Downhole Electrical Heating techniques in the Orinoco Oil Belt, are they always reliable? Appraisal analysis to Petrocedeño's Pilot Project
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Abstract
Abstract This paper gives a brief description about the appraisal analysis conducted for the Down Hole Electrical Heating Petrocedeño's Pilot Project, which has revealed several issues of concern during the evaluation of the oil recovery techniques, focused in the Orinoco Oil Belt (OOB) Field features and the need to have optimized production. OOB is one of the most prospective assets of Venezuela natural resources. Since its discovery, it has shown a very concerning mobility challenge, which once was considered too high to be produced commercially, also it drove to catalog that oil as tar and sell it as coal. With the development of several technologies and techniques, and the increment of the oil price through the time, the exploitation of the Orinoco Oil Belt Fields has become feasible. Despite the experience gathered in analog reservoirs in Canada and United States, thermal applications of EOR and IOR, such as SAGD, HASD, CSS, VAPEX, Etc., cannot be implemented in most of the mature fields in the OOB, because their development plans just considered primary recovery, plus thermal materials were not used in producer well completions. Then, it was necessary to choose a technique with low thermal impact to the completion configuration, in order to increase oil production in those developed fields, helping to reach the final recovery factor estimated to primary production. Since Petrocedeño Field is one example of that scenario and as other fields in the OOB, Downhole Electrical Heating was seen as a possible solution to accomplish with the production requirements. Considering that Petrocedeño has experience with non-thermal techniques aimed to increase oil rate, it was possible to compare and to identify several features that helps to decide which case is best suited to use rather DHEH or the others techniques according to each wells characteristics. Finally a comparison will be provided and the key issues that helps to decide which scenario is better to use the Downhole Electrical Heating Technique. As a general conclusion, it was pointed that, since the reservoirs are not homogeneous, hence the fields can have more than two reservoirs contained in the same area and may be in the same structure, plus each well has its own challenges according its dimensions, there is not a single solution to have an improvement in the production, and the increment of recovery factor, which has to be finally defined to each well individually.
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| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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