CO2 miscible flooding for Aswad Oil Field

Abstract

The current renewed interest on research and development of EOR processes and their oilfield implementation would allow targeting significant volumes of oil accumulations that have been left behind in mature reservoirs after primary and secondary oil recovery operations.During the life of a producing oil field, several production stages are encountered. Initially, when a field is brought into production, oil flows naturally to the surface due to existing reservoir pressure in the primary phase. As reservoir pressure drops, water is typically injected to boost the pressure to displace the oil in the secondary phase. Lastly, the remaining oil can be recovered by a variety of means such as CO2 injection, natural gas miscible injection, and steam recovery in the final tertiary or enhanced oil recovery (EOR) phase.The main parameter for determination of the possibilities to enhance oil recovery by e.g. CO2 injection into a specific oil field is the measurement of Minimum Miscibility Pressure (MMP). This pressure is the lowest pressure for which a gas can obtain miscibility through a multi contact process with a given oil reservoir at the reservoir temperature. The oil formation to which the process is applied must be operated at or above the MMP. And we obtained by using PVTi software.The objective of this paper is to check if the Aswad field is suited for the application of CO2 miscible flooding and to see how much the recovery factor will increase after applying this EOR technique and to obtain the best WAG ratio and injection rate.