Design of a Cyclic Steam Stimulation Pilot Test for the Orinoco Oil Belt. A New Vision About Steam Injection Flow Rates 

Author: Guitian J., co-author
Event: SPE Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference
Publication date: 2017

In some of the giant extra-heavy oil fields from the Orinoco Oil Belt (OOB), the challenge is to increase recovery over primary production by about 10%. To get this, it is necessary to apply EOR processes. It is visualized the integral design of a cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) pilot test, using a high steam injection rate. It is identified and quantified the main variables and operational parameters affecting the performance of CSS, for an oil field at OOB.

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