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Upstream oil and gas producers are trending towards increased utilization of various tertiary or enhanced oil recovery (EOR) strategies to maximize recovery of residual oil from mature reservoirs, oil that cannot otherwise be recovered feasibly by continued use of secondary recovery floods. Among these EOR strategies is the incorporation of tailored chemicals in water floods that improve late-stage flood sweep efficiencies, resulting in increased incremental oil recovery yields. Producers are using designed polymers, surfactants and alkaline agents, alone or in combination to create higher yielding tertiary water floods. It is common for Oil and Gas Producers to utilize chemically enhanced oil recovery (cEOR) strategies within their portfolio of producing operations. ClearBakk was contracted to design, procure, fabricate and package a 4.8 t/day polymer hydration plant (PHP) for deployment in a producer’s Alaskan North Slope Prudhoe Bay operation. By employing polymer-thickened water floods, the producer aims to generate more heavy oil from mature wells. Prior to project order, ClearBakk collaborated with the producer and the selected dry polymer supplier to establish an appropriate project design basis, including process design, module building configurations, off module layouts while also accounting for the complete range of required site tie-ins. The process design was […]
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