El Dorado micellar-polymer demonstration project (first annual report)

Technical Report · Wed Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1975

OSTI ID:6544451

Rosenwald, G W; Miller, R J

The El Dorado Micellar-Polymer Demonstration Project is a cooperative venture between Cities Service Oil Co. and the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA). Numerous Cities Service scientists and engineers have authored the various sections of this first annual report. The El Dorado Demonstration Project is designed to allow a side-by-side comparison of 2 distinct micellar-polymer processes in the same field so that the reservoir conditions for the 2 floods are as nearly alike as possible. Each of the floods is to involve multiple contiguous patterns. Each process is to be tested on 25.6 acres (a total of 51.2 acres for the 2 floods). The primary activities related to engineering operations have been (1) selection of the test site, (2) development of the optimum pattern, (3) drilling of the test wells, and (4) drilling of the pattern wells. The Admire Sand (locally named the 650-ft Sand) was chosen in an area of the El Dorado field, Butler County, Kansas, as the test site for this demonstration project. The initial pattern chosen to conduct the demonstration flood was a 6.4-acre 9-spot. However, additional study has led to the conclusion that a 5-spot configuration will provide the optimum pattern.

• Research Organization: Cities Service Oil Co., Tulsa, OK (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6544451
• Report Number(s): BERC/TPR-75/1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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