“…Injection of steam into a non-or low-dipping reservoir with nonzero vertical permeability will result in steam override and poor vertical sweep. A review of steamflood field projects (Tham et al, 1991) identifies gravity segregation and reservoir heterogeneities as problems that limit the efficient application of steamflooding. An example of such a case is the stemndrive in the Mecca lease of Kern River (CA) field (Dilgren et al, 1980;Patzek and Koinis, 1988).…”
The effect of steam injection rate on foaming behavior is shown in this figure. The data suggest that both the onset "offoaming and the maximum pressure drop are influenced by rate and that a maximum rate is required (perhaps to overcome heat losses
“…Injection of steam into a non-or low-dipping reservoir with nonzero vertical permeability will result in steam override and poor vertical sweep. A review of steamflood field projects (Tham et al, 1991) identifies gravity segregation and reservoir heterogeneities as problems that limit the efficient application of steamflooding. An example of such a case is the stemndrive in the Mecca lease of Kern River (CA) field (Dilgren et al, 1980;Patzek and Koinis, 1988).…”
The effect of steam injection rate on foaming behavior is shown in this figure. The data suggest that both the onset "offoaming and the maximum pressure drop are influenced by rate and that a maximum rate is required (perhaps to overcome heat losses
“…The lackluster performance of some of these projects was attributed to several factors. These factors were identified as lack of adequate reservoir characterization, inaccurate mathematical reservoir models as well as technical and management constraints (Tham and Dauben, 1991).…”
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