INJECTION RATE TUNING FOR OILFIELD OPERATIONS
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Optimized enhanced oil recovery can include tuning of injection rates during a recovery operation. The injection rate of injection fluid pumped into a formation can be controlled to alternate between monotonically increasing and monotonically decreasing during the enhanced recovery operation. Injection rates can be monotonically increased to a maximum level (e.g., as defined by physical constraints of the system) and then monotonically decreased to a lower level, allowing the injection rates to be monotonically increased again. While injection rates are monotonically increasing, viscous fingering between the injection fluid and hydrocarbons can be minimized while the hydrocarbons in the formation are displaced. While injection rates are monotonically decreasing, creation of new viscous fingers can be minimized while the injection rates are decreased to levels suitable for the monotonic increasing phase of a subsequent monotonic cycle.
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