Candidate Reservoirs for Enhanced Oil Recovery,Guidelines for Their Selection and Appraisal of Significant Tests to Date. Final Report.

摘要

Elements which are keys to the effective management of the ERDA Enhanced Oil Recovery Programs are described. Results of efforts to develop screening criteria to identify reservoir rock-fluid characteristics considered suitable for application of EOR processes which appear to have the best chance for commercial recovery of significant additional volumes of oil are summarized. A review of significant field tests made to develop the management matrices is included. Over a hundred published references describing completed and ongoing tests of EOR processes were reviewed to compile the data reported in the four matrices. The knowledge derived from these and subsequent field tests,plus that derived from laboratory research,serves to continually improve the state-of-the-art,thereby reducing the risk in tests yet to come. As the state-of-the-art improves,and as more data comes into the public domain,the matrices should be updated,and the screening criteria should be revised accordingly. An extensive set of data representing 2,420reservoirs in the United States which have been identified as potential candidates for enhanced oil recovery is included. (ERA citation 03:056505)