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Mid Semester Examination-04.03.2020 - Questions
Mid Semester Examination-04.03.2020 - Questions
Ashish Ranjan 15
The relative amount of a particular phase present in the pore space is called permeability.
"in which tight microporosity is water saturated and water wet, while oil saturated macropores are oil
wet is called Spotted Wettability."
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Water is preferred for injection for pressure maintenance due to its favourable physico-chemical
characteristics .
"A Petroleum reservoir has formation pressur of 145 bar. The bubble point pressure of oil is 90 bar,
the reservoir will be Saturated."
Lower is the value of perforated interval hp the lower will be the penetration ratio and the higher the
critical rate.
The polymer process can be applied in secondary mode to improve the efficiency of water flood.
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In the reverse combustion flame front moves in the ___________________ direction as that of
injected well.
Thermal stability is defined as percentage viscosity not retained after long term aging in the
reservoir.
Which of the following process refers to the recovery of oil through the injection of fluids and energy
not normally present in the reservoir?
In _____________ both injection and production wells are injected with superheated steam.
The ratio of cross-sectional area contacted by displacing agent to total cross-sectional area is called
"At < 1800 ft, all reservoirs fail screening for either miscible or immiscible flooding with supercritical
CO2."
The total production from a well or field primary production and improved oil recovery that is justified
by economics is known as
Recent R & D studies indicate that sulphonated acrylamide copolymers can tolerate high bivalent
cations and temperature up to 120 deg. C.
"If polymer flooding is applied in the initial stages when ko is high , mobile So is high and kw low
benefit will be less."
Gas coning is difficult to avoid as gas saturations once formed may not be eliminated.
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Inectivity is measurement of polymer solution to flow through porous medium at different rate during
flow period.
CDG is a solution of colloid size polymer particles in oil crossed linked by ammonium citrate.
"Biopolymers are another class of polymers which are derived from wood, plants and bacteria."
What is the determining factor as to when a waterflood operation reaches its effectiveness?
"In Solution-gas drive oil reservoirs ,High oil bubblepoint pressure (pb) will give higher recovery."
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A change in permeability value is observed while determining permeabilty with gases at different
pressure is called Klinkerberg effect.
_____________ represents the relative effect of viscous forces and surface tension acting across
the interface between two immiscible liquids.
Low Salinity EOR has been found to be effective at maximum injection water salinity of 5000 ppm
TDS or less.
Which of the following is best short term method for improved oil recovery?
What are the reservoir prameters which are beneficial for steam injection?
"If polymer is more than one repeat, the polymer is called block polymer."
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Application of engineering techniques to produce more oil after primary production is known as
The viscosity of polymer solution as a Newtonian fluid measured at particular shear rate is known as
apparent viscosity.
"If Dissolved Oxygen and divalent can be minimised , the thermal stability of HPAM polymer can be
increased to 100 deg. C or even higher in various brine composition."
Horizontal Well will have high pressure drawdown and will exhibits minimum coning tendencies.
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The method that describes layers according to their relative position within the vertical rock column is
known as
Fraction of injection water going into each zone is proportional to permeability thickness.
In mixed wet rock Relative Permeabilty Curve Crossover Point is > 50% Sw.
Alkali flooding can be applied to oils whose API gravity ranges between
Water encroachment that moves in a water drive reservoir is called boundary water.
"In water drive reservoir , Highly viscous oil will result in water ""fingering"" through the reservoir and
bypassing oil which leads higher recovery."
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The ratio of volume of oil contacted by displacing agent to the volume of oil originally in place (OOIP)
is called
"In the early stages of development, reserves estimates are not restricted to the analogy and
volumetric calculations."
"Rapidity of coning will depend upon Viscosity of the moving fluid, as such gas has a greater
tendency to cone than does water."
Which of the following mechanism is involved in the oil recovery by hydrocarbon miscible flooding?
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Which of the following is true about liquid and rock expansion mechanism?
The low salinity EOR ( LoSal) benefits ranged from 20 to 25% OOIP.
The critical rate would correspond to the development of a unstable cone to an elevation just below
the bottom of the perforated interval in an oil-water system.
"When the dynamic (viscous) forces at the wellbore exceed gravitational forces, a cone will ultimately
break into the well. "
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The method consists of adding water soluble polymers to the water before it is injected into the
reservoir is called
Steam flooding is normally used in carbonate formation and also where water sensitive clays are
present.
"Polymer assisted chemical EOR is mainly IFT reduction, wettability change and solubilization."
Which technique utilizes heat to make more fluid recovery from heavy oil reservoir?
"If 300 cubic feet of rock contains many tiny pores and spaces which together have a volume 15
cubic feet, the porosity of rock is 20 percent."
"In Decline Curve Analysis, when the data plots convex upward, it is modelled with a hyperbolic
decline."
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"The method consists of injected steam to heat the reservoir, thus reducing the oil viscosity and
displace the oil is known as"
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