Porto da Barra. São identificados os Princípios do Direito Ambiental, a Legislação Ambiental do Brasil, as fases de urbanização em Florianópolis, o surgimento dos grandes empreendimentos turísticos na capital catarinense, e suas relações com as comunidades locais onde atuam. Ao final, são analisadas as relações dos grandes empreendimentos turísticos de Florianópolis com o Poder Público, que afrontam os Princípios do Direito Ambiental e a Legislação Ambiental do Brasil, possibilitando impactos socioambientais como a contaminação do Aqüífero Ingleses com o manejo do gramado de um campo de golfe.

Importância, ocorrência, volume, distribuição e uso das águas subterrâneas no Brasil.

2008

Modelos screening e simulação de sistemas aplicados à avaliação de risco de contaminação da água por herbicidas em área de cultivo de cana-de-açúcar: estudo de caso na microbacia do córrego do Espraiado.

2008

Modelos screening e simulação de sistemas aplicados à avaliação de risco de contaminação da água por agrotóxicos em áreas de cultivo de soja, milho e arroz: estudo de caso nas nascentes do Rio Araguaia, região de Mineiros, GO, e na microbacia do arroio Jacaguá, região de Alegrete, RS.

2008

Vulnerabilidade natural do solo em áreas agrícolas: subsídio à avaliação do risco de contaminação do lençol freático por agroquímicos.

2008

Monitoramento de herbicidas em água subterrânea da microbacia do córrego do Espraiado, Ribeirão Preto, SP.

2008

Aspectos do comportamento dos herbicidas diuron e tebutiuron em solos das áreas de recarga do Aqüifero Guarani no estado de São Paulo.

2008

Adsorção e dessorção dos herbicidas diuron e tebutiuron em solos das áreas de afloramento do aqüifero Guarani na região de Ribeirão Preto.

2008

Realidade socioeconômica das propriedades rurais na região das nascentes do Rio Araguaia, GO/MT.

2008