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Quarterly Progress Report for the Period July 1 – September 30, 2021
Date Published:
10/30/2021
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This progress report presents an overview of Bakken Production Optimization Program (BPOP) activities from July 1 through September 30, 2021. Well economics were studied to identify opportunities to improve financial performance of Bakken wells. Cases are compared using a break-even cost metric. Three cases were considered using production data from wells with type-curves that represent a low, medium, and high breakeven oil price. Progress was achieved advancing two projects: 1) application of flared gas injection in production wells and 2) transient multiphase flow of undulating horizontal wells. Discussions were held with a BPOP partner that is providing EERC researchers with access to a BPS well for the purpose of temporal fluid collection and analysis. Oil and fluid-fingerprinting techniques continued to be optimized. Samples of oil from various petroleum systems were analyzed. Optimal conditions were tested on several rock samples. The data analytics effort focused on two activities: 1) completion optimization calculations on a drill spacing unit (DSU) level, which incorporated DSU development intensity metrics and well geospatial information and 2) comparison of the first 6- or 9-month production volumes and the best 6- or 9-month production volumes using a sliding window. A webinar entitled “Cyclic CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery in the Bakken Production System – Opportunities, Potential, and Challenges” was presented to BPOP partners on August 31, 2021. The enhanced oil recovery pilot test at BPOP partner company Liberty Resources’ East Nesson site was approved by the North Dakota Industrial Commission Oil and Gas Division. Modeling and simulation efforts by the EERC and project partners continued in support of planning efforts. The site was commissioned, including installation of pilot partner EOR ETC, LLC’s coinjection skid. The two-phase fluid injection EOR pilot successfully began on September 10, 2021.
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