The Effect of Regular and Long Cyclic Steam Stimulation Method on Oil Production Performance of RUA Field in Central Sumatera

Abstract

RUA field is classified into heavy oil reservoir type due to the high viscosity value and low API degree . This causes the RUA field can not be produced conventionally. the solution of this problem is to apply steam or thermal injection into reservoir which could reduce the viscosity of the heavy oil (Bera & Babadagli, 2015). One of the best EOR methods that has been proven to overcome this issue is using CSS method (Suranto et al., 2020). During the production period, the CSS process can affect the viscosity of the oil by increasing the temperature of the oil in the reservoir. In one production well, cyclic work are applied periodically, its called repeated cyclic (J. J. Sheng, 2013). This is because time of reservoir temperature stays above the baseline temperature reservoir shortly. Even though the cyclic already done repeatedly, there is still a decrease of oil production, different peak reservoir temperatures, and found the possibility of pump damage after the cycle job which led to the need for analysis on these issues. 
The analysis was performed by looking at the historical production data, historical reservoir temperature data, and production pump work data in the RUA field. After a production history data that reprsentative analyzed, it was found that teh production after cyclic there is increasing, and there is also a decline from the previous cyclic production. Based on the results of the production analysis, it was found that 53.24% of the production wells in the RUA field were already in the ramp down stage and 46.75% were already in the ramp-up stage. Meanwhile, the average HET for regular cyclic jobs is 3-4 months and 5-6 months for long cyclic jobs. And from the pump work data, only 3 wells were damaged. This suggests that cyclic stimulation is completely safe to be performed in this field.