The Development of High-Viscous Oil Resources of Petroleum Fields

摘要

Oil-and-gas (hereafter, petroleum) fields are in the category of hardly recoverable deposits. If the oil viscosity exceeds 150 cP, the difficulty of the development of such fields increases significantly. At present, there are practically no alternative for various thermic methods of impact on the bed simulation. In this paper, we substantiate the possibility of developing petroleum fields with high-viscous oil (HVO) on the basis of simpler low-cost technologies. The unique petroleum field in Cenomanian rocks of the Russkoe oil field is one of the most representative objects. Regardless of different approaches to the recovery of oil resources on the basis of thermic methods, the development of this field has not yet been started. In addition to the high viscosity of oil (approximately 180 cP), other factors also complicate the development of this field.