Wells – Processes – Placing fluid into the formation
Patent
1976-07-07
1977-06-28
Novosad, Stephen J.
Wells
Processes
Placing fluid into the formation
166278, 166294, 166299, 166308, E21B 4304, E21B 4326, E21B 4327
Patent
active
040319598
ABSTRACT:
In the disclosed method, an aqueous solution of alkaline earth metal hydroxides and a salt of an alkaline earth metal is injected down a well bore and into a hydrocarbon reservoir in volume quantities sufficient to fill the pore spaces of said reservoir to some distance from the well bore. The concentration of the alkaline earth metal cations is greater than 10,000 ppm and the pH of the aqueous solution is greater than 10. The solution is forced under pressure out into the subterranean reservoir for a time period which is insufficient to consolidate sand but which is sufficient to permanently alter the properties of indigenous, intergranular clay sized particles and thereby achieve desirable permeability effects in certain fluid sensitive reservoirs. After a sufficient time period has elapsed, the well head pressure is released thereby allowing the solution to flow back into the well bore. Hydrocarbon productivity from water sensitive and low-permeable ("tight") reservoirs is improved by this method of permanently altering intergranular clays to prevent permeability reductions caused by clay migration or clay expansion.
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Novosad Stephen J.
Permeator Corporation
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