Reactivation of an Idle Lease to Increase Heavy Oil Recovery through Application of Conventional Steam Drive Technology in a Low Dip Slope & Reservoir in the Midway-Sunset Field, San Jaoquin Basin, California

Technical Report · Tue Nov 09 00:00:00 EST 1999

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/14429· OSTI ID:14429

Schamel, Steven

In January 1997 the project entered its second and main phase with the purpose of demonstrating whether steamflood can be a more effective mode of production of the heavy, viscous oils from the Monarch Sand reservoir than the more conventional cyclic steaming. The objective is not just to produce the pilot site within the Pru Fee property south of Taft (Figure 1), but to test which production parameters optimize total oil recovery at economically acceptable rates of production and production costs.

• Research Organization: National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Tulsa, OK (United States). National Petroleum Technology Office (NPTO)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: FC22-95BC14937
• OSTI ID: 14429
• Report Number(s): DOE/BC/14937-10; TRN: AH200136%%666
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: 9 Nov 1999
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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