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

Technical Report · Tue Jul 29 00:00:00 EDT 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1471· OSTI ID:1471

Schamel, Steven

This project reactivates ARCO's idle Pru Fee property in the Midway-Sunset field, California and conducts a continuous steamflood enhanced oil recovery demonstration aided by an integration of modern reservoir characterization and simulation methods. Cyclic steaming was used to reestablish baseline production within the reservoir characterization phase of the project. During the demonstration phase begun in January 1997, a continuous steamflood enhanced oil recovery was initiated to test the incremental value of this method as an alternative to cyclic steaming. Other economically marginal Class III reservoirs having similar producibility problems will benefit from insight gained in this project. The objectives of the project are: (1) to return the shut-in portion of the reservoir to optimal commercial production; (2) to accurately describe the reservoir and the recovery process; and (3) to convey the details of this activity to the domestic petroleum industry, especially to other producers in California, through an aggressive technology transfer program.

• Research Organization: Federal Energy Technology Center, Morgantown, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: FC22-95BC14937
• OSTI ID: 1471
• Report Number(s): DE-FC22-95BC14937-07; ON: DE00001471
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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