Evaluation of effecting factors on oil recovery using the desirability function

Abstract

© 2018, The Author(s). The new method to evaluate the contribution of the related factors to the oil recovery is proposed by using the desirability model. The related factors are re-scaled and combined to be a single parameter in order to correlate with an indicator of oil recovery. The correlated result could be able to predict a trend of the factors and oil recovery as an empirical approach if a good correlation is achieved. Three published works of the coreflooding experiments are examined the effectivenesses and limitations of the proposed model. The analysed plots of desirability and the oil recovery imply an insight into the oil recovery mechanisms by indicating the dominant factors. The results meet a good agreement with the published works. Although the dominant factors are indicated and the correlation trend is able to be determined, the accuracy of the proposed method needs a high number of data sets to increase the statistical reliability.