Petroleum Science >2009, Issue 4: 400-404 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12182-009-0061-5
A laboratory study of hot WAG injection into fractured and conventional sand packs Open Access
文章信息
作者:M J Dorostkar,A Mohebbi,A Sarrai and A Soltani
作者单位:
Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran;Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran;Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran;Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
投稿时间:2009-01-27
引用方式:Dorostkar, M.J., Mohebbi, A., Sarrafi, A. et al. Pet. Sci. (2009) 6: 400. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12182-009-0061-5
文章摘要
Gas injection is the second largest enhanced oil recovery process, next only to the thermal method used in heavy oil fields. To increase the extent of the reservoir contacted by the injected gas, the gas is generally injected intermittently with water. This mode of injection is called water-alternating-gas (WAG). This study deals with a new immiscible water alternating gas (IWAG) EOR technique, “hot IWAG” which includes combination of thermal, solvent and sweep techniques. In the proposed method CO2 will be superheated above the reservoir temperature and instead of normal temperature water, hot water will be used. Hot CO2 and hot water will be alternatively injected into the sand packs. A laboratory test was conducted on the fractured and conventional sand packs. Slugs of water and CO2 with a low and constant rate were injected into the sand packs alternatively; slug size was 0.05 PV. Recovery from each sand pack was monitored and after that hot water and hot CO2 were injected alternatively under the same conditions and increased oil recovery from each sand pack and breakthrough were measured. Experimental results showed that the injection of hot WAG could signiicantly recover residual oil after WAG injection in conventional and fractured sand packs.
关键词
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Hot water-alternating-gas (WAG), enhanced oil recovery (EOR), fractured sand pack, conventional sand pack, gas injection