Open AccessA study of steam injection in fractured media
Author(s) -
M.D.S. Dindoruk,
Khalid Aziz,
W.E. Brigham,
L.M. Castanier
Publication year - 1996
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/206627
Subject(s) - steam injection , petroleum engineering , water injection (oil production) , work (physics) , injection well , environmental science , waste management , geology , engineering , mechanical engineering
Steam injection is the most widely used thermal recovery technique for unfractured reservoirs containing heavy oil. There have been numerous studies on theoretical and experimental aspects of steam injection for such systems. Fractured reservoirs contain a large fraction of the world supply of oil, and field tests indicate that steam injection is feasible for such reservoirs. Unfortunately there has been little laboratory work done on steam injection in such systems. The experimental system in this work was designed to understand the mechanisms involved in the transfer of fluids and heat between matrix rocks and fractures under steam injection