Hybrid Process of Gas and Downhole Water Sink-Assisted Gravity Drainage (G&DWS-AGD) to Enhance Oil Recovery in Reservoirs with Water Coning

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Watheq J. Al-Mudhafar ◽  
Andrew K. Wojtanowicz ◽  
Dandina N. Rao
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Hybrid Process ◽  
Gravity Drainage ◽  
Water Coning ◽  
Downhole Water Sink ◽  
Enhance Oil Recovery

scholarly journals Numerical Simulation of Immiscible CO2-Assisted Gravity Drainage Process to Enhance Oil Recovery

2020 ◽  
pp. 2004-2016
Author(s):  
Dahlia Abdulhadi Al-Obaidi ◽  
Mohammed Saleh Al-Jawad
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Gas Injection ◽  
Injection Pressure ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Injection Rate ◽  
Gravity Drainage ◽  
Effective Parameters ◽  
Water Contact ◽  
Enhance Oil Recovery

The Gas Assisted Gravity Drainage (GAGD) process has become one of the most important processes to enhance oil recovery in both secondary and tertiary recovery stages and through immiscible and miscible modes.  Its advantages came from the ability to provide gravity-stable oil displacement for improving oil recovery, when compared with conventional gas injection methods such as Continuous Gas Injection (CGI) and Water – Alternative Gas (WAG). Vertical injectors for CO2   gas were placed at the top of the reservoir to form a gas cap which drives the oil towards the horizontal oil producing wells which are located above the oil-water-contact. The GAGD process was developed and tested in vertical wells to increase oil recovery in reservoirs with bottom water drive and strong water coning tendencies. Many physical and simulation models of GAGD performance were studied at ambient and reservoir conditions to investigate the effects of this method to enhance the recovery of oil and to examine the most effective parameters that control the GAGD process.      A prototype 2D simulation model based on the scaled physical model was built for CO2-assisted gravity drainage in different statement scenarios. The effects of gas injection rate, gas injection pressure and oil production rate on the performance of immiscible CO2-assisted gravity drainage-enhanced oil recovery were investigated. The results revealed that the ultimate oil recovery increases considerably with increasing oil production rates. Increasing gas injection rate improves the performance of the process while high pressure gas injection leads to less effective gravity mediated recovery.

Immiscible CO2-Assisted Gravity Drainage Process for Enhancing Oil Recovery in Bottom Water Drive reservoir

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-66
Author(s):  
Dahlia A. Al-Obaidi ◽  
Mohammed S. Al-Jawad
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Bottom Water ◽  
Physical Models ◽  
Recovery Factor ◽  
Gravity Drainage ◽  
Ambient Conditions ◽  
Water Contact ◽  
3D Simulation Model ◽  
Water Cut ◽  
Enhance Oil Recovery

The CO2-Assisted Gravity Drainage process (GAGD) has been introduced to become one of the mostinfluential process to enhance oil recovery (EOR) methods in both secondary and tertiary recovery through immiscibleand miscible mode. Its advantages came from the ability of this process to provide gravity-stable oil displacement forenhancing oil recovery. Vertical injectors for CO2 gas have been placed at the crest of the pay zone to form a gas capwhich drain the oil towards the horizontal producing oil wells located above the oil-water-contact. The advantage ofhorizontal well is to provide big drainage area and small pressure drawdown due to the long penetration. Manysimulation and physical models of CO2-AGD process have been implemented at reservoir and ambient conditions tostudy the effect of this method to improve oil recovery and to examine the most parameters that control the CO2-AGDprocess. The CO2-AGD process has been developed and tested to increase oil recovery in reservoirs with bottom waterdrive and strong water coning tendencies. In this study, a scaled prototype 3D simulation model with bottom waterdrive was used for CO2-assisted gravity drainage. The CO2-AGD process performance was studied. Also the effects ofbottom water drive on the performance of immiscible CO2 assisted gravity drainage (enhanced oil recovery and watercut) was investigated. Four different statements scenarios through CO2-AGD process were implemented. Resultsrevealed that: ultimate oil recovery factor increases considerably when implemented CO2-AGD process (from 13.5%to 84.3%). Recovery factor rises with increasing the activity of bottom water drive (from 77.5% to 84.3%). Also,GAGD process provides better reservoir pressure maintenance to keep water cut near 0% limit until gas flood frontreaches the production well if the aquifer is active, and stays near 0% limit at all prediction period for limited waterdrive.

scholarly journals Investigation on the effect of active-polymers with different functional groups for EOR

e-Polymers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
Dong Zhang ◽  
Jian Guang Wei ◽  
Run Nan Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Functional Groups ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Molecular Size ◽  
Type I ◽  
Cleaning Efficiency ◽  
Sweep Efficiency ◽  
Profile Control ◽  
Branched Chain ◽  
Swept Volume ◽  
Enhance Oil Recovery

AbstractActive-polymer attracted increasing interest as an enhancing oil recovery technology in oilfield development owing to the characteristics of polymer and surfactant. Different types of active functional groups, which grafted on the polymer branched chain, have different effects on the oil displacement performance of the active-polymers. In this article, the determination of molecular size and viscosity of active-polymers were characterized by Scatterer and Rheometer to detect the expanded swept volume ability. And the Leica microscope was used to evaluate the emulsifying property of the active-polymers, which confirmed the oil sweep efficiency. Results show that the Type I active-polymer have a greater molecular size and stronger viscosity, which is a profile control system for expanding the swept volume. The emulsification performance of Type III active-polymer is more stable, which is suitable for improving the oil cleaning efficiency. The results obtained in this paper reveal the application prospect of the active-polymer to enhance oil recovery in the development of oilfields.

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