Magyar Szenhidrogenipari Kutato-/fejleszto Intezet

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Institut Francais Du Pe'trole

Magyar Szenhidrogenipari Kutatofejleszto

Koolaj Es Foldgazbanyaszati Vallalat

Tibor Paal

Sandor Doleschall

Gyula Milley

Gyorgy Tiszai

Antal Szittar

Geza Udvardi

Jozsef Papay

Miklos Kristof

Gyorgyi Gaal

Jean-Claude Moulu

Marc Baviere

Andras Gal

Bela Toth

Geza Csajtai

Istvan Koncz

Mihaly Megyeri

Zoltan Biro

Sandorne Bauer

Eva Farkas

Sandor Bauer

Gyula Nagy

Laszlo Schmidt

Gyula Gesztesi

Daniel Racz

A method for injecting water into fluid storing rocks containing clay minerals, in particular in hydrocarbon sites formed by sandstones, sands, marlaceous sandstones, water storing rocks, geothermic circulation sites, in zones in the vicinity of wells, extending to large sites. Continuously or discontinuously compounds are introduced into the storing rocks having a hydrated cation diameter in the range between 0.13 and 0.15 nm, a coordination number 12. The compounds are preferably potassium-, and/or ammonium-, and/or zirconium salts. Depending on the clay content of the storing rock, stabilization is performed by using a solution of the enumerated salts in a concentration of 0.1-500 g/l, advantageously 0.1 to 300 g/l, and in a quantity of 0.5 to 5000 m.sup.3, preferably 50 to 3000 m.sup.3, which is related to the vertical dimension of the rock, expressed in meters.

Method for injecting water in fluid-storing rocks containing clay

The present invention relates to a new process for stabilizing the clay minerals in reservoir rocks containing oil, in particular in rock comprising sandstones, sand, or marliceous sandstones as well as eliminating the electrostatic dispersion and swelling of the clays when steam injection is used for mineral oil exploitation. According to the process, cations capable of stabilizing the reservoir rock, having a hydrated diameter of 0.13 to 0.15 nm, preferably potassium and/or ammonium and/or zirconium ions are introduced in the form of a 0.01 to 5.0 N aqueous solution or in the form of a vapor mixture or a mixture of steam and gas(es).

Method for stabilizing clay minerals during oil exploitation by steam

An improvement is presented in a process for increasing the yield of production wells in crude oil reservoirs having inhomogenous strata, wherein an aqueous solution of a salt is injected through an injection well into the reservoir, without causing fracturing thereof, and then salt crystals are formed at stratum temperature by removing water from the solution. If desired, the salt crystals can be redissolved and reformed at other parts of the reservoir.

Process for increasing the yield of oil reservoirs

There is provided a process for the enhanced recovery of oil from oil bearing strata with gaseous or liquid form of carbon dioxide, the improvement which comprises prior to or simultaneously with the injection of carbon dioxide, injecting into the strata in a single slug or in a plurality of slugs a material consisting essentially of at least one compound which has a clay-effect inhibiting cation with a hydrated ion diameter of from about 0.136 to about 0.15 nm and a coordination number of 12, in a concentration number of 12, in a concentration of from about 0.001 mol to about 50 mol.

Enhanced oil recovery

The invention relates to a process for improving the sedimentation and filtering properties of waste waters and/or slurries and muds containing clay minerals. The waste waters and/or slurries obtained in the various technologies and containing clay minerals and optionally also other solid components are treated with compounds containing ions having a hydrated ionic diameter of from 0.12 to 0.15 nm and a co-ordination number of 12.

Process for improving the sedimentation and filtering properties of

A process for the enhanced oil recovery in oil reservoirs having a significant cation exchange capacity. A displacement slug is injected into an injection well formed from several successive zones, the solubility in the injection water of the anionic surfactant which it contains being adjusted so as to increase, for compensating the rock-micellar solution interactions, from one zone of the slug to the next considering the order of introducing the different zones of the slug.

Enhanced oil recovery process by injecting a micellar solution of

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