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Enhanced oil recovery of deposits by maintaining a rational reservoir pressure

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D.Zh.Abdeli*, orcid.org/0000-0002-1753-4952, Satbayev University, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

A.S.Yskak, orcid.org/0000-0002-2532-2642, Satbayev University, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

B.A.Shilanbayev, orcid.org/0000-0002-5299-1905, Satbayev University, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

B.A.Baluanov, orcid.org/0009-0006-6298-6022, Satbayev University, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan,  e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Naukovyi Visnyk Natsionalnoho Hirnychoho Universytetu. 2024, (4): 048 - 054

https://doi.org/10.33271/nvngu/2024-4/048

Abstract:

Purpose. Increasing oil recovery from deposits and reducing the water content of producing wells by providing conditions for uniform displacement of oil from the reservoir under the influence of high reservoir pressure.

Methodology. The purpose of the work is achieved by conducting theoretical and experimental studies of the process of creating high elastic energy in the formation by pumping water with injection well pumps to overcome the resistance of oil and water filtration through the pores of the rock and oil rise at the mouth of producing wells. The absence of pumps from producing wells and the acceptance of equal amounts of injection and production wells over the reservoir area significantly increases the reservoir pressure above the pressure of oil saturation with gas. Due to the significant elasticity of the rock and fluids under high reservoir pressure, the oil coverage with water increases and there is no premature breakthrough of water into producing wells. The possibility of creating high elastic energy in an oil reservoir by pumping water into injection wells has been experimentally studied.

Findings. It has been established that high reservoir energy in the field of elastic deformation of rock and fluids can be created mainly by pumps from injection wells, due to which oil is uniformly displaced from the reservoir along the entire front without breaking through the injected water into producing wells along the path of least resistance. The adoption of equal amounts of producing and injection wells and their sequential arrangement in rows contributes to the development of high potential energy in the reservoir and increase the pick-up rate of injection and production wells. As a result, the skeleton of the rock forming the pores expands, and the water injected into the reservoir and the displaced oil accumulate and increase reservoir energy.

Originality. The effectiveness of the proposed method for maintaining high reservoir pressure is achieved as a result of creating high energy of rock and fluids in the area of their elastic deflation and increasing the coverage coefficients of oil displaced by water over the area and profile of the productive formation without the use of additional capacities and pumping units from producing wells.

Practical value. The developed new technique for maintaining high elastic reservoir pressure not lower than the pressure of oil saturation with gas by pumping water into the reservoir can be carried out in oil fields using standard technological equipment and increase oil recovery to 60–70 % at its existing values of 40–45 % and reduce the water content of produced oil to 0–10 % at its existing values of 20–80 % and above.

Keywords: oil deposit, formation, well, pressure, oil recovery, equipment

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