Modeling Unconventional Recovery of Next Generation (Extreme Heavy Oil) Deep Tar-Mat Reservoir

Al-Bazzaz, Waleed

doi:10.2118/172863-ms

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“…Among these constituents, asphaltene is considered to be the most polarizable component with the highest molecular weight and most complex structure. Several investigations have shown that asphaltenes are dispersed in crude oil by resin molecules as peptizing agents [2][3][4][5]. Asphaltene is a complex mixture of mainly aromatic rings attached to hydrocarbon chains and heteroatoms such as nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur as well as metals.…”

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“…Accordingly, asphaltenes are commonly defined as solubility class of crude oil components. Asphaltenes are soluble in aromatics such as toluene and xylene, while insoluble in normal alkanes such as n-pentane and nheptane [5,7,8]. The stability of asphaltene in crude oil may be disrupted due to changes in temperature, pressure, composition and surface characteristics of rock/fluid interface [9][10][11].…”

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Visualization of asphaltene precipitation and deposition in a uniformly patterned glass micromodel

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Riazi

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Visualization of asphaltene precipitation and deposition in a uniformly patterned glass micromodel

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Artificial Intelligence Recovery Modeling of <5 API Unconventional Next-Generation Heavy Oil Using CHNSO Technology

Adel

Abdullah

Al-Kanderi

et al. 2016

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Extreme heavy oil <5 °API is considered a type of unconventional tight oil, which will require a challenging petroleum production system for future new-generation extreme heavy oil or bitumen carbonate reserves. This oil is abundant in great amounts around the globe, yet is extremely difficult to produce due to its solid-like physical state locked deep underground. The world strategy eventually will shift focus to this type of oil since conventional and other less-quantitative-difficult reservoirs are continuously depleting. The interest of this study is directed towards a specific type of unconventional oil, which is available in tight carbonate reservoirs. Extreme heavy oil <5 °API exists in large quantities in Kuwaiti fields. This study presents a novel heavy oil classification especially for <5 °API crude oil types as well as their potential recoveries. All recoveries considered for this study are bench-scale laboratory physical experiments with toluene, de-ionized water and water-aided surfactants augmented with applied field thermal 25 °C, 135 °C, 225 °C and 315 °C heat treatments. The main objective for this research is to model five signature atoms available in almost all heavy crude oils: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur, and oxygen (CHNSO). These CHNSO fingerprints determine qualitatively and quantitatively the potential amount and quality of future extreme heavy crude oil recovery. An Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) neural network algorithm is developed for all possible conjecture atoms. A Multiple Layer Forward Feed (MLFF) learning system is designed, trained and applied for developing the A.I. neural network. Forty-one recovery models are manifested in this study, clustered in possible atom conjecture operational base-function domains, which are unary (one atom), binary (two atom), ternary (three atom), quaternary (four atom) and quinary (five atom) approach models. The main technological motivation for CHNSO research is finding the optimized conventional EOR recovery efficiency factor that will extract <5 °API oil. The model predicts the recovery potential factor in a classic, optimum and conventional economic scenario, considering the unconventional environmental impact, crude oil subsurface-mobility issues and technology limitations used as current economic challenges. The general summary of results suggest that CHNSO models are useful in better understanding and better predicting <5 °API oil recoveries. The three-atom nitrogen-sulfur-oxygen (NSO) ternary conjecture model has a significant impact regarding heavy crude oils, maximizing recovery in general, and extreme heavy oil potential recovery in particular, in regards to the difficult mobility of this type of crude oil.

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Modeling Unconventional Recovery of Next Generation (Extreme Heavy Oil) Deep Tar-Mat Reservoir

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Visualization of asphaltene precipitation and deposition in a uniformly patterned glass micromodel

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Modeling Unconventional Recovery of Next Generation (Extreme Heavy Oil) Deep Tar-Mat Reservoir

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