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    CO2 Huff N' Puff What Is It?: How Does It Work?

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    The CO2 Huff 'n' Puff process involves injecting carbon dioxide into an oil well, allowing it to interact with the reservoir fluids (the "huff"), then producing the well (the "puff"). During huffing, CO2 reduces oil viscosity, provides a gas drive, and lowers interfacial tension to improve oil recovery. Typical candidates are pressure-depleted reservoirs, with good past production and residual oil. A pilot test using 1 truckload of CO2 on an isolated thin zone can evaluate the potential for a full-scale Huff 'n' Puff using 200 mcf of CO2 per foot of net pay.

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    The CO2 Huff 'n' Puff process involves injecting carbon dioxide into an oil well, allowing it to interact with the reservoir fluids (the "huff"), then producing the well (the "puff"). During huffing, CO2 reduces oil viscosity, provides a gas drive, and lowers interfacial tension to improve oil recovery. Typical candidates are pressure-depleted reservoirs, with good past production and residual oil. A pilot test using 1 truckload of CO2 on an isolated thin zone can evaluate the potential for a full-scale Huff 'n' Puff using 200 mcf of CO2 per foot of net pay.

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    RECUPERACION MEJORADA DE PETROLEOS PESADOS CON DIOXIDO DE CARBONO

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    The CO2 Huff 'n' Puff process involves injecting carbon dioxide into an oil well, allowing it to interact with the reservoir fluids (the "huff"), then producing the well (the "puff"). During huffing, CO2 reduces oil viscosity, provides a gas drive, and lowers interfacial tension to improve oil recovery. Typical candidates are pressure-depleted reservoirs, with good past production and residual oil. A pilot test using 1 truckload of CO2 on an isolated thin zone can evaluate the potential for a full-scale Huff 'n' Puff using 200 mcf of CO2 per foot of net pay.

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    CO2

    HUFF N PUFF
    WHAT IS IT?
    The name is derived from the childrens story of the big bad wolf in The Three Little
    Pigs. It was first applied to cyclic steam injection. The CO2Huff n Puff is the injection
    of carbon dioxide into a producing oil well (huff), followed by a production period
    when the well is flowed back (puff). This process can be repeated as often as deemed
    necessary.

    HOW DOES IT WORK?


    Some or all of the following mechanisms aid in the stimulation of oil production by the
    CO2 Huff n Puff:
    Oil swelling, thereby reducing its viscosity and increasing its flow rate to the wellbore.
    Solution gas drive is imparted by the CO2from its dissolving in the oil.
    Increase in relative permeability to oil by decreasing the interfacial tension. CO2 will
    quickly saturate formation water and displace it from the near wellbore area. This
    typically results in lower water production in the Puff part of the treatment.
    Vaporization of light crude ends and recovery of same from produced CO2 gas.
    Entrapment of CO2 gas by gas hysteresisCO2 is trapped in the H&P zone preventing
    the H&P zone from being re-saturated by the oil coming from further out in the
    reservoir.

    WHAT IS A TYPICAL CO2 HUFF N PUFF


    CANDIDATE?
    The process is not lithology dependantit can be applied to either sandstones or
    carbonates.
    It is most successful when pumped into pressure depleted reservoirs. Average
    CO2 utilization in a 65 well test in an Applachian reservoir with about 100 psi BHP
    was .97 mscf/bbl. of incremental oil.
    Wells in faulted or lenticular reservoirs where inter-well communication often does not
    occur are good candidates.

    A well that has been a good primary producer, that still has a high residual oil
    saturation, but may be pressure depleted.
    We suggest selecting a well that has a thin (less than 20thick) zone that can be isolated
    mechanically and perform a pilot test with 1 truckload (about 20 tons) of CO2. If the
    pilot test is a technical and/or economic success, then a full scale Huff n Puff should be
    considered using 200 mcf (about 12 tons) per foot of net pay.

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