Abstract:
The advance of the interface between driving and driven fluids in a secondary recovery operation toward a production well is delayed by the imposition of a gradient barrier of produced hydrocarbon fluids injected into the formation via a control well in line between an injection well and a production well, the recirculation of the formation hydrocarbon fluids providing a dynamic barrier, and by retarding cusp formation via wells controlling the advance of flow gradients to spread the interface.
Abstract:
The interface between driving and driven fluids in a secondary recovery operation is reshaped after a cusp has developed by injection of fluids via control wells to delay the arrival of the injected driving fluid into the vicinity of a production well.
Abstract:
At the conclusion of a secondary recovery operation in a direct line drive, after breakthrough of the driving fluid at the production wells in alternate series of a pair of production wells and an intermediate injection well having a different rate of injection of driving fluid, production is continued via the wells in the remainder of alternate series until breakthrough, and thereupon, for tertiary recovery, by the imposition of a new set of flow gradients, the original injection wells are shut in, the production wells with the initial breakthrough are converted into injection wells and production is continued via the remainder of the production wells.
Abstract:
Upon termination of predetermined periods during a secondary recovery operation in a direct line drive, the intermediate injection wells in each series are shut in and the production wells in alternate series are converted to injection wells, for tertiary recovery via the remainder of the production wells by the imposition of a new set of flow gradients, one predetermined period occurring at breakthrough of the driving fluid at the production wells and another upon injection of a predetermined breakthrough volume, production being continued past breakthrough.
Abstract:
The interface between driving and driven fluids in a secondary recovery operation is retarded and/or reshaped after a cusp has developed by injection of fluids via wells controlling the advance of flow gradients and to delay the arrival of the injected driving fluid into the vicinity of a production well by the imposition of a dynamic gradient barrier of produced hydrocarbon fluids to spread the interface.
Abstract:
The interface between driving and driven fluids in a secondary recovery operation is reshaped after a cusp has developed by injection of fluids via control wells to delay the arrival of the injected driving fluid into the vicinity of a production well, and by retarding cusp formation via wells controlling the advance of flow gradients to spread the interface.
Abstract:
The advance of the interface between driving and driven fluids in a secondary recovery operation toward a production well is delayed by the imposition of a gradient barrier of produced hydrocarbon fluids injected into the formation via a control well in line between an injection well and a production well, the recirculation of the formation hydrocarbon fluids providing a dynamic barrier.