Flexibility Research of Hot-Water Flooding followed Steam Injection in Heavy Oil Reservoirs

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohu Dong ◽  
Huiqing Liu ◽  
Hongling Zhang ◽  
Zhanxi Pang
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Steam Injection ◽  
Hot Water ◽  
Oil Reservoirs ◽  
Water Flooding ◽  
Heavy Oil Reservoirs

On hot water flooding strategies for thin heavy oil reservoirs

Fuel ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 153 ◽  
pp. 559-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Zhao ◽  
Ian D. Gates
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Hot Water ◽  
Oil Reservoirs ◽  
Water Flooding ◽  
Heavy Oil Reservoirs

scholarly journals Study on Effect Evaluation Method of Weak Gel Flooding Control in Ordinary Heavy Oil Reservoirs

2020 ◽  
Vol 213 ◽  
pp. 02020
Author(s):  
Fachao Shan ◽  
Lun Zhao ◽  
Anzhu Xu ◽  
Bing Bo ◽  
Gang Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Characteristic Curve ◽  
Oil Reservoirs ◽  
Water Flooding ◽  
Effect Evaluation ◽  
Application Range ◽  
Heavy Oil Reservoirs ◽  
Single Well ◽  
Curve Method

Generally the dynamic methods are used to calculate the oil increase after flooding control in the oilfield, but the evaluation results of different methods are quite different, and the evaluation results are uncertain. Therefore, for flooding control well groups in heavy oil reservoirs, the water flooding characteristic curve method, decline method and net oil increase method are used to calculate the oil increase, and the influence of the method parameter values on the results are analyzed, and the parameter value limits and calculation errors of each method are determined. Based on this, the adaptability of each method is proposed. The results show that the effect evaluation of the whole region flooding control is suitable to use the water flooding characteristic curve method or the decline method, the effect evaluation of the single well group flooding control is more suitable to use the decline method, the net oil increase method is not recommended. The application range and parameter value limit of the effect evaluation method of flooding control are put forward, which can guide the actual production effect evaluation in the oilfield.

A New High-Temperature Gel for Profile Control in Heavy Oil Reservoirs

2015 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Changjiu Wang ◽  
Huiqing Liu ◽  
Qiang Zheng ◽  
Yongge Liu ◽  
Xiaohu Dong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Heat Stability ◽  
Steam Injection ◽  
Oil Reservoirs ◽  
Steam Flooding ◽  
Profile Control ◽  
Heavy Oil Reservoirs

Controlling the phenomenon of steam channeling is a major challenge in enhancing oil recovery of heavy oil reservoirs developed by steam injection, and the profile control with gel is an effective method to solve this problem. The use of conventional gel in water flooding reservoirs also has poor heat stability, so this paper proposes a new high-temperature gel (HTG) plugging agent on the basis of a laboratory experimental investigation. The HTG is prepared with nonionic filler and unsaturated amide monomer (AM) by graft polymerization and crosslinking, and the optimal gel formula, which has strong gelling strength and controllable gelation time, is obtained by the optimization of the concentration of main agent, AM/FT ratio, crosslinker, and initiator. To test the adaptability of the new HTG to heavy oil reservoirs and the performance of plugging steam channeling path and enhancing oil recovery, performance evaluation experiments and three-dimensional steam flooding and gel profile control experiments are conducted. The performance evaluation experiments indicate that the HTG has strong salt resistance and heat stability and still maintains strong gelling strength after 72 hrs at 200 °C. The singular sand-pack flooding experiments suggest that the HTG has good injectability, which can ensure the on-site construction safety. Moreover, the HTG has a high plugging pressure and washing out resistance to the high-temperature steam after gel forming and keeps the plugging ratio above 99.8% when the following steam injected volume reaches 10 PV after gel breakthrough. The three-dimensional steam flooding and gel profile control experiments results show that the HTG has good plugging performance in the steam channeling path and effectively controls its expanding. This forces the following steam, which is the steam injected after the gelling of HTG in the model, to flow through the steam unswept area, which improves the steam injection profile. During the gel profile control period, the cumulative oil production increases by 294.4 ml and the oil recovery is enhanced by 8.4%. Thus, this new HTG has a good effect in improving the steam injection profile and enhancing oil recovery and can be used to control the steam channeling in heavy oil reservoirs.

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