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DRENAJE GRAVITACIONAL ASISTIDO CON VAPOR, SAGD, APLICADO A YACIMIENTOS DE CRUDOS PESADOS
Ist Teil von
Revista fuentes, el reventón energético (En linea), 2016-06, Vol.14 (1), p.35-42
Ort / Verlag
Universidad Industrial de Santander
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
Quelle
EZB Electronic Journals Library
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Worldwide, new techniques to implement Enhanced Oil Recovery in heavy oil reservoirs have been studying, since as most of the global reserves are of this type of hydrocarbon. The Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) is a cutting age EOR method that have been applied in bitumen reservoirs gaining successful results, obtaining recovery factors up to 50%. The technique involves two horizontal wells, the first one located a few feet above the second one depending on the viscosity of the crude oil; by the upper well, the continuous vapor injection is made an for density differences this vapor tents to expand to the top of the formation heating the hydrocarbons which then, by gravity come down in the reservoir to be produce, with the condensed vapor, through the second horizontal well. The production mechanism evidenced in this technique is the gravity drainage because in its implementation, applied to bitumen, only the heated hydrocarbons will flow through the producer well by the effect of the gravity therefore a connectivity between the two wells must be necessary. However, in the majority of heavy oil reservoirs the crude have mobility i.e. the viscosity is not to high (<10.000 cP), at which the SAGD technique is not effective. This is because in this reservoirs no only the gravitational forces have influence, the viscous forces does to, whereby the injected vapor expands to the overburden, canalizing the vapor, generating energy losses and emulsions formation, causing that the vapor chamber, which is the physical principle of the SAGD, not to form. This paper presents a comparison of the behavior and develop of the vapor chamber in two different reservoirs with the same characteristics but different type of fluids, the first one is saturated with an extra heavy oil (254814 cP) and the other saturated with a heavy oil with mobility (4019.6 cP) in which the overriding of the vapor in the mobile oil by the effect of the gravitational forces is observed.