E.A. Burlutsky, R.Kh. Sadreeva, A.A. Zalyatdinov, D.S. Beloklokov, I.V. Valiullin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25689/NP.2023.4.319-346
Abstract
Reducing the negative impact of industrial emissions into the Earth's atmosphere, as well as increasing the period of utilization of fossil resources in our time are among the most urgent tasks of the fuel and energy complex of Russia and the world. In this connection with this problem, injection of flue gases with steam at oil fields to increase oil recovery can be considered as an environmentally safe and economically feasible way to reduce harmful emissions and beneficial use of greenhouse gases.
Flue gases generated by power plants or other industrial facilities burning fossil fuels such as natural gas, fuel oil, coal, etc. can be used for injection using thermal recovery methods.
Thermal recovery methods have received much attention in laboratories to better understand their mechanisms of application. Among the methods used to intensify and enhance heavy oil production, steam injection is the most well-known and used worldwide.
All thermal recovery methods can be thought of as injecting energy (in the form of heat) into the reservoir, which heats the oil, reducing its viscosity and improving its mobility, facilitating displacement. Other mechanisms are also activated by heat, such as rock expansion, in which oil is displaced from rock pores, and oil distillation, in which light fractions vaporize to form a miscible front ahead of the steam. A number of researchers (Harding et al. 1983) (Nasr et al. 1987) and more recently (Goit 1999), (Yee 2002), (Simangunsong 2005), (Laboisière 2009) and (Rios 2011) have presented in their papers a number of experimental studies on steam and steam injection combined with additives such as propane, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, air and flue gases.
Thermal methods achieve high recovery rates, but often have operational efficiency issues. Operational efficiency is related to the high costs of steam generation and produced water treatment. A problem arises when these costs become unprofitable in a particular project. The problem can be translated into the need to reduce the rate of steam injection per unit volume of oil produced. Recent studies show that steam injection with inert gases allows to reduce this indicator ("Laboisière", 2009; "Rios", 2011).
The article analyzes the world experience of research of oil displacement efficiency using steam and flue gases.
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Authors
E.A. Burlutsky, Engineer of the Laboratory of the Center for Scientific and Technical Research, Almetyevsk State Petroleum Institute
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6998-2338
2, Lenin st., Almetyevsk, 423450, Russian Federation
E-mail: e.burluckiy@agni-rt.ru
R.Kh. Sadreeva, Head of the Laboratory of the Center for Scientific and Technical Research, Almetyevsk State Petroleum Institute
2, Lenin st., Almetyevsk, 423450, Russian Federation
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5327-5006
E-mail: roza.hatipovna@yandex.ru
A.A. Zalyatdinov, Head of the Center for Scientific and Technical Research, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Almetyevsk State Petroleum Institute
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8466-9013
2, Lenin st., Almetyevsk, 423450, Russian Federation
E-mail: zalyatdinovaa@agni-rt.ru
D.S. Beloklokov, engineer of the laboratory of filtration studies CNTI, Almetyevsk State Petroleum Institute
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0398-444X
2, Lenin st., Almetyevsk, 423450, Russian Federation
Email: dima9909@mail.ru
I.V. Valiullin, Associate Professor, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Leading Researcher, Almetyevsk State Petroleum Institute
2, Lenin st., Almetyevsk, 423450, Russian Federation
E-mail: agnisale@yandex.ru
For citation:
E.A. Burlutsky, R.Kh. Sadreeva, A.A. Zalyatdinov, D.S. Beloklokov, I.V. Valiullin Literaturnyy analiz sposobov zakachki dymovogo gaza s parom [Literature analysis of methods of flue gas injection with steam]. Neftyanaya Provintsiya, No. 4(36), 2023. pp. 319-346.
DOI https://doi.org/10.25689/NP.2023.4.319-346. EDN WWOGOG (in Russian)