| Issue 38, November 2011 |
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| RECOVERY ENHANCEMENT VIA WATER-ALTERNATING-GAS TECHNOLOGY |
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One of the most promising fields of RITEK's activity is design of recovery enhancement
technologies. To this end the company has elaborated a production enhancement
method called WAG treatment, which currently undergoes pilot testing. WAG technology
is a profound modernization of invention made by famous oil-well expert I. N.
Strizhov back in 1950. He suggested that production of oil fields can be enhanced
by highly compressed gas mixed with oil. Theoretically, it should guarantee 100%
displacement. The insufficiency of the suggested method is that it has low coverage
factor with poor efficiency of such formation treatment. The leading specialists
of RITEK managed to handle the problem, which is proved by the patents of Russian
Federation № 2142045 and № 2238389. Their decision retains normal coverage factor
corresponding to usual water flooding and raises recovery from 15-25% to 30-50%.
When WAG technology is applied, the oil is displaced by frontal gas rim of maximal
coverage, after which the water is pumped. In this case the gas provides for high
displacement rate, while the water helps to keep a high level of displacement
coverage.

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