Oxygen Enriched In-Situ Combustion of the West Newport Field Crude Oil
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In-situ combustion is the process of igniting crude oil and propagating a combustion front through an oil reservoir. Historically, compressed air has been the injection gas that propagates and moves the front. However, in a 1954 AIME paper, H. J. Ramey, Jr. suggested oxygen enrichment of the injected gas stream to improve the in-situ combustion process. The idea of in-situ combustion originated in 1923 when a patent was granted on a similar process. However, it was not until 1952, in Oklahoma, that two modern field tests were conducted. Now, in-situ combustion has been tested in over a hundred field applications many of which have been reviewed and compared in the literature (Farouq Ali, 1972; Brigham -- et al., 1980).
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | June 1983 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Macfarlane, Sandy |
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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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- Macfarlane, Sandy. (1983). Oxygen Enriched In-Situ Combustion of the West Newport Field Crude Oil. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/hx711kn2021
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