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Literature Review - Paper About Waterflood: No Name of Paper Authors Problems
Literature Review - Paper About Waterflood: No Name of Paper Authors Problems
Waterflooding can be Using Wateflooding with Experiences has shown that the
use as the potential these proposed Waterflooding process in heavy oil
technology for mechanisms at the heavy reservoirs may be improved by
recovering heavy oil oil reservoir : maximizing water injection and
reservoir. 1) Unconventional minimizing well spacing. Currently,
displacement the limit for heavy oil waterfloods
2) Improvement in the in terms of oil viscosity is believed
mobility ratio & to be in range of 1000 - 2000 mPa.s
3) Improvement in the and reported recovery factors of u
reservoir permeability to 30% even for heavy oils with a
viscosity of around 2000 mPa.s. The
results, observations and
experiences suggest that the
relative importance of some
recovery mechanism may be
different in heavy oil waterfloods
than in conventional waterfloods.
To reach the success Designed of water Waterflood response in pattern
waterflooding that injection programmes flood in multiple-sand resrvoir
conducted in involves determination of which has an average oil-water
multiple=sand reservoir water injection rates and mobility ratio of 8.0. Production
there were needed some location of injectors. rates increased from 2150 bd to an
practicalaspects of Water injection rates are initial peak rate of approximately
waterflooding which based on estimated peak 7000 bd. Gas - oil ratio declined
may be helpful in gross production rates rapidly from 600 cuft/bbl to an
initiating and operating with allowance for fluid average of 120 cuft/bbl. Total fluid
a successful waterlood llosses. Location of production and net oil production
project. injectors depends upon rates are sensitive to the water
the type of waterflood injection rate after fill-up.
and the design injection
rate.
Result
Controlled waterflooding through the use of
pattern balancing are increased oil recovery
and minimum water production. These
benefits are to yield increased profit per
barrel of secondary oil and decreased
depletion time. In Means Queen field,
secondary oil recovery equal to or greater
than twice primary. Results of this project
should return a maximum profit to the
working interest and royalty owners and
may further the art of waterflooding in the
petroleum industry.
1) Pressure maintennce on a separate- layer
basis by water injection in the early stage
of development yields a better long term
result. Reservoir pressure should be
increased from 5 to 7 kPa (0.7031 to 1.055
psi) above the initial value to keep the wells
flowing production water cut is gradually
increased. 2) Interlayer
inference in a multizone field can be
reduced by proper division and grouping of
productive zones, 3)
Separate layer adjustment are applied
according to the heterogenities and
oil/water displacement characteristics of
the reservoir. Thus, the production decline
of some layers can be compensated for by
production increases in other layers. 4)
Increases in the floded voolume and the
degree of flooding in a thick layer become
two of the most important factors in
enhancing the ultimate oil recovery.
The revitalization process in LB Block by
implementation of waterflooding is
supported by the results of the strategic IOR
program. The results obtained were
increase in the oil production and
improvement of the ultimate recovery
factor. Also, the main objective of
waterflood projrct, that is the increment
and stabilization of reservoir pressure is also
achieved productively. Waterflood project
conducted in the LB Block was successful,
both economically and technically.