Come join us for the first ever Midcontinent Oil & Gas Expo and Prospect Fair at the Highland Hotel and Convention Center on Tuesday September 12, 2006 in Great Bend, Kansas. Admission is free to the public. There will be a variety of exhibits, including petroleum industry service company exhibits, outside exhibits, and prospects on display from 9:00am to 5:00pm. There will also be technology presentations going on throughout the day. Buckeye Supply is sponsoring a free BBQ lunch at the Kansas Oil & Gas Museum from 11:00am - 1:00pm. This event will provide an opportunity to interact with a large number of service companies and operators in a single setting and is being held in conjunction with the annual API golf tournament that is scheduled for the next day, September 13, 2006.
The objective of this event is to bring together operators and service companies to promote and enhance the transfer of technology, as well as providing a venue for operators to show prospects to potential investors. There are still a few exhibit spaces and sponsorships available, so if you are interested and not signed up, please contact our office.
There will be a door prize drawing for a free laptop computer. Tickets will be provided at the door for attendees who do not already have one. The winner will be drawn at 4:45pm on September 12th. You need not be present to win.
For hotel accommodations, there will be a room block available at the Highland Hotel, 3017 West 10th Street in Great Bend until August 28th at a rate of $60 per night. You may call the Highland Hotel and Convention Center toll free at 866-212-7122. (more information)
In 2005 the Tertiary Oil Recovery Project (TORP) received funding from the Stripper Well Consortium to conduct field tests using a different technique associated with conventional gel polymer treatments in the Arbuckle. The field tests are an extension of gelled polymer technology as currently practiced. Working cooperatively with Vess Oil Corp., a three well field test has been conducted to determine if the water production rate following treatment of a well using a gelled polymer system can be reduced by a process in which the gel that has formed insitu is dehydrated following placement by slow injection of oil.
Research in a Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored project at the University of Kansas revealed a potential improvement in the gelled polymer treatment process. It was shown in laboratory experiments that it is possible to reduce the permeability to water substantially more than the permeability to oil by dehydrating the gel after placement in porous rock.
Oil flow channels formed by the dehydration process exhibit preferential permeability to oil over water because of the large permeability reduction when water displaces the oil from these channels leaving a residual oil saturation with lowIt was shown in laboratory experiments that it is possible to reduce the permeability to water substantially more than the permeability to oil by dehydrating the gel after placement in porous rock.
Oil flow channels formed by the dehydration process exhibit preferential permeability to oil over water because of the large permeability reduction when water displaces the oil from these channels leaving a residual oil saturation with low permeability to water. This mechanism, termed disproportionate permeability reduction, reduces water permeability by at least an order of magnitude in laboratory tests. It is believed that reducing the permeability of these flow channels to water will enhance displacement of oil from other regions of the reservoir containing mobile oil as water flows from the aquifer to the wellbore under the prevailing pressure gradient. Three results are anticipated: 1) substantial reduction of water production rates after treatment, 2) increased incremental oil production caused by creation of new displacement paths for the water moving to the wellbore and 3) longer interval between gel treatments because the dehydrated gel is stronger than the original gel because the polymer concentration increases in the gel that is dehydrated.
The third well treated with process has just been recently completed. Data and results from these treatments are still being gathered and analyzed. We will disseminate results from these field tests when they become available. Additional details concerning these treatments will be presented at the annual KIOGA meeting on August 21st.
A two well field test was recently awarded funding by the Stripper Well Consortium to determine if the gelled polymer technology that has been applied successfully in Arbuckle wells in central Kansas can be extended to Mississippian reservoirs.
The Mississippian reservoirs in Kansas are a major source of production, accounting for about 18% (6.13 million barrels in 2004) of the total annual production. Cumulative production from Mississippian reservoirs in Kansas exceeds 1 billion barrels. Some of the Mississippian reservoirs are heterogeneous and produce under a strong water drive. High water cuts and low recovery factors are typical of these reservoirs. The perceived risk of trying the new technology used successfully in the Arbuckle formation has prevented the evaluation of the new gelled polymer technology in Mississippian reservoirs.
The field test will be conducted in the Schaben Field in Central Kansas. The field, studied in a DOE Class 2 demonstration project in 1994-1997, has regions containing high mobile oil saturations that may be potentially recoverable if water production can be reduced and the water influx diverted to matrix rock to displace mobile oil. The disproportionate permeability reduction technique discussed above will be incorporated in these treatments. Contracts are currently being procured and field work is anticipated to begin late this summer. The field test is a cooperative field demonstration project involving TORP, American Warrior and Pickrell Drilling Co.
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