An Experimental Investigation into the Impact of Sulfate Ions in Smart Water to Improve Oil Recovery in Carbonate Reservoirs

2015 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 649-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adedapo Awolayo ◽  
Hemanta Sarma ◽  
Ali AlSumaiti
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Carbonate Reservoirs ◽  
Sulfate Ions ◽  
Smart Water ◽  
The Impact

An experimental study for carbonate reservoirs on the impact of CO2-EOR on petrophysics and oil recovery

Fuel ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 1019-1038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Khather ◽  
Ali Saeedi ◽  
Matthew B. Myers ◽  
Michael Verrall
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Carbonate Reservoirs ◽  
Co2 Eor ◽  
The Impact

Optimization of Smart Water Chemical Composition for Carbonate Rocks Through Comparison of Active Cations Performance

2017 ◽  
Vol 139 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Malek Jalilian ◽  
Peyman Pourafshary ◽  
Behnam Sedaee Sola ◽  
Mosayyeb Kamari
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Carbonate Rocks ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Recovery Phase ◽  
Ion Concentration ◽  
Water Flooding ◽  
Core Flooding ◽  
Smart Water ◽  
The Impact

Designing smart water (SW) by optimizing the chemical composition of injected brine is a promising low-cost technique that has been developed for both sandstone and carbonate reservoirs for several decades. In this study, the impact of SW flooding during tertiary oil recovery phase was investigated by core flooding analysis of pure limestone carbonate rocks. Increasing the sulfate ion concentration by using CaSO4 and MgSO4 of NaCl concentration and finally reducing the total salinity were the main manipulations performed to optimize SW. The main objective of this research is to compare active cations including Ca2+ and Mg2+ in the presence of sulfate ions (SO42−) with regard to their efficiency in the enhancement of oil production during SW flooding of carbonate cores. The results revealed a 14.5% increase in the recovery factor by CaSO4 proving its greater effectiveness compared to MgSO4, which led to an 11.5% production enhancement. It was also realized that low-salinity water flooding (LSWF) did not lead to a significant positive effect as it contributed less than 2% in the tertiary stage.

scholarly journals Oil recovery for fractured-vuggy carbonate reservoirs by cyclic water huff and puff: performance analysis and prediction

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daigang Wang ◽  
Jingjing Sun
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
History Matching ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Carbonate Reservoir ◽  
Carbonate Reservoirs ◽  
Production Performance ◽  
Quantitative Prediction ◽  
Attractive Alternative ◽  
Marquardt Algorithm ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Cyclic water huff and puff (CWHP) has proven to be an attractive alternative to improve oil production performance after depletion-drive recovery in fractured-vuggy carbonate reservoirs. However, due to the impact of strong heterogeneity, multiple types of fractured-vuggy medium, poor connectivity, complex flow behaviors and oil-water relationship, CWHP is merely suitable for specific types of natural fractured-vuggy medium, usually causing a great difference in actual oil-yielding effect. It remains a great challenge for accurate evaluation of CWHP adaptability and quantitative prediction of production performance in fractured-vuggy carbonate reservoir, which severely restricts the application of CWHP. For this study, we firstly enable the newly developed fuzzy grey relational analysis to quantify the adaptability of CWHP. With production history of several targeted producers, the accuracy of the proposed method is validated. Based on the traditional percolation theory and waterflood mechanisms in various types of fractured-vuggy medium, a quantitative prediction model for cyclic water cut fwp and increased recovery factor ΔR is presented. The CWHP production performance is discussed by using the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm for history matching. With a better understanding of the fwp ~ ΔR curve characteristics in different types of fractured-vuggy medium, proper strategies or measures for potential-tapping remaining oil are provided. This methodology can also offer a good basis for engineers and geologists to develop other similar reservoirs with high efficiency.

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