Optimising the Production of Maturing Oil Fields Using Drag Reducing Agents in Water Injection Wells

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Nelson
Neft i gaz ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (121) ◽  
pp. 69-76
Author(s):  
M.ZH. DOSZHANOV ◽  
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B.N. ALYBAEV ◽  
M. K. KARAZHANOVA ◽  
D.A. AKHMETOV ◽  
...  

As the experience of field development shows, the unplanned growth of cracks in injection wells does not always have a positive effect on the development of oil reserves, but on the contrary, causes premature flooding of producing wells. At present, most of the fields are in the final stage of development, and increasing the coverage of the reservoir by flooding is an important task for the development of oil fields. The article considers and analyzes the influence of injection wells on the growth of hydraulic fracturing cracks and the relationship with oil production on the example of the Karazhanbas field (hereinafter referred to as the KBM).


Author(s):  
Yang Xiao ◽  
Fei Yin ◽  
Liying Zhang ◽  
Tongwen Jiang ◽  
Shenchao Luo

Abstract The dump flooding technology comes from offshore oil fields. It is necessary to increase the production of oil by water injection when fracture-cavity reservoirs in Xinjiang enter their middle and later stages. Lack of water sources in the desert area and the presence of heavy upper water layers encourage further research into the application of this technology. The dump flooding technology can eliminate the need for specialized injection wells and reduce the consumption of oil fields in the surface water sources, which may significantly aid in the development of the local economy and environment. In China, the research on dump flooding is still in its preliminary phase. Hence, there is no complete flow model for gravity flow and no optimization design software to optimize the development effect. This article sets up a flow model of a water layer-well-fracture unit by key local nodes. The key nodes, such as some perforating water layer, the bullet hole or the water valve, were simulated using the COMSOL software. The flow equations of each node were coupled together for the system-wide flow coupling model to verify the whole system by the numerical simulation, which needs Eclipse to run. The results of the research can be used to predict the water injection rates and formation pressures, and also provide a reference and a basis for the optimal design of water injection.


2013 ◽  
Vol 807-809 ◽  
pp. 2508-2513
Author(s):  
Qiang Wang ◽  
Wan Long Huang ◽  
Hai Min Xu

In pressure drop well test of the clasolite water injection well of Tahe oilfield, through nonlinear automatic fitting method in the multi-complex reservoir mode for water injection wells, we got layer permeability, skin factor, well bore storage coefficient and flood front radius, and then we calculated the residual oil saturation distribution. Through the examples of the four wells of Tahe oilfield analyzed by our software, we found that the method is one of the most powerful analysis tools.


2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine S.H. Dalmazzone ◽  
Amandine Le Follotec ◽  
Annie Audibert-Hayet ◽  
Allan Jeffery Twynam ◽  
Hugues M. Poitrenaud

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.A. Al-Ghamdi ◽  
A.A. Al-Hendi ◽  
O.J. Esmail

1991 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 339-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. W. Glennie ◽  
L. A. Armstrong

AbstractKittiwake was discovered by well 21/18-2 within a 7th Round block, part of Production Licence P351. Highly undersaturated oil is present in the Fulmar Formation and Skagerrak Formation reservoir sequences; 70 MMBBL of reserves is in Fulmar sandstones whereas oil in the Skagerrak is mostly immovable. The field will be developed from a single 16-slot platform with initially 5 producing and 5 water-injection wells. Solution gas is removed via the Fulmar Field pipeline to St Fergus and, as from September 1990, the oil is loaded onto tankers from a single-buoy mooring.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sultan Ibrahim Al Shemaili ◽  
Ahmed Mohamed Fawzy ◽  
Elamari Assreti ◽  
Mohamed El Maghraby ◽  
Mojtaba Moradi ◽  
...  

Abstract Several techniques have been applied to improve the water conformance of injection wells to eventually improve field oil recovery. Standalone Passive flow control devices or these devices combined with Sliding sleeves have been successful to improve the conformance in the wells, however, they may fail to provide the required performance in the reservoirs with complex/dynamic properties including propagating/dilating fractures or faults and may also require intervention. This is mainly because the continuously increasing contrast in the injectivity of a section with the feature compared to the rest of the well causes diverting a great portion of the injected fluid into the thief zone which ultimately creates short-circuit to the nearby producer wells. The new autonomous injection device overcomes this issue by selectively choking the injection of fluid into the growing fractures crossing the well. Once a predefined upper flowrate limit is reached at the zone, the valves autonomously close. Well A has been injecting water into reservoir B for several years. It has been recognised from the surveys that the well passes through two major faults and the other two features/fractures with huge uncertainty around their properties. The use of the autonomous valve was considered the best solution to control the water conformance in this well. The device initially operates as a normal passive outflow control valve, and if the injected flowrate flowing through the valve exceeds a designed limit, the device will automatically shut off. This provides the advantage of controlling the faults and fractures in case they were highly conductive as compared to other sections of the well and also once these zones are closed, the device enables the fluid to be distributed to other sections of the well, thereby improving the overall injection conformance. A comprehensive study was performed to change the existing dual completion to a single completion and determine the optimum completion design for delivering the targeted rate for the well while taking into account the huge uncertainty around the faults and features properties. The retrofitted completion including 9 joints with Autonomous valves and 5 joints with Bypass ICD valves were installed in the horizontal section of the well in six compartments separated with five swell packers. The completion was installed in mid-2020 and the well has been on the injection since September 2020. The well performance outcomes show that new completion has successfully delivered the target rate. Also, the data from a PLT survey performed in Feb 2021 shows that the valves have successfully minimised the outflow toward the faults and fractures. This allows achieving the optimised well performance autonomously as the impacts of thief zones on the injected fluid conformance is mitigated and a balanced-prescribed injection distribution is maintained. This paper presents the results from one of the early installations of the valves in a water injection well in the Middle East for ADNOC onshore. The paper discusses the applied completion design workflow as well as some field performance and PLT data.


2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 848-853
Author(s):  
Liliya Saychenko ◽  
Radharkrishnan Karantharath

To date, the development of the oil and gas industry can be characterized by a decline in the efficiency of the development of hydrocarbon deposits. High water cut-off is often caused by water breaking through a highly permeable reservoir interval, which often leads to the shutdown of wells due to the unprofitability of their further operation. In this paper, the application of straightening the profile log technology for injection wells of the Muravlenkovsky oil and gas field is justified. In the course of this work, the results of field studies are systematized. The reasons for water breakthrough were determined, and the main ways of filtration of the injected water were identified using tracer surveys. The use of CL-systems technology based on polyacrylamide and chromium acetate is recommended. The forecast of the estimated additional oil produced was made.


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