Review of BODO Fireflood Pilot Project

Conference · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1983 · Annu. Alberta Oil Sands Technol. and Res. Authority Adv. in Petrol. Recovery Technol. Conf.; ()

OSTI ID:6045115

Nazarko, T W

This work reviews the past, present, and projected future operations of the Bodo Fireflood Pilot Project in the Provost Upper Mannville B Pool of E.-central Alberta. This single pattern project was initiated in 1975 to evaluate the potential of tar sand oil recovery by the in situ combustion process. The pool is comprised of a high porosity McLaren Waseca channel sand deposit that attains a maximum thickness of 30 m and contains heavy oil with a density of 979 kg/cu m and in situ viscosity of 2,300 mpa/sec. Primary oil recovery is expected to reach 5%. The project operated as a dry combustion scheme until early in 1982 when wet combustion was initiated. During the dry combustion phase operation, 38,300,000 cu m of air was injected while 97,500 cu m of oil was produced. This amounts to an air/oil ratio of 395 cu m/cu m and an estimated oil recovery of ca 18% of the pilot drainage area oil in place. This favorable performance led to a decision to expand the pilot operation to 7, 6-ha 7-spots to demonstrate the satisfactory performance of a multi-pattern scheme.

• OSTI ID: 6045115
• Report Number(s): CONF-8305227-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Annu. Alberta Oil Sands Technol. and Res. Authority Adv. in Petrol. Recovery Technol. Conf.; ()
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ENERGY SOURCES
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