Title: Carbon%20Dioxide%20Flooding%20in%20Central%20Kansas%20Reservoirs
1Carbon DioxideFlooding in Central Kansas
Reservoirs
- G. Paul Willhite
- Tertiary Oil Recovery Project
Tertiary Oil Recovery Advisory Board October
19-20,2001
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3Minimum Miscibility Pressure
4Requirements for Carbon Dioxide Miscible Flooding
- Minimum miscibility pressure must be determined
for Kansas crude oils - Must be possible to re-pressure reservoir to
reach MMP during the displacement process - Carbon dioxide must be available at a price that
will make the process economic
Tertiary Oil Recovery Project
5Minimum Miscibility Pressure in Hall-Gurney LKC
Tertiary Oil Recovery Project
6Outline of Presentation
- The Central Kansas Initiative
- Field Demonstration Project Hall-Gurney Field
- The Carbon Dioxide Supply
- New Partner
- Expanded DOE Project
Tertiary Oil Recovery Project
7Outline of Presentation
- The Central Kansas Initiative
- Field Demonstration Project Hall-Gurney Field
- The Carbon Dioxide Supply
- New Partner
- Expanded DOE Project
Tertiary Oil Recovery Project
8Central Kansas Initiative Overall Objective
- Verify technical and economic viability of the
application of CO2 miscible flooding to Central
Kansas oil fields - Critical element Demonstrate sufficient field
performance(oil in the tank) to justify the
development of a carbon dioxide pipeline into
Central Kansas
Tertiary Oil Recovery Project
9Components of Carbon Dioxide Program
- Phase IConduct a feasibility study on Arbuckle
and Lansing Kansas City Reservoirs(KTEC Contract) - Phase II Select a site and design one or more
field pilot CO2 miscible floods(DOE Class Program
Revisited)
Tertiary Oil Recovery Project
10Components of Carbon Dioxide Program(Continued)
- Phase III Construct and operate the CO2
pilot(DOE Class Program Revisited) - Phase IV Evaluate technical and economic
performance of pilot(DOE Class Program Revisited) - Phase V Build a CO2 pipeline into Central
Kansas(Kinder Morgan)
Tertiary Oil Recovery Project
11Outline of Presentation
- The Central Kansas Initiative
- Field Demonstration Project Hall-Gurney Field
- The Carbon Dioxide Supply
- New Partner
- Expanded DOE Project
Tertiary Oil Recovery Project
12Field Demonstration of CO2 Miscible Flooding in
the L-KC, Central Kansas
March 7,2000
Class II Revisited DE-AC26-00BC15124
MV Energy LLC
13L-KC Recoveries in Hall-Gurney and Trapp
Cumulative Production Primary
Secondary Lansing-Kansas City (Per Section Basis)
gt 8 MBO/acre
6-8 MBO/acre
4-6 MBO/acre
2-4 MBO/acre
Kansas Geological Survey
14Project Economics
- Total Project 5.4 million
- 2.0M CO2 Purchase, transport, recycling
- 1.5M Research, Technology Transfer
- 1.1M Capital Costs (wells, etc.)
- 0.8M Operations (6 years)
- Funding
- 2.4M Kinder-Morgan CO2 Co. LP and Murfin
Drilling Company - 1.9M U.S. Department of Energy
- 1.0M KGS and TORP
- 0.1M Kansas Department of Commerce
15DOE Class Program Revisited
- Central Kansas CO2 Demonstration Project
- Phase 1-Reservoir Characterization( 1 Year)
- Phase 2-Field Demonstration(4 years)
- Phase 3-Monitoring(1 year)
16Demonstration Design Summary
- 55 acre, nine-spot
- 2 CO2 injectors
- 7 Producers
- 5 Containment Water Injectors
- 0.843 BCF CO2 injected-WAG
- 4.6 year operating life
- gt80,000 BO estimated recovery during DOE
- gt20,000 BO in 3 years after DOE Project
17Outline of Presentation
- The Central Kansas Initiative
- Field Demonstration Project Hall-Gurney Field
- The Carbon Dioxide Supply
- New Partner
- Expanded DOE Project
Tertiary Oil Recovery Project
18Carbon Dioxide Supply
- Is the resource base in LKC reservoirs large
enough to support a pipeline that could deliver
CO2 at 1.00/mcf? - Can the Golden Trend in the Hall-Gurney Field
anchor a pipeline?
Tertiary Oil Recovery Project
19William Flanders
20LKC Pipeline Results
- Risk weighted CO2 for LKC is 60-65 BCF -10
- CO2 oil potential from LKC 15-16MMBO
- Not enough LKC resource base to anchor pipeline
- Need 184 BCF risk weighted CO2 to deliver at
1.00/mcf at 10 IRR/10 year amortization
21Carbon Dioxide Pipeline
- Need an additional 120 BCF risk weighted CO2
potential to build 8 pipeline to Central Kansas - Are Arbuckle reservoirs potential carbon dioxide
miscible flood candidates? - Minimum miscibility pressure 1600 psi
- Initial reservoir pressure1050-1150 psi
- Well connected to an aquifer
22Outline of Presentation
- The Central Kansas Initiative
- Field Demonstration Project Hall-Gurney Field
- The Carbon Dioxide Supply
- New Partner
- Expanded Pilot/DOE Project
Tertiary Oil Recovery Project
23Carbon Dioxide Supply
- ICM(U.S. Energy Partners, LLC) announces ethanol
plant to be constructed in Russell(February
5,2001) - On stream November 1,2001
- CO2 production 3.4 MMCFD(wet at atmospheric
pressure) - 8.5 miles from CO2 demonstration project
Tertiary Oil Recovery Project
24Location of Ethanol Plant CO2 EOR Site
Kansas Geological Survey
25Field Demonstration of CO2 Miscible Flooding in
the L-KC,Central KansasProject Extension
http//www.kgs.ukans.edu/CO2/reports.html
Class II Revisited DE-AC26-00BC15124
October 1, 2001
MV Energy LLC
26Outline of Presentation
- The Central Kansas Initiative
- Field Demonstration Project Hall-Gurney Field
- The Carbon Dioxide Supply
- New Partner
- Expanded Pilot/DOE Project
Tertiary Oil Recovery Project
27Expanded Pilot Project
- Kinder Morgan reduced financial support
- CO2 available from ICM plant in Russell
- Pilot size increased to provide acceptable
economic and technical risk to MV Energy, ICM and
Kinder Morgan - Budget Period 1 extended to March 2002
- Additional funding obtained from DOE effective
October 1,2001 - Project extended to 2008
- ICM/Kinder Morgan to provide CO2
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29Expanded Project Economics
- Total Project 7.56 million
- 2.34 M CO2 Purchase, transport, recycling
- 2.21 M Research, Technology Transfer
- 1.33 M Capital Costs (wells, etc.)
- 1.68 M Operations (8 years)
- Funding
- 2.03 M MV Energy
- 0.52 M Kinder-Morgan CO2 Co. LP
- 0.97 M ICM
- 2.77 M U.S. Department of Energy
- 1.17 M KGS and TORP
- 0.10 M Kansas Department of Commerce
30Expanded DemonstrationProject
- 60 acre
- 2 CO2 injectors
- 6 Producers
- 6 Containment Water Injectors
- 0.85 BCF CO2 injected-WAG
- 8 year operating life
- gt96,000 BO estimated recovery
- Final pattern is still evolving
31CO2 Pilot Project Team
- Kansas Geological Survey
- Alan P. Byrnes
- Marty Dubois
- W. Lynn Watney
- Timothy R. Carr
- Willard J. Guy
- John Doveton
- Dana Adkins-Heljeson
- Kenneth Stalder
- Kinder-Morgan CO2 Co. LP
- Russell Martin
- Paul Nunley
- William Flanders(consultant)
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Edith C. Allison (Prgrm Mngr)
- Daniel Ferguson (Project Mngr)
- Tertiary Oil Recovery Project
- G. Paul Willhite
- Don W. Green
- Jyun-Syung Tsau
- Richard Pancake
- Rodney Reynolds
- Rajesh Kunjithaya
- Ed Clark
- MV Energy LLC
- Dave Murfin
- Jim Daniels
- Larry Jack
- Niall Avison
- State of Kansas (Dept. of Commerce)
- ICM, Inc. Dave Vander Griend
Kansas Geological Survey
Tertiary Oil Recovery Project
32Critical Issues Remaining
- Pattern Selection
- Recompletion of old wells
- Arbuckle reevaluation
- Arbuckle potential
- Properties of oil
- MMP-nitrogen content