Limits on Sweep Efficiency for Solvent Injection Into Heavy Oil Reservoirs at Grain-scale

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Okhtay Taghizadeh ◽  
Kamy Sepehrnoori ◽  
Steven Lawrence Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Oil Reservoirs ◽  
Sweep Efficiency ◽  
Solvent Injection ◽  
Heavy Oil Reservoirs

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Vertical Producing Degree of Commingled Production via Waterflooding for Multilayer Offshore Heavy Oil Reservoirs

Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 2428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Shen ◽  
Linsong Cheng ◽  
Qiang Sun ◽  
Shijun Huang
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Flow Model ◽  
Dynamic Method ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Oil Reservoirs ◽  
Sweep Efficiency ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Heavy Oil Reservoirs ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Important Form

Recently, commingling production has been widely used for the development of offshore heavy oil reservoirs with multilayers. However, the differences between layers in terms of reservoir physical properties, oil properties and pressure have always resulted in interlayer interference, which makes it more difficult to evaluate the producing degree of commingled production. Based on the Buckley–Leverett theory, this paper presents two theoretical models, a one-dimensional linear flow model and a planar radial flow model, for water-flooded multilayer reservoirs. Through the models, this paper establishes a dynamic method to evaluate seepage resistance, sweep efficiency and recovery percent and then conducts an analysis with field data. The result indicates the following: (1) the dynamic difference in seepage resistance is an important form of interlayer interference during the commingled production of an offshore multilayer reservoir; (2) the difference between commingled production and separated production is small within a certain range of permeability ratio or viscosity ratio, but separated production should be adopted when the ratio exceeds a certain value.

An Investigation Into Propagation Behavior of the Steam Chamber During Expanding-Solvent SAGP (ES-SAGP)

SPE Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (02) ◽  
pp. 413-430
Author(s):  
Zhanxi Pang ◽  
Lei Wang ◽  
Zhengbin Wu ◽  
Xue Wang
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Physical Simulation ◽  
Heat Losses ◽  
Oil Reservoirs ◽  
Oil Viscosity ◽  
Sweep Efficiency ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Steam Chamber ◽  
Heavy Oil Reservoirs

Summary Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) and steam and gas push (SAGP) are used commercially to recover bitumen from oil sands, but for thin heavy-oil reservoirs, the recovery is lower because of larger heat losses through caprock and poorer oil mobility under reservoir conditions. A new enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR) method, expanding-solvent SAGP (ES-SAGP), is introduced to develop thin heavy-oil reservoirs. In ES-SAGP, noncondensate gas and vaporizable solvent are injected with steam into the steam chamber during SAGD. We used a 3D physical simulation scale to research the effectiveness of ES-SAGP and to analyze the propagation mechanisms of the steam chamber during ES-SAGP. Under the same experimental conditions, we conducted a contrast analysis between SAGP and ES-SAGP to study the expanding characteristics of the steam chamber, the sweep efficiency of the steam chamber, and the ultimate oil recovery. The experimental results show that the steam chamber gradually becomes an ellipse shape during SAGP. However, during ES-SAGP, noncondensate gas and a vaporizable solvent gather at the reservoir top to decrease heat losses, and oil viscosity near the condensate layer of the steam chamber is largely decreased by hot steam and by solvent, making the boundary of the steam chamber vertical and gradually a similar, rectangular shape. As in SAGD, during ES-SAGP, the expansion mechanism of the steam chamber can be divided into three stages: the ascent stage, the horizontal-expansion stage, and the descent stage. In the ascent stage, the time needed is shorter during ES-SAGP than during SAGP. However, the other two stages take more time during nitrogen, solvent, and steam injection to enlarge the cross-sectional area of the bottom of the steam chamber. For the conditions in our experiments, when the instantaneous oil/steam ratio is lower than 0.1, the corresponding oil recovery is 51.11%, which is 7.04% higher than in SAGP. Therefore, during ES-SAGP, not only is the volume of the steam chamber sharply enlarged, but the sweep efficiency and the ultimate oil recovery are also remarkably improved.

Application of Droplet Flow in Alkaline Flooding to Improve Sweep Efficiency in Heavy Oil Reservoirs

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haihua Pei ◽  
Guicai Zhang ◽  
Jijiang Ge ◽  
Lei Ding ◽  
Chao Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Oil Reservoirs ◽  
Sweep Efficiency ◽  
Droplet Flow ◽  
Heavy Oil Reservoirs

Use of Acid Gas (CO2/H2S) for the Cyclic Solvent Injection (CSI) Process for Heavy Oil Reservoirs

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlene M. Huerta ◽  
Jose Manuel Alvarez ◽  
Eddie Jossy ◽  
Ken Forshner
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Oil Reservoirs ◽  
Solvent Injection ◽  
Acid Gas ◽  
Heavy Oil Reservoirs

Improvement of Sweep Efficiency by Alkaline Flooding for Heavy Oil Reservoirs

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (11) ◽  
pp. 1548-1556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haihua Pei ◽  
Guicai Zhang ◽  
Jijiang Ge ◽  
Mingchao Ma ◽  
Lei Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Oil Reservoirs ◽  
Sweep Efficiency ◽  
Heavy Oil Reservoirs

Experimental investigation on improving steam sweep efficiency by novel particles in heavy oil reservoirs

2020 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 107429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huiqing Liu ◽  
Yanwei Wang ◽  
Aiping Zheng ◽  
Xinge Sun ◽  
Xiaohu Dong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Oil Reservoirs ◽  
Sweep Efficiency ◽  
Heavy Oil Reservoirs
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