Identification of Field-Wide Well Performance Enhancement Strategies in a Heavy Oil Field in Northern Kuwait Using Parametric Analysis Techniques

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Gregorio Garcia ◽  
Arun Kharghoria ◽  
Abdullah Abdul Karim Al-Rabah ◽  
Jacobo Montero
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-202
Author(s):  
Hung Viet Vu ◽  
Son Thai Tran

Production technology application in heavy oil production has been widely developed in industry over past decades in an effort to improve the ultimate recovery of this “difficult” hydrocarbon. Apart from thermal method, pumping technology makes remarkable advance by enlarging the draw-down created over the conventional gas-lift in several heavy oil projects. This paper presents the production technology design set out in the Field Development Plan (FDP) to enhance the wellbore lifting efficiency of a marginal heavy oil field offshore Vietnam. The finding of 200API viscous oil in Cuu Long Basin is weird to the geologist and its considerable large reserve challenges operator in thinking of a suitable development strategy to efficiently and economically extract this reserve. In so doing,a series of systematic technical studies has been purposely planned from the first encounter of heavy oil in wildcat well to the modelling study and asset design to accommodate the viscous fluid whilst optimizing the economic yield over the field life. Among them, the application of Electric Submersible Pump (ESP) was finally decided as the key driver to reinforce the well performance. As a result, the facility design at the surface such as surface electrical system coupledwith gas-lift back-up, sand control, chemical injection and so on, all integrated in one to boost production and prolong well life.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 62-67
Author(s):  
S.M. Durkin ◽  
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I.N. Menshikova ◽  
L.M. Rusin ◽  
A.A. Terentiev ◽  
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Author(s):  
L.F. Lamas ◽  
V.E. Botechia ◽  
D.J. Schiozer ◽  
M.L. Rocha ◽  
M. Delshad
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2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Omar Al-Manhali ◽  
Mohammed Al-rawahi ◽  
Suleiman Mohammed Al-hinai ◽  
Abdullah Alwazeer ◽  
Simon John Brissenden ◽  
...  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 644-650 ◽  
pp. 5142-5145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Luo

China is rich in resources of heavy oil.But some oilfield heavy oil reservoir in the development process will encounter interlining, affecting the development effect. In the process of SAGD to carry out the basic research of reservoir interlayer is helpful to identify the basic attributes of reservoir in the interlayer. The interlayer of SAGD development process is helpful to find the study focus and direction of development. Steam chamber breakthrough research achievements of interlining research abroad, summarizes the steam chamber breakthrough interlining, provide technical support for the oil field SAGD breakthrough interlining, it is of great significance for promoting SAGD efficient development.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Wang Xiaoyan ◽  
Zhao Jian ◽  
Yin Qingguo ◽  
Cao Bao ◽  
Zhang Yang ◽  
...  

Summary Achieving effective results using conventional thermal recovery technology is challenging in the deep undisturbed reservoir with extra-heavy oil in the LKQ oil field. Therefore, in this study, a novel approach based on in-situ combustion huff-and-puff technology is proposed. Through physical and numerical simulations of the reservoir, the oil recovery mechanism and key injection and production parameters of early-stage ultraheavy oil were investigated, and a series of key engineering supporting technologies were developed that were confirmed to be feasible via a pilot test. The results revealed that the ultraheavy oil in the LKQ oil field could achieve oxidation combustion under a high ignition temperature of greater than 450°C, where in-situ cracking and upgrading could occur, leading to greatly decreased viscosity of ultraheavy oil and significantly improved mobility. Moreover, it could achieve higher extra-heavy-oil production combined with the energy supplement of flue gas injection. The reasonable cycles of in-situ combustion huff and puff were five cycles, with the first cycle of gas injection of 300 000 m3 and the gas injection volume per cycle increasing in turn. It was predicted that the incremental oil production of a single well would be 500 t in one cycle. In addition, the supporting technologies were developed, such as a coiled-tubing electric ignition system, an integrated temperature and pressure monitoring system in coiled tubing, anticorrosion cementing and completion technology with high-temperature and high-pressure thermal recovery, and anticorrosion injection-production integrated lifting technology. The proposed method was applied to a pilot test in the YS3 well in the LKQ oil field. The high-pressure ignition was achieved in the 2200-m-deep well using the coiled-tubing electric igniter. The maximum temperature tolerance of the integrated monitoring system in coiled tubing reached up to 1200°C, which provided the functions of distributed temperature and multipoint pressure measurement in the entire wellbore. The combination of 13Cr-P110 casing and titanium alloy tubing effectively reduced the high-temperature and high-pressure oxygen corrosion of the wellbore. The successful field test of the comprehensive supporting engineering technologies presents a new approach for effective production in deep extra-heavy-oil reservoirs.


2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Pacifico Figueiredo ◽  
Celso Cesar M. Branco ◽  
Fabio Prais ◽  
Marcelo Curzio Salomao ◽  
Cristina Cledia Mezzomo
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2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A Adewumi ◽  
M Thaddeus Ityokumbul ◽  
Robert W Watson ◽  
Mario Farias ◽  
Glenn Heckman ◽  
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