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Record W2567150256 · doi:10.2118/0116-0058-jpt

Designing an Optimized Surfactant Flood in the Bakken

2016· article· en· W2567150256 on OpenAlex
Chris Carpenter

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Petroleum Technology · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicReservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPulmonary surfactantImbibitionHydraulic fracturingPetroleum engineeringSoftware deploymentFlood mythEnhanced oil recoveryGeologyEngineeringChemical engineeringGeography

Abstract

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This article, written by JPT Technology Editor Chris Carpenter, contains highlights of paper SPE 175937, “Designing an Optimized Surfactant Flood in the Bakken,” by Matthew Dawson, Statoil; Duy Nguyen, Nalco Champion; and Huina Li, Statoil, prepared for the 2015 SPE/CSUR Unconventional Resources Conference, Calgary, 20–22 October. The paper has not been peer reviewed. The Bakken is one of the most prolific plays in North America, but, even with the deployment of horizontal wells and hydraulic fracturing, anticipated recovery factors under primary depletion are usually in the range of 10 to 20%. Waterflooding has been a commonly deployed technology in conventional reservoirs to enhance recovery beyond primary depletion. However, the Bakken’s ultratight, largely oil-wet nature limits the potential of waterflooding. As an alternative, an optimally spaced well-to- well surfactant-flooding technology is proposed. Introduction Recent studies focusing on wettability alteration by use of surfactant in the Bakken have shown strong potential. Spontaneous-imbibition tests in Bakken cores show recovery factors that can exceed 30% and sometimes achieve up to 60%. However, in an ultralow-permeability system, the rate of surfactant imbibition is perhaps more important than the ultimate recovery factor. Initial studies show potential, but to achieve an economical surfactant recovery process, ultrahigh imbibition rates must be achieved. In addition to the technical challenges associated with stability, compatibility, and injectivity, economical deployment of surfactant in a marginally profitable play such as the Bakken is another major challenge. To minimize the surfactant required for a successful process, a surfactant would ideally have an ultralow critical micelle concentration (CMC) and low adsorption while maintaining key performance indicators that are discussed in the complete paper.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.240
Threshold uncertainty score0.237

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.257
Teacher spread0.243 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it