Midway-Sunset keeps producing oil with a little help from steam injection
Journal Article
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· Hart`s Oil and Gas World
OSTI ID:249817
The largest field in the lower 48 states runs on steam injection and well-honed maintenance. The glory days of the Midway-Sunset field had been gone for more than four decades by the beginning of the 1960s. Production had peaked in 1914 with an average of 94,140 bo/d. The field, except for an occasional spike, had been in decline until steam-injection began. The advent of steam injection to increase recovery of the field`s heavy crude began on a pilot basis in 1963. If anyone had predicted the dramatic effect steam would have on Midway-Sunset as well as other California heavy crude fields, the prediction would have been met with total disbelief. The first steam project in California had been initiated by Shell Oil Co. in the Yorba Linda field in the Los Angeles Basin in 1960. Other pilot projects followed in the Coalinga and Kern River fields. Today, Berry Petroleum Co. continues as one of the field`s most successful steamers. The company`s ongoing steam efforts have played a major role in making Berry the top California-based independent producer in the field. Steam contributed to the posting by Berry of a 32% increase in this year`s second quarter earnings.
- OSTI ID:
- 249817
- Journal Information:
- Hart`s Oil and Gas World, Journal Name: Hart`s Oil and Gas World Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 87; ISSN 1075-5365; ISSN HOGWF6
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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