By-Aashutosh Gautam(01)

Abhilasha Singh(02)
Aditi jayaraj(03)
Aditya B. Bhatnagar(04)
Ajay dalal(05)
Animesh Chaudhury(14)
Reservoir Drive Mechanism 1
 What is Reservoir drives?
 Types of reservoir drives
 Dissolved gas drive
 Gas cap drive

Reservoir Drive Mechanism 2

 What causes hydrocarbons in the reservoir to
move to the wellbore ?
 Which forces should be supported or pushed
back ?
 Where and how should secondary recovery
strategies be implemented?

Reservoir Drive Mechanism 3

 Pressure on the fluids in a reservoir rock causes
the fluids to flow through the pores into the
well.
 This energy that drives the oil and gas is called
the reservoir drive or reservoir energy.
 This energy comes from fluid expansion,rock
expansion and gravity.

Reservoir Drive Mechanism 4

1. Dissolved Gas drive
2. Gas Cap Drive
3. Water Drive
4. Gravity Drainage
5. Combination Drive

Reservoir Drive Mechanism 5

 Also known as solution-gas or depletion drive.
 Natural gas is dissolved in oil in reservoir
under high pressure
 When well is drilled,pressure decreses
 Gas bubble out of the oil forcing oil to move
through the rock into the well

Reservoir Drive Mechanism 6

 The recovery efficiency is 5 to 30%.
 Natural gas is dissolved at subsurface pressure
in the reservoir.
 When oil is produced from the reservoir,
reservoir pressure decreases and dissolved gas
bubbles out.
 The gas expands in the pore spaces and pushes
the reservoir oil through the pore to a
production well.

Reservoir Drive Mechanism 7

 During the producing life of a dissolved gas
pool a time comes when the reservoir pressure
is reduced to the saturation pressure and free
gas comes out
 The free gas continues to accumulate at the top
of the reservoir and become a secondary free
gas cap.
 As the pressure gradient decreases the free gas
comes out continuously and forms a gas
expansion pool.

Reservoir Drive Mechanism 8

 As secondary gas cap is formed it develops a
high gas oil ratio
 The reservoir energy may be renewed by
injecting gas under pressure into the reservoir
through neighboring intake wells
 The process of maintaining the reservoir
pressure near its original height through the
injection of free gas into the reservoir is called
pressure maintenance or repressuring

Reservoir Drive Mechanism 9

 The pressure is also maintained through the
injection of water under pressure is called
water flooding

 The production mechanics that govern oil

production from a natural Dissolved-gas drive
and from an artificial or repressurred gas drive
are similar

Reservoir Drive Mechanism 10

Reservoir Drive Mechanism 11
Reservoir Drive Mechanism 12
 Reservoir pressure
 Surface gas-oil ratio
 Water production
 Well behavior
 Expected oil recovery

Reservoir Drive Mechanism 13

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Reservoir Drive Mechanism 14