METHOD FOR OIL DEVELOPMENT WITH HORIZONTAL WELLS Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC E21B43/14 E21B43/08 

FIELD: oil and gas industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to the oil industry and can be used in multi layered reservoir development with horizontal wells. The method involves recovering the pools as the productive formation intervals along the horizontal bore of the development well. Filtered pipe strings are lowered. The horizontal well bore is sectioned with packers. The well production is separated. That is followed by the production selection and water injection. The formation is sectioned according to a permeability value. If the sections differ more than twice as much, water-swellable packers are arranged at the section boundaries. A filter inside is provided with a solid horizontal partition extending along the whole filter. This partition is used to separate upper and lower portions of the filter. The partition has a hydrophilic surface having a degree of hydrophility of no less than 99%. Capillary holes have a diameter of no more than 2 mm. The holes density is not less than 50 holes/m. A horizontal position of the partition is controlled by sensors mounted at an inlet and an outlet of the filter. An upper portion of a filter wall is perforated, while a lower portion is solid. A water portion is reduced in a liquid supplied from the well bore through the upper portion of the filter. The water is injected through the hydrophilic surface and capillary holes into the lower portion of the filter. In front of the perforations of the filter, the packer is mounted to cut off an annular space of the well. The lower portion of the filter has holes for water outflow into the annular space. The above water is pumped into another formation. The lower portion of the filter is not connected to the piping string, whereon the filter is lowered. The upper portion of the filter is connected to the pipe string. The low-water fluid is supplied from the upper portion of the filter into the pipe string, which is brought up by means of a pump.

EFFECT: more effective separation of oil and water in the well bore, more effective water-flooding and as a consequence the higher oil recovery factor of the deposit.

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