IOR Field Applications and Case Histories

COURSE DESCRIPTION & Outline

With the “soft” outlook for natural gas prices, oil is “King” and Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) is a solution applicable to both mature and recently developed oil reservoirs. This workshop focuses on IOR screening – getting the most from your core analysis and determining if your reservoir is an IOR target – and field application case studies. A variety of IOR approaches are discussed and illustrated with field application case studies.

• Introduction & Overview, Betty Felber

• Making The Most of Your Core Analysis, Betty Felber — The information is based on using routine core analysis results to determine reservoir quality index. Dykstra-Parsons and Lorenz coefficient techniques will be reviewed as will a method for determining the permeability cut-off. One capillary pressure technique will also be discussed.

• Is Your Reservoir A Good IOR Candidate? Betty Felber — The information given is based on SPE papers and internal screening criteria. In this presentation field properties which influence EOR application choices will be reviewed. A summary of these properties will be given for major EOR technologies.

• Nanoparticle Dispersions Enable Dramatically Improved Oil & Gas Well Intervention Methods Including Remediation, Injection, Fluid Recovery, & Production Enhancement, David Holcomb, Frac Tech Services, LLC —Nanoparticle Dispersion Solutions are a stable colloidal particle dispersion that accelerates hydrocarbon recovery from oil and gas reservoirs. These fluids have successfully been applied in oil and gas shales throughout the U. S. Field case histories for remediation, injection, frac fluid recovery and increasing production rates will be presented.

• Wavefront Powerwave, John Warren, VP of Operations, Wavefront Technology Solutions, LLC — Examples of successful applications of WaveFront technology will be given. In one waterflooded field, the Powerwave system has been employed in three injection wells for nearly 3 years. The purpose was to improve oil recovery. Excellent results have been achieved as both production and economic benefits materialized.

• Green River Formation Successful Waterflood, Betty Felber — The Monument Butte waterflood project, started in 1992 by Lomax Petroleum and completed in 1996 by Inland Resources, was a major success story of the Class I program. Waterflooding technology was not commonly used in the Uinta Basin because of low permeability, heterogeneity and high paraffin content (12%) of the lacustrine reservoirs. Primary production from the Green River formation in Monument Butte field averaged only 5% of OOIP. This project was expanded from a 2-section Monument Butte Unit to the entire 125,000 acre field utilizing technology developed under DOE's funding. The life of the Monument Butte reservoir was extended from a short primary period to 10 to 20 years on secondary production. The economic success can be inferred from the aggressive expansion by Inland Resources and other area operators using the waterflood technology developed.

• East Binger Field Nitrogen Injection: A Success Story—Sort Of, Betty Felber — A review of the East Binger Nitrogen Injection story will be given. The original project objectives were to demonstrate use of nitrogen as a widely available, cost-effective, and environmentally superior injectant for miscible floods and to demonstrate the effectiveness of horizontal wellbores in reducing gas breakthrough and cycling. Some of these objectives were met. Alternative methods for separating nitrogen from air will also be discussed.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Engineers, geologists, asset team professionals and managers

LEARN/KNOW AFTER ATTENDING

Attendees will know how to get the most out of their core data, screen their reservoir for applicable IOR processes, determine the most applicable IOR process and, through review of different field application case studies, know industry’s experience with different IOR processes.

PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR
Betty Felber—has over 30 years experience in Improved Oil Recovery Applications. She has worked in research, for operating companies, a service company and the U.S. Government. She has developed chemical systems for enhancing sweep in waterfloods, steamfloods, carbon dioxide and enriched gas floods. She supervised a team of geologists, geophysicists, engineers and chemists that conducted integrated field studies in Europe, Africa, the Middle and Far East and North and South America. At U. S. DOE she was responsible for directing oil upstream, downstream and environmental research, field demonstration projects, technology transfer and managed the National modeling system. She was General Chair for the Improved Oil Recovery Symposium in 1998. In 2008, she was selected as a SPE International Distinguished Member. She holds six United States and two Canadian sweep improvement patents.
 

LOCATION
Denver Athletic Club
1325 Glenarm Place
Denver, CO 80204
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Professional Development Hours (PDH)

6 hours