SPE 125414
Water Problems and Control Techniques in Heavy Oils With Bottom Aquifers
Abstract
As conventional petroleum is approaching its maximum production and the world oil demand continues to grow,heavy oil
becomes one of the obvious replacement resources.One of the most important problems in heavy oil recovery is dramatic
loss of wells’productivity at the onset of water inflow due to the two fluids’mobility contrast.Not only the recovery at
breakthrough time is very low,but also the water cut increase is extremely rapid.
The paper presents a worldwide survey of heavy oil reservoirs with water problems and their production methods including
the in-situ water drainage with down-hole water sink(DWS)completion.It also investigates the mechanisms of productivity
reduction and loss of recovery in wells producing heavy oil with bottom water drive.
In the study,the production system(nodal)analysis model simulates well’s inflow performance relationship(IPR)with
variable water cut.The results capture the difference between heavy and light oil in terms of mobility ratio effect,recovery
dynamics prior to and after water breakthrough,and water cut control with production rate.The IPR performance of water
drainage with DWS wells is also presented and discussed.
稠油底水油藏水锥及控制
摘要
随着轻质油的开采已达到最大限度和全世界对石油需求的持续增长,稠油被认为是一种重要的替代资源。稠油开采最大的问题就是由于油水两相的流动差别导致油井见水后产量快速的下降,不仅无水采油期短而且含水会快速的上升。
这篇文章陈述了全世界稠油油藏的水锥问题以及它们的开采方式包括井底水层完井来排地层水的措施,同时也调研了开发稠油底水油藏的油井产量下降和最终采收率低的机理。
在这其中的研究中,还应用了不同含水率时的井底流入动态曲线(IPR)进行分析,得到了轻质油和稠油由于流度比的影响见水前后的产量以及用采油速度来控制含水率。底部水层完井排水的IPR曲线也被绘出和讨论。
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