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The main objective of this paper is show the design, implementation and results of a nitrogen + steam pilot implemented in a Colombian heavy oil reservoir. Given that the answer to the cyclic steam injection has declined significantly in some wells of the interest field due to the high number of cycles, a pilot project to assess the feasibility of injecting nitrogen accompanied cyclic steam was raised. The determination of optimum volumes and injection scheme by numerical simulation was performed in a sector model. Eleven schemes of steam plus nitrogen injection were evaluated. In all schemes, it was tested remained constant volume of injected steam, while the volume of nitrogen varied according to the scheme (pre-injection, post -injection, co-injection or a combination of the above). In all cases, it assumed the injection of nitrogen according to real drive capacity 1200 m3/hour (1017072 ft3/day).

The best case corresponds to start injecting only one day with nitrogen, followed by five days of co-injection and ending with a single nitrogen day. Under this scheme an incremental production of 5642 barrels of oil a trial period of six months, with average oil production of 53 BOPD in the same period and maximum rate of 142 BOPD. According to the simulation results, it was decided to implement the pilot steam + nitrogen injection, following the best injection scheme given above; that is, a day of pre-injection (nitrogen only), five days of co-injection (steam + nitrogen) and one day post-injection (nitrogen only). The results of the pilot show that oil production has increased compared to previous cycles, reaching similar results to the numerical simulation forecast. A methodology to implement steam injection enhanced with nitrogen is proposal in this paper, which can be applied in any field of heavy crude scheme developed under cyclic steam stimulation.

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Cyclic Steam Stimulation Enhanced with Nitrogen
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