SPE 150515: Advancing Thermal and Carbon Dioxide Recovery Methods beyond their Conventional Limits: Downhole Innovation

April 27, 2012 - 1 minute read

Advancing Thermal and Carbon Dioxide Recovery Methods beyond their Conventional Limits: Downhole Innovation (SPE 150515) Laura Capper, SPE, CAP Resources, Myron Kuhlman, SPE, MK Tech Solutions, George Vassilellis P.E., SPE Gaffney Cline Associates

Abstract
Steam or CO2 injection methods account for most of the oil recovered worldwide with Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) methods. Currently heavy oil production is less than 7% of the world’s oil production; this percentage is not expected to increase dramatically without significant changes in reservoir management. Steam and CO2 have been used successfully since early 1960s — steam in viscous heavy oils and CO2 mostly in pressurized light oil fields but also in some heavy oil fields. What limits a wider application is depth and high pressure for steam and CO2 availability for the relatively large inventory of light oil fields that exist worldwide. Although there is some overlap in fields that could benefit from either application, there are not many recorded attempts to implement both methods simultaneously…

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