Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)

Khalid Abdulbasit_ RE_

Sudapet

Contents

Steam Flooding
Wettability change from oil
to water wet.
Reduces oil viscosity to
very low values.
Mobility ratio reduction
due to oil viscosity
reduction.
Process:
Injection of Steam with
high quality only to shallow
depth to reduce oil viscosity.

CSS
Cyclic Steam Stimulation
or called Cyclic Steam
Injection (CSI). Huff & Puff
Wettability change from oil
to water wet.
Reduces oil viscosity to
very low values.
It is the first part of Steam
Flooding.
Process:
Injection of Steam into the
producer it self (Injection
Phase)
Waiting for heat to be
distributed (Soaking Phase).
Producing the well back

ISC
Insitu- Combustion.
Wettability change from oil
to water wet.
Reduces oil viscosity to
very low values.
Some of oil in place will
lost.
Process:
Injection air containing high
amount of Oxygen, start the
ignition (firing) to initiate
the burn propagation.
Sometimes
followed
by
water injection.

SAGD

Steam Assisted Gravity

Drainage
Wettability change from oil
to water wet.
Reduces oil viscosity to
very low values.
Both heat and gravity are
used
to
increase
oil
Process:
production.
Drilling
of two horizontal
wells, the upper for heat
injection and the lower for
oil
production,
steam
chamber heats the oil and
by the effect of the gravity
oil will be pushed to the
producer.