Feasibility study and numerical simulation to design the steam flooding pilot test patterns

Abstract

AbstractSteam flooding is a method of injecting steam to heat the oil and decrease its viscosity so that it will be easy to flow from injector to producer. Fula North East oil field is a massive edge and bottom water reservoir with good properties and high viscosity of crude oil. As of March 2018, the oil field has been fully commissioned in steam stimulation for 3 years and the water cut rises rapidly and the oil rate declines seriously. In this paper, through comprehensive analysis of the geological properties of reservoir, production dynamics of single well and cement quality of wellbore, the steam flooding pilot test area under different well groups is screened out. Advanced thermal enhanced oil recovery simulator has been used to build the model of 279, 888 cells to design and optimize steam flooding pilot area for this field. The best well space and development program are optimized; this paper supplies a theoretical foundation for the next step of steam flooding in the whole field. The results show that the optimum steam flooding parameters for this area are steam injection temperature of 270 °C, with 5–7 MPa injection pressure, steam injection quality of more than 0.6 and steam injection rate of 1.6 m3/day/ha/m, and the final recovery ratio will reach 32.3%.