Oil Reservoir Gas Cap

In saturated oil reservoirs the free gas forms a gas cap portion of the reservoir overlain by free gas due to gravity segregation.

Oil reservoir gas cap.

The segregating gas cap reservoir terminates at a pressure of 508 psia. For example the red colored region of the numbi field in figure 3 01 is a gas cap. A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface pool of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations petroleum reservoirs are broadly classified as conventional and unconventional reservoirs. However many problems regarding open hole completion such as bottom water or gas cap management acidizing and water shutoff are difficult to solve.

For a massive oil reservoir the intermediate casing may be run to the top of the oil reservoir and then open hole completion is applied after drilling the weathering crust. The segregating gas cap reservoir recovers 91 1 of the oil leg ogip. For a reservoir to exist oil and gas from the source rock must migrate into the reservoir rock which takes millions of years. Certain oil reservoirs are discovered with an initial reservoir pressure below the bubble point pressure where a primary gas cap forms long before the reservoir is discovered and produced.

The cap rock seals the top and sides so that the hydrocarbons are trapped in the reservoir while water often seals the bottom. A gas cap present at the time of the discovery of the oil reservoir is known as a primary gas cap. This recovery level is considerably greater than the nonsegregating gas cap or solution gas drive reservoirs 74 9 and 52 3 respectively. In conventional reservoirs the naturally occurring hydrocarbons such as crude oil or natural gas are trapped by overlying rock formations with lower permeability while.