CO/sub 2/ flood: design and initial operations, Ford Geraldine (Delaware Sand) Unit

Conference · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1983 · Soc. Pet. Eng. AIME, Pap.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5930794

Phillips, L A; Mcpherson, J L; Leibrecht, R J

A miscible CO/sub 2/ flood was initiated in a 3850-acre area of the Ford Geraldine (Delaware Sand) Unit in Reeves and Culberson counties, Texas, in Feb. 1981, after a staged waterflood was nearing completion. The CO/sub 2/ supply is a by-product from the Lone Star Pikes Peak gas plant. This previously vented product is compressed to a supercritical state and transported to the unit through a 112-mile pipeline which has a capacity of 30 MMcfd. Compression and transmission system design has minimized start-up and operational problems. Capital costs were reduced by utilizing most of the existing waterflood distribution system. Lack of a sufficient and stable CO/sub 2/ supply has caused most of the operational problems. New vessels have been installed to better handle production well testing. In addition, a system has been developed and installed to automate all injection and production data so as to provide the surveillance information to properly monitor the flood performance.

• OSTI ID: 5930794
• Report Number(s): CONF-8310121-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Soc. Pet. Eng. AIME, Pap.; (United States) Journal Volume: SPE-12197
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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