METHOD FOR USING CO2 STORAGE IN STRUCTURAL LOWS TO ENHANCE RESERVOIR DRIVE MECHANISMS

    公开(公告)号:US20240068331A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-29

    申请号:US17822343

    申请日:2022-08-25

    CPC classification number: E21B41/0064 E21B43/164

    Abstract: A method and system for both enhancing oil recovery of a reservoir and permanently sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2) is described. The method includes dissolving CO2 in a base fluid at a surface location of an injection formation, forming a dense CO2-brine solution, introducing the dense CO2-brine solution into an injection well, accumulating a volume of the dense CO2-brine solution in a structural low, displacing a native formation fluid from the injection well, increasing a fluid drive pressure from the injection well to a producing well, and displacing hydrocarbons of the producing well. The system includes an injection system in fluid communication with an injection well, a production well of the hydrocarbon production formation, and a dense CO2-brine solution that has a density greater than a native formation fluid of the injection formation.

    METHOD FOR EVALUATING AND RANKING THE ENHANCED RECOVERY POTENTIAL FOR UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIRS

    公开(公告)号:US20250067718A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-27

    申请号:US18456438

    申请日:2023-08-25

    Abstract: A method to perform a field operation of an unconventional reservoir is disclosed. The method includes selecting, from rock samples and based on test reports of corresponding companion rock samples, selected rock samples representing rock characteristics of formation zones in the unconventional reservoir, performing, using a rock sample test apparatus, a sequence of rock sample test cycles on each selected rock sample to generate rock sample test results, generating, based on the rock sample test results, a ranking of the selected rock samples representing enhanced oil recovery (EOR) potential of the formation zones, selecting, from the formation zones and based on the ranking, a target formation zone having an EOR potential meeting a pre-determined criterion, and performing, based at least on the EOR potential of the target formation zone, the field production of the unconventional reservoir.

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    公开(公告)号:US12024983B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-02

    申请号:US17822343

    申请日:2022-08-25

    CPC classification number: E21B41/0064 E21B43/164

    Abstract: A method and system for both enhancing oil recovery of a reservoir and permanently sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2) is described. The method includes dissolving CO2 in a base fluid at a surface location of an injection formation, forming a dense CO2-brine solution, introducing the dense CO2-brine solution into an injection well, accumulating a volume of the dense CO2-brine solution in a structural low, displacing a native formation fluid from the injection well, increasing a fluid drive pressure from the injection well to a producing well, and displacing hydrocarbons of the producing well. The system includes an injection system in fluid communication with an injection well, a production well of the hydrocarbon production formation, and a dense CO2-brine solution that has a density greater than a native formation fluid of the injection formation.

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