Solvent flooding with a horizontal injection well and drive flui

Wells – Processes – Distinct – separate injection and producing wells

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166 50, 1663051, E21B 4322

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047949872

ABSTRACT:
The invention is a method for recovering residual hydrocarbons from a reservoir which has been previously swept by gas. The invention steps comprise drilling and completing at least one horizontal injection well relatively near the top of the reservoir and relatively near a substantially vertically oriented boundary of the reservoir, drilling and completing at least one second injection well between the horizontal injection well and the vertical boundary of the reservoir, injecting a miscible solvent through the horizontal injection well to create a curtain of solvent falling through the previously gas swept reservoir, and injecting a drive fluid into the reservoir through the second injection well to drive the curtain of falling solvent horizontally through the reservoir. A production well is employed to produce hydrocarbons and other fluids that have been banked in front of the horizontally driven falling solvent curtain.

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