The Moonie onshore oil field discovered in 1961, was the first commercial oil discovery in Australia. The field was purchased by Bridgeport Energy Limited (BEL) from Santos in late 2015. An Australian first initiative by BEL is to enhance oil production from the field using tertiary recovery CO2 miscible flood to maximise field oil recovery. The process involves an evaluation of well injection strategies for a miscible displacement process using reservoir simulation modelling. In addition, the project jointly addresses community concerns regarding the rise in greenhouse gas emissions by sourcing 60000–120000 tonnes/annum of CO2 from a nearby power station and/or an ethanol plant. Justified by laboratory experiments and reservoir compositional simulations, BEL’s project timeline to implement a CO2-enhanced oil recovery (EOR) pilot could start from 2020 followed by a 2–3-year full field oil production acceleration project if additional CO2 can be sourced. Based on incremental recovery and operational consideration, an injection well in the southern end of the field surrounded by six existing producers has been selected as a pilot flood. Positive indicative economics are achieved by the efficient displacement with CO2 of 8000 scf/bbl of incremental oil. Full field dynamic modelling predicts a further 8% oil recovery factor by injecting 60 Bcf of CO2 over five years, which could store in excess of three million tonnes of CO2. For the pilot, more than 90% of the injected CO2 will remain in the Precipice sandstone reservoir. However, the efficiency and viability of a CO2-EOR project is subject to successful implementation of the miscibility modelling, logistics and injection strategy and uncertainty quantification. To propel the project into the execution phase a fast-multiphase reservoir simulator has been implemented to complete a probabilistic range of results in optimal time.
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