Drive Mechanism In Reservoir

NATURAL PRODUCING MECHANISM

The reservoir engineers is primarily concerned with two points:

 1. the amount of oil and gas which will ultimately recovered
 2. the rate at which this oil and gas will be recovered
DRIVING FORCE FOR PRODUCTION
 The expansion of the reservoir fluid, which is a function of their volume and
 compressibility, act as a source of drive energy to support primary
production
 PRIMARY RECOVERY MECHANISMS

 Five driving mechanisms

1. Rock and liquid expansion drive
2. Depletion drive
3. Gas cap drive
4. Water drive
5. Combination drive
 Rock and Liquid Expansion

 Undersaturated oil reservoir.

 The reservoir rock compressibility is the result of two factors:
 • Expansion of the individual rock grains
 • Formation compaction
 Reduction of the porosity.

 least efficient driving force

 recovery of only a small percentage of the
total oil in place.
The Depletion Drive Mechanism / Solution gas
drive / Dissolved gas drive / Internal gas drive
 No initial gas cap & No underlying active aquifer
 Source of energy is a result of gas liberation from the crude oil
 Expansion of the solution gas
Gas Cap Drive:
 Initial gas cap
 Little or no underlying water drive
 two sources:
 Expansion of the gas-cap gas
 • Expansion of the solution gas as it is liberated
The Water-Drive Mechanism
 Production from the oil column creates a pressure drop – water moves into
the oil column to replace the voidage
 The Combination-Drive Mechanism
 The driving mechanism most commonly encountered is one
in which both water and free gas are available in some
degree to displace the oil toward the producing wells