Oil Recovery Enhancement in Middle East Heavy Oil Field using Malonic Acid based Deep Eutectic Solvent

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Al-Weheibi ◽  
R. Al-Hajri ◽  
Y. Al-Wahaibi ◽  
B. Jibril ◽  
A. Mohsenzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Malonic Acid ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Deep Eutectic Solvent ◽  
Oil Field

Experimental Design and Evaluation of Surfactant Polymer for a Heavy Oil Field in South of Sultanate of Oman

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Reham Al-Jabri ◽  
Rouhollah Farajzadeh ◽  
Abdullah Alkindi ◽  
Rifaat Al-Mjeni ◽  
David Rousseau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Heavy Oil ◽  
History Matching ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Reservoir Rock ◽  
Sultanate Of Oman ◽  
Industrial Chemicals ◽  
Oil Viscosity ◽  
Injection Strategy ◽  
Operational Conditions

Abstract Heavy oil reservoirs remain challenging for surfactant-based EOR. In particular, selecting fine-tuned and cost effective chemical formulations requires extensive laboratory work and a solid methodology. This paper reports a laboratory feasibility study, aiming at designing a surfactant-polymer pilot for a heavy oil field with an oil viscosity of ~500cP in the South of Sultanate of Oman, where polymer flooding has already been successfully trialed. A major driver was to design a simple chemical EOR method, to minimize the risk of operational issues (e.g. scaling) and ensure smooth logistics on the field. To that end, a dedicated alkaline-free and solvent-free surfactant polymer (SP) formulation has been designed, with its sole three components, polymer, surfactant and co-surfactant, being readily available industrial chemicals. This part of the work has been reported in a previous paper. A comprehensive set of oil recovery coreflood tests has then been carried out with two objectives: validate the intrinsic performances of the SP formulation in terms of residual oil mobilization and establish an optimal injection strategy to maximize oil recovery with minimal surfactant dosage. The 10 coreflood tests performed involved: Bentheimer sandstone, for baseline assessments on large plugs with minimized experimental uncertainties; homogeneous artificial sand and clays granular packs built to have representative mineralogical composition, for tuning of the injection parameters; native reservoir rock plugs, unstacked in order to avoid any bias, to validate the injection strategy in fully representative conditions. All surfactant injections were performed after long polymer injections, to mimic the operational conditions in the field. Under injection of "infinite" slugs of the SP formulation, all tests have led to tertiary recoveries of more than 88% of the remaining oil after waterflood with final oil saturations of less than 5%. When short slugs of SP formulation were injected, tertiary recoveries were larger than 70% ROIP with final oil saturations less than 10%. The final optimized test on a reservoir rock plug, which was selected after an extensive review of the petrophysical and mineralogical properties of the available reservoir cores, led to a tertiary recovery of 90% ROIP with a final oil saturation of 2%, after injection of 0.35 PV of SP formulation at 6 g/L total surfactant concentration, with surfactant losses of 0.14 mg-surfactant/g(rock). Further optimization will allow accelerating oil bank arrival and reducing the large PV of chase polymer needed to mobilize the liberated oil. An additional part of the work consisted in generating the parameters needed for reservoir scale simulation. This required dedicated laboratory assays and history matching simulations of which the results are presented and discussed. These outcomes validate, at lab scale, the feasibility of a surfactant polymer process for the heavy oil field investigated. As there has been no published field test of SP injection in heavy oil, this work may also open the way to a new range of field applications.

Indoor Study of Viscosity Reducer for Thickened Oil of Huancai

2012 ◽  
Vol 268-270 ◽  
pp. 547-550
Author(s):  
Qing Wang Liu ◽  
Xin Wang ◽  
Zhen Zhong Fan ◽  
Jiao Wang ◽  
Rui Gao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interfacial Tension ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Heavy Oil ◽  
High Viscosity ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Viscosity Reduction ◽  
Oil Viscosity ◽  
Low Viscosity ◽  
Viscosity Reducer ◽  
Oil Water

Liaohe oil field block 58 for Huancai, the efficiency of production of thickened oil is low, and the efficiency of displacement is worse, likely to cause other issues. Researching and developing an type of Heavy Oil Viscosity Reducer for exploiting. The high viscosity of W/O emulsion changed into low viscosity O/W emulsion to facilitate recovery, enhanced oil recovery. Through the experiment determine the viscosity properties of Heavy Oil Viscosity Reducer. The oil/water interfacial tension is lower than 0.0031mN•m-1, salt-resisting is good. The efficiency of viscosity reduction is higher than 90%, and also good at 180°C.

Implementation of Chemical EOR as Huff and Puff to Improve Oil Recovery for Heavy Oil Field by Chemical Treatment SEMAR Cast Study Bamboo Oil Field

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Farog ◽  
Haytham A.Mustafa ◽  
Enas Mukhtar ◽  
Husham Elblaoula ◽  
Badreldin A. Yassin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Chemical Treatment ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Chemical Eor

Research on Efficient Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery Technology Based on Low-Temperature Heavy Oil

2013 ◽  
Vol 734-737 ◽  
pp. 1434-1439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gang Wu ◽  
Fu Ping Ren ◽  
Jing You ◽  
Ji Liang Yu ◽  
Ya Tuo Pei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Enhanced Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Average Concentration ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Oil Reservoir ◽  
Oil Degradation ◽  
Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery ◽  
Well Pattern

Based on the low-temperature and heavy oil reservoir of conventional injection well pattern separated two strains of oil degradation bacteria LC and JH which had satisfactory compatibleness with BaoLige oill field. In order to study the feasibility of enhancing oil recovery rate of the two strains, the experiment of huff and puff with 15 wells were carried out. The average concentration of bacteria increase from 4.7×102cells/ml to 8.1×106cells/ml. The average reduction of surface tension and viscosity is 33.1% and 31.9%. The accumulative total was 1163.2t. The ratio of input to output was 1:2.12. Microbial enhanced oil recovery can improve the low-temperature and heavy oil production status, which provide a effective method for the similar oil field.

Combined Technology of Weak Gel Flooding assisting Thermal Huff and Puff Enhances Oil Recovery for Offshore Heavy Oil Field

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guangming Pan ◽  
Jianbo Chen ◽  
Caiqi Zhang ◽  
Dong Liu ◽  
Jintao Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Weak Gel

Heavy-Oil-Recovery Enhancement With Choline Chloride/Ethylene Glycol-Based Deep Eutectic Solvent

SPE Journal ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. 79-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.M.. M. Shuwa ◽  
B.Y.. Y. Jibril ◽  
Y.M.. M. Al-Wahaibi ◽  
R.S.. S. Al-Hajri
Keyword(s):  
Ethylene Glycol ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Choline Chloride ◽  
Deep Eutectic Solvent ◽  
Wettability Alteration ◽  
Formation Damage ◽  
Heavy Oil Recovery ◽  
Brine Solution

Summary Because of increasing energy demand, unconventional resources such as heavy oil are being explored and recovered. Enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR) methods such as surfactants and polymer flooding must be optimized and new chemicals must be designed to produce more oil. This paper introduces a new deep eutectic solvent (DES) that is based on choline chloride/ethylene glycol for EOR. As preliminary investigations revealed, different concentrations of DES solutions in brine (0 to 100 vol%) were characterized by measuring density, viscosity, conductivity, surface tension, and refractive index at different temperatures (25 to 55°C). Then, the effects of the DES/brine solutions on emulsification with oil phase, wettability alteration, oil/solvent interfacial tension (IFT), formation damage, and tertiary heavy-oil recovery were studied. Potential of the DES solution on enhancing heavy-oil recovery was explored by use of coreflood experiments. This was performed at reservoir condition (pressure = 1,200 psi, temperature = 45 to 80°C) with Berea sandstone core samples and fluids from the field of interest (formation brine and crude oil). An increase in IFT rather than a decrease was observed between the DES/brine solution and the oil. The spontaneous-water-imbibition tests suggested that a decrease in oil-wetness led to an increase in oil production. Approximately 52% of residual oil after waterflooding was recovered with the DES from the coreflooding. The results show an increase in oil recovery with reservoir temperature (6, 13, and 16% on the basis of initial oil in place at 45, 60 and 80°C, respectively). The interaction of the DES with the core materials did not lead to formation damage, as demonstrated by the permeability measurements of the DES/brine solution before and after injection. Viscous forces and wettability alteration were found to be the dominant mechanisms for the tertiary oil-recovery enhancement.

Improving Oil Recovery through Integrated Reservoir Management In A Mature Oil Field In The Middle East

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammed Akram Chouhdary ◽  
Hussain Rakeb Al-Rasheedi ◽  
Mohamad Rafiq Wani
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Reservoir Management ◽  
Oil Field

Challenges, Opportunities and Threats of Deep Bottoms-Up Water Injection in Heavy Oil Reservoir: Lessons Learnt from the G Field, South Oman

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaitanya Behera ◽  
Sandip Mahajan ◽  
Carlos Annia ◽  
Mahmood Harthi ◽  
Jane-Frances Obilaja ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
Field Performance ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Reservoir Pressure ◽  
Light Oil ◽  
Alternative Water ◽  
Variable Water

Abstract This paper presents the results of a comprehensive study carried out to improve the understanding of deep bottom-up water injection, which enabled optimizing the recovery of a heavy oil field in South Oman. Understanding the variable water injection response and the scale of impact on oil recovery due to reservoir heterogeneity, operating reservoir pressure and liquid offtake management are the main challenges of deep bottoms-up water injection in heavy oil fields. The offtake and throughput management philosophy for heavy oil waterflood is not same as classical light oil. Due to unclear understanding of water injection response, sometimes the operators are tempted to implement alternative water injection trials leading to increase in the risk of losing reserves and unwarranted CAPEX sink. There are several examples of waterflood in heavy oil fields; however, very few examples of deep bottom water injection cases are available globally. The field G is one of the large heavy oil fields in South Oman; the oil viscosity varies between 250cp to 1500cp. The field came on-stream in 1989, but bottoms-up water-injection started in 2015, mainly to supplement the aquifer influx after 40% decline of reservoir pressure. After three years of water injection, the field liquid production was substantially lower than predicted, which implied risk on the incremental reserves. Alternative water injection concepts were tested by implementing multiple water injection trials apprehending the effectiveness of the bottoms-up water injection concept. A comprehensive integrated study including update of geocellular model, full field dynamic simulation, produced water re-injection (PWRI) model and conventional field performance analysis was undertaken for optimizing the field recovery. The Root Cause Analysis (RCA) revealed many reasons for suboptimal field performance including water injection management, productivity impairment due to near wellbore damage, well completion issues, and more importantly the variable water injection response in the field. The dynamic simulation study indicated negligible oil bank development due to frontal displacement and no water cut reversal as initial response to the water injection. Nevertheless, the significance of operating reservoir pressure, liquid offtake and throughput management impact on oil recovery cann't be precluded. The work concludes that the well reservoir management (WRM) strategy for heavy oil field is not same as the classical light oil waterflood. Nevertheless, the reservoir heterogeneity, oil column thickness and saturation history are also important influencing factors for variable water injection response in heavy oil field.

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