Neftyanaya Provintsiya
electronic peer-reviewed scholarly publication
Neftyanaya provintsiya No. 2(42), 2025

Application of sorption-filtration technology treatment of produced water for low-permeability reservoirs

N.N. Gafarov
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25689/NP.2025.2.191-199

Abstract


During the development of hard-to-recover oil reserves the quality of water injected into oil reservoirs and promoting rims often does not correspond to the porosity and permeability of the developed reservoirs.
The purpose of research is to determine the possibility of obtaining water of the required quality for low-permeable reservoirs in the process of water treatment by sorption-filtration method.
The article shows the normative requirements and peculiarities of water preparation technology for injection into productive formations, presents the results of pilot tests in field conditions, and suggests ways to improve the quality of purification of produced water using granulated filtration materials.
The obtained results have important practical application and will allow to obtain water of high degree of purification from oil and mechanical impurities for its further use in the system of reservoir pressure maintenance, including for low-permeable reservoirs of traditional oil fields.

Key words:

hard-to-recover reserves, low-permeable reservoirs, produced water, treatment, deep purification, filtration material, sorption-filtration unit

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Authors

N.N. Gafarov, senior researcher, TatNIPIneft Institute of PJSC Tatneft
186a, Sovetskaya Str., Almetyevsk, 423462, Russian Federation
E-mail: GafarovNilN@tatnipi.ru

For citation:

N.N. Gafarov Primenenie sorbtsionno-filtratsionnoy tekhnologii podgotovki poputno dobyvaemykh vod dlya nizkopronitsaemykh kollektorov [Application of sorption-filtration technology treatment of produced water for low-permeability reservoirs]. Neftyanaya Provintsiya, No. 2(42), 2025. pp. 191-199. DOI https://doi.org/10.25689/NP.2025.2.191-199. EDN ZGAJWC (in Russian)

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