WO2003010415A1 - Injection verticale d'eau pour la recuperation de petrole brut - Google Patents

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WO2003010415A1
WO2003010415A1 PCT/IN2002/000158 IN0200158W WO03010415A1 WO 2003010415 A1 WO2003010415 A1 WO 2003010415A1 IN 0200158 W IN0200158 W IN 0200158W WO 03010415 A1 WO03010415 A1 WO 03010415A1
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
    • E21B43/16—Enhanced recovery methods for obtaining hydrocarbons
    • E21B43/20—Displacing by water
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
    • E21B43/16—Enhanced recovery methods for obtaining hydrocarbons
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
    • E21B43/16—Enhanced recovery methods for obtaining hydrocarbons
    • E21B43/24—Enhanced recovery methods for obtaining hydrocarbons using heat, e.g. steam injection
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
    • E21B43/30—Specific pattern of wells, e.g. optimising the spacing of wells
    • E21B43/305—Specific pattern of wells, e.g. optimising the spacing of wells comprising at least one inclined or horizontal well

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  • the present invention relates to an unparalleled method of recovery of underground crude oil, from very light to very heavy as well as tar sands, in a novel method yet unaccomplished in oil industry by introduction of a combination of some brand new features in the recovery technology.
  • the brand new features are a simple draining concept right from primary recovery stage that will minimize viscous fingering and minimize cross flow effects; a significantly improved heating method that will be applicable to recovery of heavy, very heavy and tar sand oil so far not possible in commonly known thermal recovery techniques; a miscibility enhancing technique with much improved feature by incorporating only nitrogen as miscibility fluid with added chemical for miscibility enhancement i.e.
  • An additive to lower minimum miscibility pressure of nitrogen will also be required that will call for search of such chemical in laboratory.
  • One such chemical is methane gas, as a boon in disguise, in the process methodology suggested (feature 'e' below).
  • Figures 1 and 2 show the concept elaborately (annexed in the Figure section below). Basically, the isobars are parallel and less curvaceous and gradually decreasing from bottom to top in a manner yielding very high pressure gradient (because of choice of production well pressure held) and very low viscous fingering.
  • Aquifer-supported Pools In case of aquifer adjacent to pool(s), pool boundary segment that is aquifer supported must be accurately detected from reservoir engineering tool(s) such as well tests etc. Depending on dip of aquifer-pool system, and the pressure gradient existing in the aquifer and pool side(s), appropriate injection wells can be placed to enable advancing the aquifer pool contact region towards pool interior and through to the other end. From this discussion, it appears that pools with aquifer support will be better exploited with advancing of the contact right from the beginning of the primary recovery period.

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L'invention concerne une technique d'injection verticale d'eau destinée à réduire au minimum l'effet de digitation et d'écoulement croisé. Le procédé de l'invention est mis en oeuvre en combinaison avec des méthodes d'exploitation de plusieurs forages latéraux.
PCT/IN2002/000158 2001-07-26 2002-07-26 Injection verticale d'eau pour la recuperation de petrole brut Ceased WO2003010415A1 (fr)

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CA002437920A CA2437920A1 (fr) 2002-07-23 2003-07-18 Dispositif d'injection verticale, avec optimisation integree du systeme, pour ameliorer la recuperation de petrole brut
NO20035150A NO20035150D0 (no) 2001-07-26 2003-11-19 Vertikal strömning for gjenvinning av råolje
GBGB0403342.9A GB0403342D0 (en) 2001-07-26 2004-02-16 Vertical flood for crude oil recovery

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US9297240B2 (en) 2011-05-31 2016-03-29 Conocophillips Company Cyclic radio frequency stimulation
US11142681B2 (en) 2017-06-29 2021-10-12 Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company Chasing solvent for enhanced recovery processes
US10487636B2 (en) 2017-07-27 2019-11-26 Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company Enhanced methods for recovering viscous hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation as a follow-up to thermal recovery processes
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