Secondary and Tertiary Oil Recovery Injection Facilities
Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and Miscible Gas Processing Facilities
You have invested valuable engineering hours and capital resources to investigate and develop a secondary or tertiary oil recovery program: The process likely promises a recovery of over 50% of the remaining residual oil (SOR). So when you are ready to take the laboratory study to the field level, you cannot afford to compromise the project implementation.
Fabrication Technologies, Inc. brings you the experience and insight to do it correctly. We have earned our reputation through the successful implementation of purpose-built Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) facilities throughout the oil producing world. Fab Tech’s expertise ensures that scale-up from the lab to the field meets your engineering specifications for exact chemical processing and fluid injection.
Fab Tech offers fully integrated design, build and commissioning services for all types of water and chemically augmented waterflood projects.
DETERMINING THE FACILITY YOU NEED
Fabrication Technologies’ project managers begin the design process with professional client presentations and interviews. We must thoroughly understand each project’s unique details from geographic location to the operating parameters dictated by your chemical process and recipe.
During this phase, we consider such details as:
- Operational scale – Is this a pilot or full-field facility?
- Design concept – Should the plant be expandable or portable?
- Construction style – Will the facility be modular or permanent?
- Current site infrastructure –
- What will the utility requirement be?
- Will source water require pre-treatment?
- What storage tanks are currently available for source water?
- What is the existing flow line and injection line scheme? Will it need modification?
- Help design and/or supply water reatment systems.
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DESIGNING YOUR EOR FACILITY
Together we develop practical design and operating specifications for your process and injection facility. Fab Tech’s designers then translate these specs and expectations into specific equipment lists, process flow diagrams and mechanical drawings.
We use this initial facility design package to adjust and finalize details prior to moving the project on to the fabrication stage.
During fabrication, your Fab Tech project manager writes operating and maintenance manuals along with customer specific documentation such as:
- Installation and Start-up Schedules
- Pre-qualification and Selection of Local General and Electrical Contractors
- Operator Training Syllabus
- Spare Parts Lists and Cataloging
- PLC Auto Data Acquisition and Database Management Plans
INSTALLING AND STARTING YOUR PLANT
Fabrication Technologies’ start-up specialists work hand-in-hand with your field staff to properly install and perform initial start-up of all the processing facilities and associated chemical handling and processing modules. This includes bulk storage equipment for soda ash, sodium hydroxide and liquid surfactants. Fab Tech can provide turnkey field installation or work alongside the construction teams of your choice. Either way, a professional pre-construction meeting between all trades assures a safe and expeditious installation.
COMMISSIONING YOUR FACILITIES AND TRAINING OPERATORS
Fab Tech’s EOR project managers possess decades of hands-on reservoir, chemical process, and field operating experience. We tap this unique knowledge bank and train your operators to understand the project from the underlying processes through the electro-mechanical systems that they will be controlling.
We know that if your operators understand the basic principles of the chemical EOR scheme, they will be more confident and better able to accurately communicate field reporting. Operator knowledge and ability greatly enhances injected quality control and assurance.
That is why Fabrication Technologies’ project managers teach more than just how to run the equipment during the facility commissioning phase. We train your operators how to relate laboratory QA/QC test results to the control of the chemical processes.
Three Phases of Oil Recovery
Oil recovery refers to the processes by which crude oil is extracted from the reservoir beneath the surface. Oil recovery can be categorized into three phases:
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- The natural pressure of the oil reservoir allows extraction, but only 5% to 10% of the oil leaves in this manner.
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- Injects pressurized gas or water into the oil reservoir, but still only gets the total to 30% to 40% extraction.
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- Injects specialized polymers to improve the extraction rate to between 50% to 75% of the total oil reservoir.
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