Visual Display of Reservoir Parameters

Affecting Enhanced Oil Recovery

DOE Contract DE-AC22-93BC14892

Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan

Digital Petrophysics, Inc., Bakersfield, California




Evaluation of gas and oil properties for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) involves a high degree of risk especially when the fields are old and well past their prime. The purpose of this project is to provide the small-to-medium size field operators with the tools necessary to do an EOR evaluation of the same quality and sophistication that only large international oil companies have been able to afford to date. This approach utilizes readily available, affordable computer software and analytical services.

This project will provide a detailed example, based on a field trial, of how to evaluate a field for EOR operations utilizing data typically available in a field which has undergone primary development.