By-Aashutosh Gautam(01)

Abhilasha Singh(02)
Aditi jayaraj(03)
Aditya B. Bhatnagar(04)
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Animesh Chaudhury(14)
Reservoir Drive Mechanism

What is Reservoir drives?

Types of reservoir drives
Dissolved gas drive
Gas cap drive

Reservoir Drive Mechanism

What causes hydrocarbons in the

reservoir to move to the wellbore ?
Which forces should be supported or
pushed back ?
Where and how should secondary
recovery strategies be implemented?

Reservoir Drive Mechanism

Pressure on the fluids in a reservoir rock

causes the fluids to flow through the
pores into the well.
This energy that drives the oil and gas is
called the reservoir drive or reservoir
energy.
This energy comes from fluid
expansion,rock expansion and gravity.

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Dissolved Gas drive

Gas Cap Drive
Water Drive
Gravity Drainage
Combination Drive

Reservoir Drive Mechanism

Also known as solution-gas or depletion

drive.
Natural gas is dissolved in oil in reservoir
under high pressure
When well is drilled,pressure decreses
Gas bubble out of the oil forcing oil to
move through the rock into the well

Reservoir Drive Mechanism

The recovery efficiency is 5 to 30%.

Natural gas is dissolved at subsurface
pressure in the reservoir.
When oil is produced from the reservoir,
reservoir pressure decreases and
dissolved gas bubbles out.
The gas expands in the pore spaces and
pushes the reservoir oil through the pore
to a production well.

Reservoir Drive Mechanism

During the producing life of a dissolved

gas pool a time comes when the reservoir
pressure is reduced to the saturation
pressure and free gas comes out
The free gas continues to accumulate at
the top of the reservoir and become a
secondary free gas cap.
As the pressure gradient decreases the
free gas comes out continuously and
forms a gas expansion pool.
Reservoir Drive Mechanism

As secondary gas cap is formed it

develops a high gas oil ratio
The reservoir energy may be renewed by
injecting gas under pressure into the
reservoir through neighboring intake
wells
The process of maintaining the reservoir
pressure near its original height through
the injection of free gas into the reservoir
is called pressure maintenance or
repressuring
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The pressure is also maintained through

the injection of water under pressure is
called water flooding

The production mechanics that govern oil

production from a natural Dissolved-gas
drive and from an artificial or
repressurred gas drive are similar

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Reservoir pressure
Surface gas-oil ratio
Water production
Well behavior
Expected oil recovery

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