... Summary Recommended practices are given for the steamflood heat management process: data collection, data analysis and adjustments to steam injection. A generic monitoring data table is presented which can be tailored to an individual project. The various options for modeling steamfloods...

... & Simulation enhanced recovery Artificial Intelligence heat management heavy oil reservoir heat management model energy requirement profitability steam-assisted gravity drainage Implementation Steamflood Process reservoir Upstream Oil & Gas economic analysis steam injection rate strategy 1...

... was developed to optimize heat management in mature steamfloods in dipping reservoirs. A 30% "safe" margin above the calculated minimum energy requirement is proposed as a target for the reduction of the steam injection into mature projects. The proposed strategy could result in significant fuel cost savings...

... a comprehensive heat management review of the steamflood expansion projects. The main objective was to optimize steam use and maximize oil production. The team's approach was to incorporate all available project data to assess heat and fluid migration in each target sand. Additional monitoring data were gathered...

.... P. 433 upstream oil & gas sagd enhanced recovery latent heat spe 29659 base case steam-assisted gravity drainage steam quality heat injection rate sensible heat steam chest saturation heat management oil recovery steamflood production response total heat injection rate...

... 7 shows lost energy as a function of pilot area (calculated using numerical simulation). Abstract A number of publications ( Valbuena, 2009 ; Haroun, 2008 ; Schoofs, 2010 ; Meshal, 2009 ) have shown the application and also the relevance of heat management in steamflooding projects...

... completion objective interference test enhanced recovery steam-assisted gravity drainage heat management steamflood operation Artificial Intelligence Upstream Oil & Gas information observation well baffle zone commercial project reservoir evaluation steam quality injection surveillance...

.... This helped lead to reduced steam injection and improved thermal efficiency through the use of heat management. This paper discusses the shift to the concept of steam override and gravity drainage as steamflood recovery mechanisms and the subsequent use of heat management practices that improved thermal...

... the reservoir and/or projects that are ready and would benefit from significant steam reduction. The methodology uses heat management knowledge, large datasets, and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The workflow exploits the log data, existing full-field earth model, the current steamflood conditions...

... The following control parameters are used to optimize the amount of heat injected and simultaneous cash flow management of a steamflooding project: Control Parameters in Heat Management and Heating Analysis Process Once the proper heat requirement was determined for a project, follow-up surveillance...

... of the solutions used to optimize the operating strategies for these mature steamflood areas. Updated information about oil saturation and steam indication was obtained for zones within the existing steam flood to determine the economic value/risk of producing bypassed oil, for effective heat management and also...

... that a fully compositional thermal model that includes non-interconnected fractures is required to model the phase behavior, heat transfer and effect of fractures in this light-oil naturally-fractured reservoir. Introduction Typically, steamfloods are performed in heavy oil reservoirs with high viscosities...

... steamflooding response seen in the clastic reservoirs. The steam injection rate-cuts ( Figure 8b ) did not adversely impact the oil production decline rate ( Figure 8b ) and demonstrated successful applicability of the heat management in a dolomitic carbonate reservoir. Following the second heat management rate...

... thermal operations has remained stable in most of the mature producing areas through technological advances. Heat management has improved through the use of thermal analytical models, simulation software, and the combination of the two technologies. Comprehensive steamflood surveillance programs...

... opportunities to improve the depletion review process on top of established heating processes. The new process will help to address current challenges in Duri steamflood operations. This paper describes the new Duri optimization steamflood depletion review process, implementation and result. Geological...

... types of experiments; one was for steamflooding a homogeneous reservoir (base case run), and the other was for steamflooding a reservoir having a 20% net pay bottom water layer. Analyses include comparisons between steam zone volumes obtained experimentally and theoretically, and heat distribution (heat...

... to heavy oil reservoir management. INTRODUCTION steamflood heavy oil reservoir management upstream oil & gas injection rate wasp reservoir simulation steam injection thermal method reservoir management heat management steam breakthrough modeling & simulation steam-assisted...

... of steamflooding reservoirs having a 20% bottom-water layer. Experimental data showed that large amount of heat is stored in the bottom-water layer; hence, incremental oil recovery for such a reservoir depends on the management of heat contained in the fluids. Steamflooding strategies used in Run 9 increased...

...1 Schematic diagram of the components of heat management for steamflood ...