Kuwait Oil Company

 

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KOC is first in succeeding to monitor reservoir dynamics related to fractures activated by water flooding. This technology will now be applied full scale in a Kuwait reservoir.

Research program to evaluate the formation permeability reduction due to asphaltene deposition during flow. This will allow KOC assets to produce the barrels of oil that are currently not being produced due to asphaltene deposition in bore holes.

KOC assets plan to build Integrated Asset Models (IAMops) for field operational optimization purposes. The main goal of this project is to deliver Integrated Asset Models for KOC assets to optimize production under current facility constraints in a most effective and timely manner. One IAMops model is required for each GC. These models will be built and operated separately. In the future, they may be combined into a single model, if necessary.

Improve our understanding of reservoir performance by providing continuous data and the ability to change downhole dynamics without well intervention. Intelligent Well projects are cost effective to KOC, as interventions require operations time, cost and lost production. "Real time" reservoir monitoring provides high quality, instantaneous data to evaluate well and reservoir production performance.

The intent of the technology is to direct underground water from Zubair aquifer into Minagish Oolite zone and have a fully control of the dump flood injection process.

Technology enables the operator to remotely monitor and control downhole dump flood injection without physical intervention to improve the well sweep efficiency.

There is need in KOC to evaluate new EOR methods and how they might best match our reservoirs’ properties. A small increment in the ultimate oil recovery will result in millions of barrels of oil reserves. The study will screen all methods of EOR processes, such as miscible and immiscible gas flooding, polymer and other chemical enhancements, thermal and in-situ combustion methods. The aim of the study is to appraise how the various EOR technologies could be applied to our major reservoirs and estimate recovery factor improvements. The EOR options will be considered individually, and critical success factors for each will also be considered.

Successfully implemented a new innovative H2S Scavenger chemical product in one of the wells in a Kuwait reservoir. Although the field trial was designed to treat only the production fluids from one well, the new product was able to reduce H2S content at the GC Test Separator from 6000 ppm to ±500 ppm, representing a 92% reduction in H2S content.