Immiscible CO2 Flood
Injecting below minimum miscibility pressure
Can a CO2 flood be run at low pressure? If so, how will successful will it be?
One operator proposed modifications to an immiscible CO2 flood. In his application, he reported on the progress of the flood and claimed additional recovery by several means even without miscibility.
Understanding the intelligence contained in this application is important to anyone wanting to try a gas flood.
You can see his application documents in moments by clicking on the button below labelled 'Buy these application documents now.'
Get details of this cool tech Subscribers get them for freeExperimental status over
With the approval of this application, the earlier experimental status was removed. This allows you to review the application and then check out the performance in Accumap.
All applications are ground truthed to real UWIs. You won't find that in SPE papers.
?subject=Help me get up to speed on miscible flooding&body=Help me get up to speed on miscible flooding%0D%0A%0D%0AMy Name:__________ %0D%0AMy Phone Number:__________ %0D%0A%0D%0A(Or call Proven Sales at 403-803-2500.)">Contact Proven for support. We stay on top of flood strategies.
And you won't find SPE papers that deal with CO2 flooding below minimum miscibility pressure.
Below minimum miscibility pressure
In EOR courses, you'll be taught that CO2 mixes with oil only above a certain pressure. This minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) is almost always much higher than virgin pressure.
Some operators boost the pool pressure to the MMP. But increasing the pool pressure to 20-30% above original pressure is costly and presents some operational risks.
These days, many more operators are injecting at below MMP because it's easier. The application that's subject of this blog post was very scientific in its study of injection below MMP. And they believed incremental oil reserves were about 10%.
Oil swelling
The operator believed that incremental oil recovery was a result of oil interactions with the reservoir fluids causing oil swelling, decreased interfacial tension, and reduced oil viscosity.
Traditional CO2 floods count on miscibility reservoir fluids. The resultant mixture is lighter and thinner allowing better drainage.
Gas lift
This flood, like many other gas floods get some of their cost advantage from auto-lift and unique type of gas lift. In auto-lift, gas from gas cap is perforated in each wellbore and allowed to lift the liquid column in a tightly controlled manner.
This type of lift is very inexpensive to set up and maintain. A reduction of lifting costs further adds to the economic viability of gas floods.
?subject=I want a one day trial of AppIntel&body=Sign me up for a one day AppIntel trial so I can search quickly for all the miscible floods.%0D%0A%0D%0AMy Name:___%0D%0AMy Phone Number:____%0D%0A%0D%0AType of applications:___%0D%0A%0D%0APricing: https://www1.appintel.info/short-term-search/%0D%0A%0D%0A(Or call AppIntel Sales at 403-803-2500.)">Contact us now for a one day trial.
Tags: Gas Injection, Flood
Granger Low 15 Feb 2017
Supercharge 2026 with exploration AI skills that matter
Found a corner shot in thermal scheme
Don't blow the lid
Fracking into a neighboring well causes a blowout
Continuing Canadian thermal innovation doubled oil production
Experimental Propane Solvent co-injection in thermal
Shale in SAGD
How shale much is too much shale? Ask AppIntel AI.
Measuring the rate of oil and gas technology growth
Energy transition inside the oil industry
The rise of water recycle
Join or perish
AppIntel AI shows SAGD type logs
Check out the picks and cap rock
AppIntel AI hit alerts
Ignite your insight
Blowdown and NCG injection
SIRs often reveal more than submissions
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Share