Senior Reservoir Engineer at Petrobel
The development of tracer technology has been used for a long time in the petroleum sector over the many years ago. Tracers finds multiple Uses throughout all stages of the reservoir lifecycle—drilling, completion, hydraulic fracturing, reservoir assessment, forecasting, and optimization. Tracers can help assess mud infiltration, evaluate wellbore chemical reactions, monitor mud circulation, detect casing leaks, select fracture treatments, and monitor changing reservoir conditions. It can be employed in late field development stage during execution of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) process. The reliance of tracer technology has been increased greatly in the latest period especially for EOR applications. The importance of tracer analysis is not only for selecting the most suitable EOR technique, but also it tremendously assists in designing the project.
Two types of tracer technology are nearly used for EOR applications; single well tracer, and inter-well tracer type. Each type has its specific target, methodology of usage, and particular acquired data
The value of this presentation is to introduce tracer technology, its objective, different types of material popularly used, the main categories of such application, and design aspect related to such technology. Finally, it will end up with actual practical cases.