DEVICE FOR MODELLING DEVELOPMENT OF HYDROCARBON FIELDS Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: mining. SUBSTANCE: device for modelling development of hydrocarbon fields. Includes three-dimensional model of formation, separator, pressure gage, profile formation model with inlet and outlet spiders and T-piece, area formation model with T-piece and spider, water and oil vessels, vacuum pump, main vacuum gage with T-piece, reference vacuum gage, water-oil spider, gas T-piece, gas spider, separator spider connected with separator, trap, gas meter, angle cocks, shutoff members, monostat made in form of working vessel and pressure vessel connected with working vessel and branch pipe. Pressure vessel in lowered part is communicated through angle cock with water and oil vessels. Pressure vessel is communicated with vacuum pump through regulator of flow rate. Three-dimensional model has inlet and outlet spiders. Pressure gage is communicated with profile model through T-piece. Mounted on pipelines are flow rate regulators. Operation with device depends on the problem solved. In case of modelling, e.g., of oil fields, water saturated layer is made in model lowered part. For this purpose, pressure vessel is communicated with water vessel by means of angle cocks, and vacuum pump is connected through angle cock and flow rate regulator, to higher part of pressure vessel. Pump is actuated and water is sucked from water vessel to pressure vessel. Then, pressure vessel is communicated with working vessel and the latter is filled with water. EFFECT: higher efficiency. 1 dwg