Monitoring of Enhanced Oil Recovery Processing

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An advanced geoelectric method for monitring EOR precess has been developed by the Geophysical Laboratory in Kyushu University, Japan. The 4D method named as Fluid Flow Tomography has been applied to monitor fluid-flow behaviors before steam injection, during injection and after steam injection for three months by the joint research works of Kyushu University, JAPEX and CANOS on the Hangingstone test site in Fort McMurray, Athabasca area, Alberta, Canada.With the automatic recording system controlled by a personal computer, charged potentials and spontaneous potentials can be simultameously measured with two seconds interval as a function of time at multiple stations up to 120 channels surrounding operating boreholes. Fluid-flow behaviors in the oil sand foramtion were visualized as a function of time by making contour maps of residual potentials derived from spontaneous polarization data and relative changes of apparent resistivity distributions during the 8th thermally enhanced oil recovery process on the Hangingstone test site.Three dimensional distributions of injected steam, condensed water, oil bank and bitumens could be imaged as a function of time by the 3D inversion of Spontaneous Polarization data and Charged Potential data separated by data processings of digital filtering techniques from the observed data obtained by the present Fluid Flow Tomography method.