U.S.-China Cooperative Research: Optimal Control Studies for Steamflooding

关于“蒸汽驱最佳控制研究”的建议， W博士位于博尔德的科罗拉多大学的弗雷德·拉米雷斯和 石油勘探研究院教授齐玉峰 中国石油勘探开发研究院（RIPED），由美国国家科学基金会和 被撕碎了。 研究人员建议使用最优控制理论来确定 经营战略，最大限度地提高经济吸引力的 蒸汽驱提高石油采收率的方法。 因为计算 最佳注射策略的选择是对可用性的严格测试 描述物理过程的机械模型， 用最优控制理论评价优化结果有助于 为新的强化油开发适当的预测数学模型 恢复技术。 对于蒸汽驱过程，调查人员 将考虑最佳使用泡沫驱动器。 他们还将 首次研究储层非均质性的影响 和裂缝的最佳注入策略。 就彼等所 据了解，主要研究人员是目前唯一的研究人员 将最优控制理论应用于石油开采问题。 通过 将美国的上级计算设施与 中国的上级数学模型，研究人员希望 提出了这一新的最优控制问题的解决方案。

This proposal on "Optimal Control Studies for Steamflooding" between Dr. W. Fred Ramirez of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Professor Qi Yufeng of the Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED) of China, is jointly sponsored by NSF and RIPED. The investigators propose to use optimal control theory to determine operating strategies that maximize the economic attractiveness of the steamflooding enhanced oil recovery process. Because the computation of optimal injection strategies is a stringent test of the usability of the mechanistic model which describes the physical process, the evaluation of optimization results with optimal control theory helps develop adequate predictive mathematical models for new enhanced oil recovery techniques. For the steamflooding process, the investigators will consider the optimal use of foam drives. They also will investigate for the first time the effect of reservoir heterogeneties and fractures on optimal injection strategies. To the best of their knowledge, the principal investigators are the only ones currently applying optimal control theory to oil recovery problems. By combining superior computational facilities in the US with the Chinese' superior mathematical model, the investigators hope to advance a solution of this new optimal control problem.