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Solvent Stimulation Tests in Two California Oilfields.


PB237849

Publication Date 1974
Personal Author Lechtenberg, H. J.; Gates, G. L.; Caraway, W. H.; Baptist, O. C.
Page Count 28
Abstract Solvent injection can be a means of increasing oil production from low-gravity oil fields. California field tests results show increased oil production by using cyclic solvent injection process. The increase in oil production indicates that the process can be economically successful.
Keywords
  • Reservoir engineering
  • Oil recovery
  • Oil well drives
  • Secondary injection
  • Oil reservoirs
  • Organic solvents
  • Aromatic compounds
  • California
  • Field tests
  • Low gravity crude oil
  • Solvent injection
  • Secondary oil recovery
  • Viscous crude oil
  • Tar zone
Source Agency
  • Bureau of Mines
NTIS Subject Category
  • 48A - Mineral Industries
  • 97A - Reserves
Corporate Authors Bureau of Mines, San Francisco, Calif. San Francisco Energy Research Lab.
Document Type Technical Report
Title Note Rept. of investigations.
NTIS Issue Number 197504
Solvent Stimulation Tests in Two California Oilfields.
Solvent Stimulation Tests in Two California Oilfields.
PB237849

  • Reservoir engineering
  • Oil recovery
  • Oil well drives
  • Secondary injection
  • Oil reservoirs
  • Organic solvents
  • Aromatic compounds
  • California
  • Field tests
  • Low gravity crude oil
  • Solvent injection
  • Secondary oil recovery
  • Viscous crude oil
  • Tar zone
  • Bureau of Mines
  • 48A - Mineral Industries
  • 97A - Reserves
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