The SteamSaver™ Injection System
Simplify well completions. Minimize operational costs. Weatherford’s patented SteamSaver injection
system controls steam rate and enhances steam quality by reducing the number of injection wells
and the size of the wellbore. This Weatherford innovation can also potentially reduce the equipment
requirement and the surface injection pressure requirement.
The SteamSaver injection system addresses several issues left unresolved with use of traditional steam
flood solutions.
Conventional Weatherford’s
Steam Flooding SteamSaver
• Uneven steam distribution and System
poor efficiency
• Improves efficiency and
• Large number of injector wells reduces cost with a single-
• Significant surface equipment tubing string design
• Large wellbore size • Minimizes required number of
• High injection-pressure wells and reduces costs
requirements • Minimizes equipment
requirements and reduces
costs
• Reduces casing size and
reduces costs
• Minimizes surface equipment
and reduces costs
Advantages
• Constant injection volume into multiple zones improves allocation of steam for greater system
efficiency and therefore improved recovery.
• System design reduces the quantity of injector wellbores, which minimizes completion equipment
costs.
• System design reduces hole-size requirements, which allows smaller casing size and minimizes
costs.
• In SAG D or cyclic steam injection applications, heat is distributed evenly along horizontal well
sections, potentially improving recovery.
• System’s potential to minimize required injection pressure at surface can reduce steam generation
costs.
Weatherford’s Total Downhole Steam Injection Solution
SteamSaver™ Components
Steam injection mandrels: Surface monitoring equipment:
Consist of mandrel, pressure recovery Records injection pressure, injection rate and steam
nozzle and steam splitter sleeve. quality.
SteamSaver Injection System
Performance
Standard Orifice
Steam Flow Rate
Nozzle
Weatherford’s
SteamSaver system
achieves a constant
rate with less
differential.
0.560 0.90
Pressure Ratio (P2/P1)
Isolation packers:
Steam Splitter
Thermal packers with integral expansion joint or
thermal cup packers with separate expansion joints;
located between injection zones.
Nozzle
Cup
Packer
Thermal Expansion Joint
Packer
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