Andrzej Wojtanowicz

Dr. Andrzej Wojtanowicz


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Academic Career Length

25Years (2002-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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12 December 2012 in Journal of Energy Resources Technology
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Bakbergen BekbauBakbergen Bekbau
Bakbergen Bekbau
AKAidarkhan Kaltayev
Aidarkhan Kaltayev
AWAndrzej Wojtanowicz
Andrzej Wojtanowicz
MPMikhail Panfilov
Mikhail Panfilov

5 May 2020 in Journal of Energy Resources Technology
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YCYufei Chen
Yufei Chen
CJChangbao Jiang
Changbao Jiang
GYGuangzhi Yin
Guangzhi Yin
AWAndrzej Wojtanowicz
Andrzej Wojtanowicz
Dongming ZhangDongming Zhang
Dongming Zhang

1 September 2011 in Journal of Energy Resources Technology
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DZDesheng Zhou
Desheng Zhou
AWAndrzej Wojtanowicz
Andrzej Wojtanowicz

10 February 2023 in Energies
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WAWatheq Al-Mudhafar
Watheq Al-Mudhafar
DWDavid A Wood
David A Wood
DADahlia A. Al-Obaidi
Dahlia A. Al-Obaidi
AWAndrzej Wojtanowicz
Andrzej Wojtanowicz
Gas and downhole water sink-assisted gravity drainage (GDWS-AGD) is a new process of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in oil reservoirs underlain by large bottom aquifers. The process is capital intensive as it requires the construction of dual-completed wells for oil production and water drainage and additional multiple vertical gas-injection wells. The costs could be substantially reduced by eliminating the gas-injection wells and using triple-completed multi-functional wells. These wells are dubbed triple-completion-GDWS-AGD (TC-GDWS-AGD). In this work, we design and optimize the TC-GDWS-AGD oil recovery process in a fictitious oil reservoir (Punq-S3) that emulates a real North Sea oil field. The design aims at maximum oil recovery using a minimum number of triple-completed wells with a gas-injection completion in the vertical section of the well, and two horizontal well sections—the upper section for producing oil (from above the oil/water contact) and the lower section for draining water below the oil/water contact. The three well completions are isolated with hydraulic packers and water is drained from below the oil–water contact using the electric submersible pump. Well placement is optimized using the particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique by considering only 1 or 2 TC-GDWS-AGD wells to maximize a 12-year oil recovery with a minimum volume of produced water. The best well placement was found by considering hundreds of possible well locations throughout the reservoir for the single-well and two-well scenarios. The results show 58% oil recovery and 0.28 water cut for the single-well scenario and 63.5% oil recovery and 0.45 water cut for the two-well scenario. Interestingly, the base-case scenario using two wells without the TC-GDWS-AGD process would give the smallest oil recovery of 55.5% and the largest 70% water cut. The study indicates that the TC-GDWS-AGD process could be more productive by reducing the number of wells and increasing recovery with less water production.

20 November 2002 in Journal of Energy Resources Technology
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DZDesheng Zhou
Desheng Zhou
AWAndrzej Wojtanowicz
Andrzej Wojtanowicz

9 April 2018 in Journal of Energy Resources Technology
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SPSamir Prasun
Samir Prasun
AWAndrzej Wojtanowicz
Andrzej Wojtanowicz