An Engineering and Economic Analysis of a Steamflood Plus Surfactant Field Project
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In 1980, the Stanford University Petroleum Research Institute embarked on a field project designed to test the effectiveness of the surfactant Suntech IV in overcoming gravity override and channelling during the steam injection process. This test was completed in December of 1983, and proved to be successful. The purpose of this study was two-fold. First, an attempt was made to accurately calculate the incremental oil produced due to the surfactant. This was done using two well known analytical steamflood models, the Marx and Langenheim frontal displacement model and the Vogel overlay model, for the purpose of establishing a baseline production curve without surfactant. The Marx and Langenheim model produced reasonable results well in line with thoseobtained via simple extrapolation of the pre-test decline curve. The Vogel model, on the other hand, gave no relevant results and was deemed inapplicable to this reservoir.The second part of this study dealt with the economic feasibility of a steam plus surfactant injection project. An economic analysis was performed on the pilot project, and a net loss of money was determined. Next, a scenario for a commercial scale implementation of the steam plus surfactant system was hypothesized and analyzed. Three different levels of incremental oil produced were tested, and in each case overwhelming financial success resulted.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | September 1984 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Strom, Joseph L. |
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| Primary advisor | Brigham, William E. |
| Degree granting institution | Stanford University, Department of Petroleum Engineering |
Subjects
| Subject | School of Earth Energy & Environmental Sciences |
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| Genre | Thesis |
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- Strom, Joseph L. (1984). An Engineering and Economic Analysis of a Steamflood Plus Surfactant Field Project. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/cx997pr0242
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