Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods aim to increase the amount of crude oil extracted from oil fields. There are three main EOR categories - thermal, which uses heat to extract oil; miscible, which uses gases like CO2 or nitrogen to extract oil; and chemical, which uses polymers, surfactants or alkalis. Common EOR techniques include gas injection, thermal injection like steam flooding, and chemical injection like polymer flooding. EOR selection depends on factors like reservoir depth, viscosity, and permeability. Thermal methods recover additional 20-30% of oil, while chemical/miscible methods recover additional 20-30% of oil remaining after primary/secondary recovery.
The efficiency of enhanced oil recovery method is a measure of the ability to provide greater hydrocarbon recovery than by natural depletion, at an economically attractive production rate.
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There are three primary techniques of EOR: gas injection, thermal injection, and chemical injection. Gas injection, which uses gases such as natural gas, nitrogen, or carbon dioxide (CO2), accounts for nearly 60 percent of EOR production in the United States. Thermal injection, which involves the introduction of heat, accounts for 40 percent of EOR production in the United States, with most of it occurring in California. Chemical injection, which can involve the use of long-chained molecules called polymers to increase the effectiveness of waterfloods, accounts for about one percent of EOR production in the United States. In 2013, a technique called Plasma-Pulse technology was introduced into the United States from Russia. This technique can result in another 50 percent of improvement in existing well production.
Enhanced Oil Recovery
It’s a process for recovering mostly every Barrels of Oil to get out all of remaining oil in it.
And this is done by EOR technologies
Enhanced Oil Recovery
Mainly the following process are done for Enhanced oil recovery
Water injection
Gas injection
Reducing residual oil saturation, SOR (alcohol, polymers, surfactants injection)
Thermal: steam injection (to heating of the reservoir to lower the viscosity)
The efficiency of enhanced oil recovery method is a measure of the ability to provide greater hydrocarbon recovery than by natural depletion, at an economically attractive production rate.
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There are three primary techniques of EOR: gas injection, thermal injection, and chemical injection. Gas injection, which uses gases such as natural gas, nitrogen, or carbon dioxide (CO2), accounts for nearly 60 percent of EOR production in the United States. Thermal injection, which involves the introduction of heat, accounts for 40 percent of EOR production in the United States, with most of it occurring in California. Chemical injection, which can involve the use of long-chained molecules called polymers to increase the effectiveness of waterfloods, accounts for about one percent of EOR production in the United States. In 2013, a technique called Plasma-Pulse technology was introduced into the United States from Russia. This technique can result in another 50 percent of improvement in existing well production.
Enhanced Oil Recovery
It’s a process for recovering mostly every Barrels of Oil to get out all of remaining oil in it.
And this is done by EOR technologies
Enhanced Oil Recovery
Mainly the following process are done for Enhanced oil recovery
Water injection
Gas injection
Reducing residual oil saturation, SOR (alcohol, polymers, surfactants injection)
Thermal: steam injection (to heating of the reservoir to lower the viscosity)
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I hope this presentation helps you to understand why we use acidizing process and calculations needed to perform the optimum acidizing .
Any questions contact me at karim.elfarash@std.suezuniv.edu.eg
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Eor methods
1. EOR Methods
Chandran Udumbasseri , Technical Consultant
cudumbasseri@yahoo.co.in; chandran.udumbasseri@gail.com
Enhanced oil recovery (abbreviated EOR) is the
implementation of various techniques for increasing
the amount of crude oil that can be extracted from
an oil field. Enhanced oil recovery is also called
improved oil recovery or tertiary recovery
2. Primary Recovery
• Uses natural pressure of the reservoir to push
crude oil to the surface
• Allows about 5% to 10% of the oil in the
reservoir to be extracted
3. Secondary Recovery
• Injects pressurised gas and water to drive the
residual crude oil and gas remaining after the
primary oil recovery phase to the surface wells
• Allows additional 25% to 30% of the oil in the
reservoir to be extracted
4. Tertiary Recovery
• Injects different materials to improve the flow
between oil, gas and rock, and to recover
crude oil remaining after the primary and
secondary oil recovery phases
• Allows additional 20% to 30% of the oil in the
reservoir to be extracted
6. EOR classification
• The processes in the EOR can be classified into 3
major categories. These methods have their own
and mainly related to the type of oil remaining to
be taken and reservoir characteristics (rock where
the oil is)
• Chemical: 1) Surfactant flooding, 2) Micellar
Polymer Flooding, 3) Polymer Flooding 4) Alkaline
or Caustic Flooding.
• Thermal: 1) Steam Flooding 2) Fire Flooding
• Miscible: 1) Carbon Dioxides Flooding, 2) Nitrogen
and Flue Gas Flooding, 3) Enriched Hydrocarbon
Gas Flooding
8. EOR-Thermal injection
• Thermal injection, which involves the introduction of heat,
accounts for 40 percent of EOR production
• In thermal injection, various methods are used to heat the
crude oil in the formation to reduce its viscosity and/or
vaporize part of the oil and thus decrease the mobility ratio
• The increased heat reduces the surface tension and increases
the permeability of the oil. The heated oil may also vaporize
and then condense forming improved oil.
• Methods include cyclic steam injection, steam flooding and
combustion.
• These methods improve the sweep efficiency and the
displacement efficiency. Steam injection has been used
commercially
9. EOR-water flooding -reservoir
disadvantageous
• In secondary recovery water flooding used to
drive oil to the production hole.
• But oil recovery in this flooding process is not
high enough due to following reasons :
– reservoir heterogeneity
– problems related to the well sitting and spacing
– unfavorable mobility ratio
14. EOR Application criteria
EOR Method Depth, ft Viscosity, cP Permeability, md
Steam 500-5,000 50-9000 >200
In Situ 1000-10,000 10-1000 >200
Alkaline 0-10,000 0-500 >20
Surfactant 0-9,000 0-50 >20
Polymer 0-9,000 0-150 >20
CO2 3000-10,000 and
above
0-15 Any range
HP gas 5000-10,000 &
above
0-10 Not a critical factor
15. Thermal Flooding
• Thermal flooding is much easy to begin. After
Primary and secondary production, the
reservoirs contain heavy, low-API crude oils is
usually a small fraction of the initial oil in
place. This is due to the very thick and viscous
nature of these oils making it difficult to
migrate to production wells
• The viscosity of crude oil decreases in
considerable magnitude with increase of
temperature in the region 100oF to 200oF
16. Thermal flooding-steam stimulation
• The temperature of a reservoir can be raised by
– Steam Cycling or Stimulation
– Steam Drive
– In situ Combustion.
• Thermal flooding was the first in EOR processes.
• Most of the oil that has been produced by EOR methods to
date has been as a result of thermal processes.
17. Steam stimulation
• Steam Stimulation (steam huff and puff, steam soak, or cyclic steam
injection)
• The process involves
– Injection of 5000–15,000 bbl of high quality steam.
– Shutting-in the well (from 1-5 days) to allow the steam to soak the
area around the injection well
– Placing the injection well into production.
• The length of the production period is dictated by the oil production rate
The cycle is repeated as many times as is economically feasible.
• Mechanisms of this process include:
• Reduction of flow resistance by reducing crude oil viscosity.
• Enhancement of the solution gas drive mechanism by decreasing the
gas solubility in an oil as temperature increases.
• Recoveries of additional oil have ranged from 0.21 to 5.0 bbl of oil per
barrel of steam injected.
21. Steam drive
• It is like a conventional water flood.- Steam is injected into
several injection wells while the oil is produced from other
wells. (diff. from steam stimulation)
• Some thermal energy is lost in heating the formation rock and
water
• The steam moves through the reservoir and comes in contact
with cold oil, rock, and water.
• As the steam comes in contact with the cold environment, it
condenses and a hot water bank is formed. This hot water
bank acts as a water flood and pushes additional oil to the
producing wells.
22. Steam drive
• Mechanisms of this process
– include thermal expansion of the crude oil,
– viscosity reduction of the crude oil,
– changes in surface forces as the reservoi rtemperature increases,
– and steam distillation of the lighter portions of the crudeoil.
• This application is limited due to loss of heat energy. In deep wells, steam
will be converted to liquid water
• Oil recoveries have ranged from 0.3 to 0.6 bbl of oil per barrel of steam
injected.
• More expensive than steam stimulation.
23. In situ combustion
• Forward dry combustion process
– Ignition of crude oil downhole.
– Injection of steam of oxygen enriched air
– Propagation of flame front through the reservoir heating oil.
– Heat loss
• Wet combustion process
– -Beginning as a dry process
– Once flame front is established, the oxygen stream is replaced by water.
– Water meets hot zone left by combustion front,
– turns into steam, and aids the displacement of oil.-
– Usage of otherwise wasted energy
• Not all crude oils are amenable to the combustion process.-Heavy
components must be enough in crude oil to serve as the fuel source for
the combustion, so low API gravity oil is required.
• As the heavy components in the oil are combusted, lighter components as
well as flue gases are formed. These gases are produced with the oil and
raise the effective API gravity of the produced oil.
24. EOR-Natural Gas injection
• Sometimes known as cycling, gas injection can entail re-
injection of produced natural gas. As the pressure drops in a
natural gas field, the condensate separates from the dry gas in
the reservoir. The condensate liquids block the pores within
the reservoir, making extraction practically impossible.
• Cycling is used to prevent the condensate from separating
from the natural gas in the reservoir. In this process, the
natural gas liquids (condensate) are stripped from the gas on
the surface after it has been produced from the reservoir, and
the dry gas is then re-injected into the reservoir through
injection wells. Again, this helps to maintain pressure in the
reservoir while also preventing the separation within the
hydrocarbon.
25. EOR-Gas injection
• Additionally, gas injection can serve as an
economical way to dispose of uneconomical
gas production on an oil reservoir.
• In the past, low levels of natural gas that were
produced from oil fields were flared or burned
off,
• This practice is discouraged in some countries
by environmental regulations
26. EOR-Gas injection-criteria
EOR method Reservoir characteristics Oil properties
Depth,
(ft)
permeability
, (md)
Gravity
(o API)
Viscosity
(cPs)
Compoition
(%)
Natural gas
injection
>4,000 Not criteria >23 <3 High % of
C2-C7
Nitrogen >6,000 Not criteria >35 <0.4 High % of
C1-C7
CO2 >2,500 - >22 <10 High % of
C5-C7
Miscible >1,800 - >12 <600 Not a
criteria
27. EOR-Gas injection advantageous
Nitrogen CO2 Flue gas
•source
•Produced from air by
cryogenic separation
•Available from 95-99%
•No natural source
•Captured from flue gas
of coal power plant
From combustion
•Properties
Inert and non corrosive-
no need of corrosion
inhibitor
Existing injection system
may be used
Available with <10ppm O2
No need for biocide
Corrosive-need special
corrosion inhibitors
/corrosion resistant infra
structure
Plugging due to
asphaltene precipitation
CO2 removal from
production is costly
Only very slightly
miscible with crude
Corrosive
SOX and NOX
presence
O2 to be removed
CO2 to be
removed which is
costly
28. EOR-Nitrogen gas -advantageous
Gas injected Nitrogen CO2 Natural
gas
Composite
gas
Flue gas
Molecular weight 28.01 44.01 16.46 23.43 30.93
Compression factor, z 1.0184 0.6888 0.9151 0.7029 0.9959
Density (lb/cu ft) 6.00 13.93 3.92 6.45 6.77
Volume, MMscfd 1200 1774 1336 1543 1227
Viscosity, cPs 0.0299 0.0243 0.0154 0.0173 0.0231
Compression
requirements, hp
500,500 665,500 528,000 578,600 510,400
Flow, million lbs/day 88.57 205.73 57.95 95.26 100.00
Price,$/mscf 0.23-0.56 1.00-1.25 2.1-2.2 1.23-1.50 0.55-0.82
29. EOR-Nitrogen flooding
• The following conditions should be met for applying nitrogen
flooding:
– The reservoir oil must be rich in ethane through hexane (C2-C6) or
lighter hydrocarbons. These crudes are characterized as "light oils"
having an API gravity higher than 35 degrees.
– The oil should have a high formation-volume factor – the capability of
absorbing added gas under reservoir conditions.
– The oil should be under-saturated or low in methane (C1).
– The reservoir should be at least 5,000 feet deep to withstand the high
injection pressure (in excess of 5,000 psi) necessary for the oil to attain
miscibility with nitrogen without fracturing the producing formation.
• Nitrogen can be separated from air by cryogenic methods. So
there is unlimited source for this gas.
30. EOR-Nitrogen flooding
• When nitrogen is injected into a reservoir, it forms a miscible front
by vaporizing some of the lighter components from the oil.
• Natural gas enriched nitrogen front moves away from the injection
wells, contacting new oil and vaporizing more components, thereby
enriching itself still further.
• The leading edge of this gas front becomes so enriched that it goes
into solution, or becomes miscible, with the reservoir oil. At this
time, the interface between the oil and gas disappears, and the
fluids blend as one.
• Continued injection of nitrogen pushes the miscible front through
the reservoir, moving a bank of displaced oil toward production
wells.
• Water slugs are injected alternately with the nitrogen to increase
the sweep efficiency and oil recovery
32. EOR-CO2 injection
• When a reservoir’s pressure is depleted through primary and
secondary production, carbon dioxide flooding can be an ideal
tertiary recovery method
• It’s particularly effective in reservoirs deeper than 2,000ft.,
where CO2 will be in a supercritical state
• On injecting CO2 into the reservoir, it dissolves in oil, the oil
swells and the viscosity of any hydrocarbon will be reduced
and hence, it will be easier to sweep to the production well
• If the well is suitable for CO2 flooding, then the pressure is
restored by water injection. Then CO2 is injected
• In these applications, between one-half and two-thirds of the
injected CO2 returns with the produced oil.
33. EOR-CO2 injection
• This is then usually re-injected into the reservoir to minimize
operating costs.
• Carbon dioxide as a solvent has the benefit of being more
economical than other similarly miscible fluids such as
propane and butane.
• Unless natural CO2 exists in the near area, it’s generally
difficult to collect sufficient amounts of CO2 for industry use.
• Availability of CO2 from the flue gas of coal power plants
makes CO2 injection method more economical
36. EOR-Chemical flooding
• The injection of various chemicals, usually as dilute solutions, have
been used to aid mobility and the reduction in surface tension.
• Injection of alkaline or caustic solutions into reservoirs with oil that
has organic acids naturally occurring in the oil will result in the
production of soap that may lower the interfacial tension enough to
increase production.
• Injection of a dilute solution of a water soluble polymer to increase
the viscosity of the injected water can increase the amount of oil
recovered in some formations.
• Dilute solutions of surfactants such as petroleum sulfonates or
biosurfactants such as rhamno lipids may be injected to lower the
interfacial tension or capillary pressure that obstructs oil droplets
from moving through a reservoir. Special formulations of oil, water
and surfactant, microemulsions can be particularly effective in this.
37. EOR-chemical injection
• Application of these methods is usually limited by the cost of
the chemicals and their adsorption and loss onto the rock of
the oil containing formation
• Due to technical and economic considerations, chemical
flooding, especially polymer flooding and ASP injection, is
currently considered as the preferred tertiary oil recovery
technique
• Main segments:
– Chemical selected should not affect the physical & chemical properties
of the oilfield.
– After chemical flooding, crude oil is extracted, and the chemical waste,
oil sludge and water in the residual liquid is then treated according to
environmental protection standards. The treated water is recycled and
reused for tertiary oil recovery and the oil sludge is disposed.
38. EOR-Chemical flooding
EOR Reservoir characteristics Oil properties
Depth
(ft)
Permeability
(md)
Gravity
(o API)
Viscosity,
cPs
Composition
Chemical
Polymers
>9000 >10 15-40 10-150 Not critical
Surfactants >9000 >10 15-40 10-150 Critical
Alkali >9000 >10 15-40 10-150 High acid
value
39. EOR-polymer flooding
• In polymer flooding, the polymers used reduces the "surface tension"
between the oil and the oil-containing rock within the oil reservoir,
"freeing" the trapped oil making it easier to flow to the production
well(s).
• Polyacrylamide powder or "PAM" is a non-toxic powder that is having
long-chain molecule is used in polymer flooding
• PAM makes the water "gel" greatly improving the production of oil. The
water injected becomes more "viscous" or thick, much like a gel and is
particularly beneficial in heavy oil recovery
• Benefits :
– Improved oil recovery
– Increased "sweep efficiency"
– Significantly less water required when compared with typical water-
flooding & steam injection
– Superior EOR technology with "heavy oil" formations/reservoirs with
low viscosity and where Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) is not
suitable
40. EOR-polymer flooding
• The added PAM increases the viscosity of the water to that of
a gel making the oil and water greatly improving the efficiency
of the water flood.
• Three potential ways for more efficient oil recovery
– 1) through the effects of polymers on fractional flow,
– (2) by decreasing the water/oil mobility ratio,
– (3) by diverting injected water from zones that have been swept.
• Mobility Ratio
41. EOR-polymer flooding
• To get a low mobility factor, the viscosity of water should be increased.
• In water injection the fingering effect reduce sweep efficiency. But in
polymer flooding this finger effect is not present. Fingering causes to flow
water along with oil through production line
42. EOR-Polymer flooding
• Permeability. Permeability is a key parameter for polymer flooding.
According to studies, polymer flooding can be applied to field where
permeability value is in the range of 20-2300mD (milli Darcy)
• Water salinity. The water salinity has a great effect on mobility, adsorption
and permeability reduction features of polymers.
– Adding salt to polymer solutions leads to the change in shape of molecules where its
shape transforms from inflated to spherical form.
– steep decrease in solution viscosity when 3% NaCl is added to polyacrylamides while in
case of Xanthan polysaccharide, added salt shows a big effect.
43. EOR-Polymer flooding Criteria
• Reservoir screening criteria for applying
polymer flooding is given below:
Properties Standards
Oil viscosity 10-3000cp
Temperature Up to 120oC
Permeability 10md to 10 Darcy
Reservoir type Sandstone
Oil gravity, API >15oAPI
Salinity < 250,000TDS
Oil saturation >50%
Water injectvity Good
44. EOR-polymer flooding-selection
• For applying polymer flooding, the selection
rules are:
– Find reservoirs with high mobility ratio and poor
volumetric sweep efficiency
– Define if the properties of reservoir meet the
screening criteria for polymer flooding.