Oil recovery by hydrocarbon slugs driven by a hot water bank

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1970 · Soc. Pet. Eng. AIME, Pap.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5001020

Alikhan, A A; Farouq Ali, S M

The present work was concerned with an experimental study of the recovery of oil from a porous medium, containing a residual oil, or a connate water saturation, by injection of a small slug of light hydrocarbon, followed by one-half pore volume of hot water, driven by a conventional waterflood. The experiments were conducted in a core packed with glass beads, having a rectangular cross section of 1.5 in. x 3.5 in. and a length of 4 ft. The porosity and permeability were 40% and 7 darcys, respectively. The core was overlain and underlain by sand packs to simulate the adjacent heat-conducting formations. Thermocouples fitted in the porous medium, and thermometers inserted in the overburden and underburden, were used for temperature measurements during a run. Heat-loss rates at 2 points along the core length were determined by heat flux transducers.

• Research Organization: Kuwait Univ.
• OSTI ID: 5001020
• Report Number(s): CONF-701012-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Soc. Pet. Eng. AIME, Pap.; (United States) Journal Volume: SPE-3081
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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02 PETROLEUM
020300* -- Petroleum-- Drilling & Production
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
CONNATE WATER
ENERGY LOSSES
ENERGY SOURCES
ENHANCED RECOVERY
FLUID INJECTION
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
GROUND WATER
HEAT LOSSES
HEATING
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INTERSTITIAL WATER
LOSSES
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
OIL WELLS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PERMEABILITY
PETROLEUM
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
POROSITY
RECOVERY
RESERVOIR TEMPERATURE
RESIDUAL PETROLEUM
STIMULATION
STRUCTURAL MODELS
TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT
THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY
THERMOCOUPLES
THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES
WATER
WATERFLOODING
WELL STIMULATION
WELLS