Evaluation of cyclic steam stimulation : case study

Abstract

Enhanced oil Recovery methods had been used around the world for enhancing oil production and getting higher recovery factor from oil reserves. Cyclic Steam Stimulation is one of the most wide used methods which means injection of high temperature steam into the production well, then shut in the well for soaking phase, then the same well will be used as production well. The most effective parameters in cyclic steam stimulation applications are injection parameters, soaking time and production period. Injection parameter – Steam quality and Steam temperature – had been studied versus base case In DQ field , in two different cases versus base case , results shown that case -1 with total consumed 2947.32 BBL fuel , with more economic expenses is the optimum case to get high productivity and reduce oil consumption compared with the base case and case-2, which consumed 2267.17 , 3400.76 BBL fuel