May 24, 2012


Description

Light-oil air injection is a well-developed technology that has broad applications in deeper, hotter reservoirs that are good gas-injection candidates. Modern air injection technology has been developing for over 30 years and has a record of decades of safe operation. The technique is practiced where the reservoir temperature is at least 75°C and gravity override can be controlled either with low-permeability or gravity stability. As in any gas injection project, it is best to operate with high reservoir pressure so as to maximize solubility of flue gas in the oil.

This is one of the conditions needed to make air or rich-air injection a practical process for heavy oil recovery. The purpose of heavy-oil in-situ combustion is to reduce the oil’s viscosity by heating the oil. However, an oil’s viscosity can be reduced by a factor of ten when gas dissolves in the oil at high-reservoir pressure. This occurs ahead of the heated zone and stops gas override that can caused early oxygen breakthrough in old, shallow, in- situ combustion projects. Performance of deep, in-situ combustion projects can also be improved when water is coinjected with the air because steam generates during combustion the reservoir and expands the low viscosity region. Thus, high-pressure in-situ combustion could have wide application for recovery of deeper or offshore heavy oils.


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Speaker Myron Kuhlman


MK Tech Solutions, Inc


Myron Kuhlman has 45 years of experience in the oil and chemical industry. He participated and/or led the technical work for more than 80 EOR projects, including virtually every EOR technology known. He has also helped remediation at 20 Superfund sites and helped to …


MK Tech Solutions, Inc



Myron Kuhlman has 45 years of experience in the oil and chemical industry. He participated and/or led the technical work for more than 80 EOR projects, including virtually every EOR technology known. He has also helped remediation at 20 Superfund sites and helped to develop duPont Stainmaster, high performance explosives and coal pyrolysis.



Kuhlman’s experience includes air injection, foamy oil production, steam floods and water floods, heavy oil recovery, in-situ upgrading of heavy oils, CO2 floods, nitrogen floods, gas reinjection projects, surfactant  and foam technologies, oil shale, enhanced coal bed methane and environmental remediation. Kuhlman has published numerous articles, holds a number of patents and has a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois, Illinois, USA.



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Organizer

Charles Wagner


Date and Time

Thu, May 24, 2012

11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
(GMT-0500) US/Central

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Location

Courtyard on St James

1885 Saint James Pl
Houston, Texas 77056
USA