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Challenges of Heavy Oil Fluid Sampling and Characterization


A significant portion of the world’s hydrocarbon reserves is found in heavy oil reservoirs. Heavy oils are often found in shallow and highly unconsolidated reservoirs, or sometimes in deep, tight formations. Often the high asphaltic content of these oils results in relatively higher oil density and viscosity; hence, their lower reservoir mobility poses significant challenges to both sampling and PVT data measurements. Furthermore, modeling these fluids for reservoir evaluation requires special techniques to capture their unique phase behavior.

The challenges of representative down-hole or surface fluid sample acquisition demand customized sampling methods to deal with:

  • low oil mobility
  • sand production from unconsolidated formations
  • high asphaltene content and resulting high gradients


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In addition, the prerequisite for laboratory measurement is special sample preparation to remove emulsified water. These high viscosity oils exhibit slower gas liberation below the bubble point and hence delayed gas-phase formation, thus making “true” oil property measurements a challenge. Difficulties associated with fluid modeling include characterizing apparent bubble point behavior, large viscosity changes with pressure and temperature, and asphaltene dropout.
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In this paper, we present a comprehensive methodology for heavy oil sampling and characterization in unconsolidated sands as well as in low permeability reservoirs. We present field examples to highlight the challenges and illustrate the methodology for fluid sampling, down-hole fluid analysis, laboratory PVT data acquisition, and modeling. Sampling methods for heavy and asphaltic oils were custom designed with special tools and sensors to obtain representative samples and precise down-hole fluid analysis data. New laboratory techniques were developed to prepare the samples for analysis and to distinguish between the “true” and “apparent” bubble point behavior exhibited by the heavy oil due to its non-equilibrium behavior. Fluid models based on.


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