EP0886035B1 - Procédé de récupération assistée de fluids pétroliers dans un gisement souterrain - Google Patents
Procédé de récupération assistée de fluids pétroliers dans un gisement souterrain Download PDFInfo
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- EP0886035B1 EP0886035B1 EP98401342A EP98401342A EP0886035B1 EP 0886035 B1 EP0886035 B1 EP 0886035B1 EP 98401342 A EP98401342 A EP 98401342A EP 98401342 A EP98401342 A EP 98401342A EP 0886035 B1 EP0886035 B1 EP 0886035B1
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
- E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
- E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
- E21B43/16—Enhanced recovery methods for obtaining hydrocarbons
- E21B43/18—Repressuring or vacuum methods
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
- E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
- E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
- E21B43/16—Enhanced recovery methods for obtaining hydrocarbons
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
- E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
- E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
- E21B43/16—Enhanced recovery methods for obtaining hydrocarbons
- E21B43/164—Injecting CO2 or carbonated water
Definitions
- the present invention relates to an enhanced recovery method for petroleum fluids in an underground deposit making it possible to increase the efficiency of scanning and more particularly to improve a recovery technique.
- Recovery is said to be of primary type when using energy in if you.
- the expansion of the fluids initially under high pressure in the deposit allows to recover part of the oil in place. During this phase, the pressure in the deposit can drop below the bubble point and a gas phase appears, which helps increase the recovery rate.
- the principle consists in displacing petroleum fluids by an external energy supply to the deposit. Fluids are injected into the deposit through one or more wells injection and the displaced petroleum fluids (hereinafter referred to as "oil") are recovered by production wells.
- Water can be used as a displacement fluid but its efficiency is limited. A large part of the oil remains in place, in particular because its viscosity is often much stronger than that of water. The oil also often remains trapped by narrowing of the pores due to the high interfacial tension between them and water. As the deposit is often heterogeneous, the water easily sweeps the areas the most permeable, bypassing the others, resulting in a significant loss of recovery.
- the method according to the present invention makes it possible to move fluids tankers retained in the pores of a porous underground deposit. It has a pressure injection step by one or more injection wells successively, caps of fluids intended to move the hydrocarbons in the rock-reservoirs, and a stage of recovery, by one or more production wells, of displaced hydrocarbons.
- the injection step includes the successive injection plugs of the wetting liquid which have been saturated with a gas under soluble pressure in the said wetting liquid and gas caps intended to sweep the areas more permeable, and the production stage involves the release of the prevailing pressure in the deposit, so as to generate gas bubbles in situ by nucleation in the pores of less permeable areas (part of the matrix with the most pores small) and drive the oil out to the more permeable areas where they are moved by gas caps.
- part of the dissolved gas is released in the form of bubbles preferably on the irregular surface elements and therefore on the walls of the pores.
- the nucleation effect is more marked where the density of pore walls by volume unit is the largest i.e. in areas of lower permeability with smaller pores where the oil is the most difficult to remove.
- the wetting fluid is for example water, at least one plug of water injected being saturated with pressurized carbon dioxide for example or hydrogen sulfide.
- At least one of the liquid stoppers wetting agent injected during the injection step may include water with a substance capable of making the spreading coefficient of the drops negative hydrocarbons and for example alcohol. We can thus alternate the plugs of wetting liquid, some saturated with gas under pressure, others added with the said substance, others without any additives.
- At least one of the plugs wetting liquid injected during the injection step includes added water foaming agents or surfactants, so that the release of pressure in the deposit generates the in situ formation of mosses which greatly simplifies the implementation of this type of scanning.
- the bar is provided at its two opposite ends with two end pieces which have conventionally been connected to circuits for injection and drainage of water and oil.
- the bar was prepared by the following operations to bring it successively into a state of saturation with irreducible water Swi and residual saturation with oil Sor.
- water plugs are added injected with foaming agents or surfactants.
- the pressure drop caused after injection has the effect of foaming or emulsifying these additives, which allows to greatly simplify the problems generally posed by the injection of these additives.
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Description
Mise en Swi | ||
VOLUME D'HUILE INJECTEE | VOLUME D'EAU RECUPERE | PRESSION D'INJECTION |
100 cm3/h | 75 cm3 | 22 kPa |
200 cm3/h | 82 cm3 | 28 kPa |
300 cm3/h | 85 cm3 | 35 kPa |
400 cm3/h | 88 cm3 | 40 kPa |
Volume d'huile en place = 88 cm3 ⇒ Swi = (110 - 88)/110 = 20% |
Mise en Sor | ||
VOLUME D'EAU INJECTEE | VOLUME D'HUILE RECUPEREE | PRESSION D'INJECTION |
200 cm3/h | 64 cm3 | 24 kPa |
400 cm3/h | 65 cm3 | 54 kPa |
volume mort Vm = 2 cm3 ⇒ Sor = (88-67)/110 = 21/110 = 19 % |
Claims (6)
- Procédé pour déplacer des hydrocarbures retenus dans les pores des roches-réservoirs d'un gisement souterrain comportant une étape d'injection sous pression par un ou plusieurs puits d'injection successivement, de bouchons de fluides destinés à déplacer les hydrocarbures dans les roches-réservoirs, et une étape de récupération, par un ou plusieurs puits de production, des hydrocarbures déplacés, caractérisé en ce que l'étape d'injection comporte l'injection successive de bouchons du liquide mouillant que l'on a saturés avec un gaz sous pression soluble dans ledit liquide mouillant et de bouchons gazeux destinés à balayer les zones plus perméables, et l'étape de production comporte le relâchement de la pression régnant dans le gisement, de manière à générer in situ des bulles de gaz par nucléation dans les pores des zones moins perméables et en chasser les hydrocarbures vers les zones plus perméables où ils sont balayés par les bouchons de gaz.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le fluide mouillant est de l'eau, au moins un bouchon d'eau injectée étant saturé avec du dioxyde de carbone sous pression.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le fluide mouillant est de l'eau, au moins un bouchon d'eau injectée étant saturé avec de l'hydrogène sulfuré.
- Procédé selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que l'un au moins des bouchons de liquide mouillant injecté durant l'étape d'injection comporte de l'eau additionnée d'une substance propre à rendre négatif le coefficient d'étalement des gouttes d'hydrocarbures, par exemple de l'alcool.
- Procédé selon la revendication précédente, caractérisé en ce que l'un au moins des bouchons de liquide mouillant injecté durant l'étape d'injection comporte de l'eau sans additif.
- Procédé selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que l'un au moins des bouchons de liquide mouillant injecté durant l'étape d'injection comporte de l'eau additionnée d'agents moussants ou de tensio-actifs, de façon que le relâchement de la pression dans le gisement engendre la formation in situ de mousses ou d'émulsions.
Applications Claiming Priority (2)
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FR9707611A FR2764632B1 (fr) | 1997-06-17 | 1997-06-17 | Procede de recuperation assistee de fluides petroliers dans un gisement souterrain |
FR9707611 | 1997-06-17 |
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EP0886035A2 EP0886035A2 (fr) | 1998-12-23 |
EP0886035A3 EP0886035A3 (fr) | 2001-09-26 |
EP0886035B1 true EP0886035B1 (fr) | 2004-09-08 |
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EP98401342A Expired - Lifetime EP0886035B1 (fr) | 1997-06-17 | 1998-06-05 | Procédé de récupération assistée de fluids pétroliers dans un gisement souterrain |
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US (1) | US6105672A (fr) |
EP (1) | EP0886035B1 (fr) |
CA (1) | CA2239759C (fr) |
FR (1) | FR2764632B1 (fr) |
NO (1) | NO323039B1 (fr) |
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FR2764632B1 (fr) | 2000-03-24 |
NO982769D0 (no) | 1998-06-16 |
EP0886035A3 (fr) | 2001-09-26 |
CA2239759A1 (fr) | 1998-12-17 |
NO982769L (no) | 1998-12-18 |
NO323039B1 (no) | 2006-12-27 |
FR2764632A1 (fr) | 1998-12-18 |
EP0886035A2 (fr) | 1998-12-23 |
CA2239759C (fr) | 2008-01-29 |
US6105672A (en) | 2000-08-22 |
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