Field Test of Electrical Heating With Horizontal And Vertical Wells

McGee, B.C.W.; Vermeulen, F.E.; Yu, Li

doi:10.2118/99-03-04

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“…The mechanism of electrical heating generally is divided into two types, electrical heating for vertical well and horizontal well using a thermal process either to heat steam chamber or direct heating into the near-wellbore of vertical well and horizontal well [13]- [16]. Electrical heating is also using the SAGD process heating the formation by gravity drainage [17], [18].…”

Section: Mechanisme Of Electrical Heatingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Electrical Heating for Heavy Oil: Past, Current, and Future Prospect

Hasibuan¹,

Regina²,

Wahyu³

et al. 2020

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This paper presents a review of the electrical heating method for heavy oil recovery based on past, current, and future prospects of electrical heating. Heavy oil is one of the potential crude oil used as a link to reduce the crisis of light oil used today. The obstacle of heavy oil is a high viscosity and density in which thermal injection is a method for heavy oil recovery, but it results in economic and environmental issues. Electrical heating is one of the thermal methods by transferring heat into the reservoir. The basic process of electrical heating is to increase the mobility of the oil. Because the temperature rises, it can reduce oil viscosity and makes it easier for heavy oil to flow. The past and current developments have been carried out to fill up the gap of electrical heating projects. The future prospects must meet energy efficiency, and the excessive heat will damage formation that must be tackled in the future prospect. the works adopt several electrical heating projects and applications in the world where the works give a brief future prospect of electrical heating.

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Section: Mechanisme Of Electrical Heatingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Electrical Heating for Heavy Oil: Past, Current, and Future Prospect

Hasibuan¹,

Regina²,

Wahyu³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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“…The mechanism of electrical heating is generally divided into two types, electrical heating for vertical well and horizontal well using a thermal process either to heat steam chamber or direct heating into the near-wellbore of the vertical well and horizontal well (Hassanzadeh et al, 2016;B C W McGee et al, 1999;T N Nasr et al, 2000;Yao et al, 2019). Electrical heating also applied the SAGD process heating the formation by gravity drainage (Yongbin et al, 2017;Yuan et al, 2004).…”

Section: Electrical Heating Mechanismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Prospect of Electrical Enhanced Oil Recovery for Heavy Oil: A Review

Afdhol

Erfando

Hidayat

et al. 2020

J. earth energy eng.

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This paper presents a review of electrical heating for the recovery of heavy oil which the work adopts methods used in the past and the prospects for crude oil recovery in the future. Heavy oil is one of the crude oils with API more than 22 which has the potential to overcome the current light oil crisis. However, high viscosity and density are challenges in heavy oil recovery. The method is often used to overcome these challenges by using thermal injection methods, but this method results in economic and environmental issues. The electrical heating method could be a solution to replace conventional thermal methods in which the methodology of electrical heating is to transfer heat into the reservoir due to increasing oil mobility. Because the temperature rises, it could help to reduce oil viscosity, then heavy oil will flow easily. The applications of electrical heating have been adopted in this paper where the prospects of electrical heating are carried out to be useful as guidelines of electrical heating. The challenge of electrical heating is the excessive heat will damage the formation that must be addressed in the prospect of electrical heating which must meet energy efficiency. The use of Artificial intelligence becomes a new technology to overcome problems that are often found in conventional thermal methods where this method could avoid steam breakthrough and excessive heat. Therefore, it becomes more efficient and could reduce costs.

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“…Numerous field tests of electrical heating have been reported in the literature (2)(3)(4)(5)(6) . The results are consistent: significant stimulated production rates were attained, but long-term heating could not be achieved due to shortcomings in operational strategies and failures in the oil production system.…”

Section: Electrical Stimulation Of Heavy Oil Wellsmentioning

confidence: 99%