Williams Holding Lease, Steamflood Demonstration Pilot,Cat Canyon Oil Field. First Annual Report,June 25, 1976--June 1, 1977.

摘要

On June 25, 1976 Getty Oil Company was awarded a cost-sharing contract from ERDA to conduct a joint steamflood pilot on the Williams Holding Lease of Cat Canyon Field in the Santa Maria Basin. The pilot program is being conducted to evaluate the efficiency and economics of the steam displacement process for future full-scale development in the Cat Canyon S1-B reservoir and similar heavy oil reservoirs. The project progress from the inception of the contract to June 1, 1977is discussed. Included are summaries of the predisplacement activities such as cyclic steam stimulation of the pilot wells,acquisition of steam generator permits,and the results of further computer simulation studies conducted under more restrictive assumptions for field operating conditions expected for the pilot project. Discussion of the displacement phase of the project,which started in April, 1977,is divided into three sections: (1) initial pilot performance, (2) steam generator operations,and (3) thermal packer failures. Future operations are then summarized. (ERA citation 03:036755)