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Hot Water Injection Pilot: A Key to the Waterflood Design for the Waxy Crude of the Mangala Field
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, IPTC 2008: International Petroleum Technology Conference, Dec 2008, cp-148-00197
Abstract
In 2004, the Mangala field was discovered in the Barmer Basin of Rajasthan, India. The field contains approximately 1.3<br>billion barrels of STOIIP in high-quality fluviatile reservoirs. The oil is waxy and viscous, with wax appearance temperature<br>and pour point within a few degrees of the reservoir temperature. The base development plan is waterflooding, and a major<br>concern identified during the field appraisal stage was reservoir damage due to in situ wax dropout because of cooling if<br>ambient temperature water was injected.