The document describes a case study of the Patos-Marinza Heavy Oil Field in Albania. It discusses the field's discovery and history of primary production. It also describes the implementation of Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS) technology to increase recovery from the viscous oil reservoir. The document considers using beam pumps as an artificial lift method for one of the wells but determines it is high risk due to failure in similar conditions and no stable production based on inflow performance and offset production curves.
The document describes a case study of the Patos-Marinza Heavy Oil Field in Albania. It discusses the field's discovery and history of primary production. It also describes the implementation of Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS) technology to increase recovery from the viscous oil reservoir. The document considers using beam pumps as an artificial lift method for one of the wells but determines it is high risk due to failure in similar conditions and no stable production based on inflow performance and offset production curves.
The document describes a case study of the Patos-Marinza Heavy Oil Field in Albania. It discusses the field's discovery and history of primary production. It also describes the implementation of Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS) technology to increase recovery from the viscous oil reservoir. The document considers using beam pumps as an artificial lift method for one of the wells but determines it is high risk due to failure in similar conditions and no stable production based on inflow performance and offset production curves.
The document describes a case study of the Patos-Marinza Heavy Oil Field in Albania. It discusses the field's discovery and history of primary production. It also describes the implementation of Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS) technology to increase recovery from the viscous oil reservoir. The document considers using beam pumps as an artificial lift method for one of the wells but determines it is high risk due to failure in similar conditions and no stable production based on inflow performance and offset production curves.
▪ The Patos-Marinza Heavy Oil Field, located in southern Albania, was
discovered in 1928. The reservoir, with oil specific gravity ranging from 0.86 to 1.05 (3 to 33 o API), contains one of the largest onshore oil resources in continental Europe. Case study
▪ Primary production commenced in the 1930s and reached a peak rate of
over 3,300 m3 /d in the late 1950s. By June 2004, over 2,400 wells had been drilled, at an average spacing of about 3.6 hectares , and cumulative oil production amounted to about 19 million m3 . However, the expected ultimate oil recovery by primary recovery was only about 6% of the original-oil-in-place (‘OOIP’). ▪ As of mid 2004, under new operatorship, an aggressive campaign of well interventions and application of CHOP technology has been implemented Case study
▪ Cold heavy oil production with sand (CHOPS) involves the deliberate initiation of sand influx during the completion procedure, maintenance of sand influx during the productive life of the well, and implementation of methods to separate the sand from the oil for disposal. No sand exclusion devices (screens, liners, gravel packs, etc.) are used. The sand is produced along with oil, water, and gas and separated from the oil before upgrading to a synthetic crude. Case study
When a new well is completed, initial sand
influx is large: 10 to 40% of the volume of the (gas-free) produced liquids and solids. Over a period of a few days to several months, the sand rate gradually decays toward a steady-state influx rate (0.5 to 10%), depending on oil viscosity. Case study
The oil production rate
increases to a maximum several months or more after placing the well on production and then slowly declines as reservoir- depletion effects begin to dominate. Case study
All CHOPS production is
accompanied by substantial gas production, and gas/oil ratio (GOR) values tend to remain relatively consistent over many years. Short-term sand influx rates and oil production rates fluctuate chaotically about the mean value. Case study
▪ Because there were no development programs in this field, the existing
data are very weak. For example there are no reservoir rock properties, and the reservoir fluids properties are not accurate. So there are some uncertainties in using these data. Also some required data like oil formation volume factor was estimated. But it was tried that the using data were close to real values. The used data in this study is presented in Table 2. These data are prepared from previous studies and some of them were calculated or estimated Case study
▪ there is no production in the well (MD-6). This is because of low reservoir
pressure and high oil specific gravity. Figure 2 is the representative of IPR and OPR curves for well MD-6 in natural flow conditions. It is clear that with these conditions, there is no stable intersection between two curves, so there is no oil production. As a result, some sort of artificial lift is needed. ▪ Beam (Rod) Pump Design The suggested Pump Plunger Size will be 1 3/4 in. or 1 1/2 in. based on fluid production of 200 bbl/d and 700 m net lift of fluid. The various effective plunger stroke and pumping speed is calculated. The relative design that can be applied for this well is tabulated in Table 3. With the above designs, the 200 bbl/d production rate and minimum of 900 m oil lifting can be gained. Also various sucker rods exists for this purpose that based on the torsion and tension parameters and also economic criteria, the best design can be presented. However it must be noted that this method of artificial lift has high risk for these well conditions. Because the previous studies show that this method of artificial lift has some failures against present conditions (especially in their valves) and some modification is necessary for using it. ▪ Finally, this method of artificial lift can not be used for the proposed conditions, because of no safe intersection point of IPR and OPR curves and also high risk and failure in using ESP in heavy crude recovery in other fields. Also it must be noted that ESP usually is used for
