Economic Implementation and Optimization of Secondary Oil Recovery Process: St. Mary West Field, Lafayette County, Arkansas

Technical Report · Mon Mar 10 00:00:00 EST 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/808644· OSTI ID:808644

Brock P E, Cary D

The purpose of this study was to investigate the economic appropriateness of several enhanced oil recovery processes that are available to a small mature oil field located in southwest Arkansas and to implement the most economic efficient process evaluated. The State of Arkansas natural resource laws require that an oilfield is to be unitized before conducting a secondary recovery project. This requires all properties that can reasonably be determined to include the oil productive reservoir must be bound together as one common lease by a legal contract that must be approved to be fair and equitable to all property owners within the proposed unit area.

• 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: FG26-00BC15254
• OSTI ID: 808644
• Report Number(s): DOE/BC/15254-1; TRN: US200308%%91
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: 10 Mar 2003
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ARKANSAS
ECONOMICS
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