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Steam Injection in Petroleum Engineering

Steam injection is a thermal recovery method where steam is continuously injected into an oil reservoir to reduce the viscosity of heavy oil and push it towards production wells. The steam forms a zone that slowly heats the oil. Key advantages are reducing residual oil left behind and increasing mobility through viscosity reduction. Disadvantages include potential steam override into adjacent formations and reduced effectiveness at deep reservoirs where steam quality decreases. The process works best for reservoirs with thick, permeable formations containing heavy, viscous oil located near existing pressure levels.

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Steam Injection in Petroleum Engineering

Steam injection is a thermal recovery method where steam is continuously injected into an oil reservoir to reduce the viscosity of heavy oil and push it towards production wells. The steam forms a zone that slowly heats the oil. Key advantages are reducing residual oil left behind and increasing mobility through viscosity reduction. Disadvantages include potential steam override into adjacent formations and reduced effectiveness at deep reservoirs where steam quality decreases. The process works best for reservoirs with thick, permeable formations containing heavy, viscous oil located near existing pressure levels.

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STEAM INJECTION

PRESENTED BY
MANOSHJYOTI DAS
RANJAN PROTIM NEOG
PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
5TH SEMESTER
Mechanism

 Steam flooding is a pattern drive, similar to water


flooding, steam is injected continuously with a
certain quality (80% steam and 20% water) to the
reservoir having shallow depth which is preferred.
 Itforms a steam zone which advances slowly in the
reservoir heating the oil and reducing its viscosity.
STEAM INJECTION PROCESS
 steam is injected into the oil reservoir with good
quality.
 Once steam reacts with oil and reduces its viscosity,
by creating an oil bank and in addition to
continuous steam injected oil is pushed towards the
producer.
 Wettability
is changed from oil to water wet due to
the reduction of oil viscosity.
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF
STEAM INJECTION

ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
 Reduces Sor (remaining oil in  Steam override to the
adjacent formation due to
the reservoir). thin reservoir net pay.
 Reduces oil viscosity resulting in  Less effectiveness at deep
mobility ratio reduction and reservoir due to reduction of
steam quality.
wettability change.
 Extra dehydration facility is
 Good performance due to needed because when
continuous steam injection. steam cools in the well it turns
into water which mixes with
 High RF. oil.
Conditions to be Applied

 Low API (<22 Degree API).


 Viscous oil (more than 100 cp).
 Thick net pay (more than 10 m) to avoid heat losses
to the adjacent formations.
 Perforation has to be away from OWC to avoid
steam condensation.
 Reasonable for current reservoir pressure.
 High reservoir permeability to support steam traveling
inside the reservoir.
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