Interwell tracer technology

Author: Song Jishui
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Publish Date: 2003-11-01
Features: Tracer technology has been successfully applied in various fields such as petroleum, hydrology, medicine, agriculture, and forestry. In the petroleum industry, tracer technology has also been used in areas such as isotope water tracing, detecting oil pipeline leaks, interwell tracer testing, and single-well chemical tracer determination of residual oil saturation. This book will only focus on the application of interwell tracer technology in reservoir engineering research. Interwell tracer testing involves a complete system, from tracer selection, dosage design, tracer layout, tracer injection, tracer monitoring (sampling frequency, sample analysis), to the final result interpretation (quantitative or qualitative interpretation). Any issue in any of these steps can affect the reliability of interwell tracer testing data. Some oilfields have failed tracer schemes due to problems in a specific step, resulting in a waste of significant human and material resources. Lessons from such failures can be found both domestically and internationally. This book comprehensively summarizes research findings on interwell tracer technology both domestically and internationally, aiming to provide a detailed introduction to experimental methods for evaluating tracers (tracer screening and determination of tracer distribution coefficients), scheme design, injection techniques, result interpretation, and field application examples. It is hoped that this book will be helpful to readers in the field of interwell tracer technology. Tracer technology has been successfully applied in petroleum, hydrology, medicine, agriculture, and forestry. In the petroleum industry, tracer technology has also been used in areas such as isotope water tracing, detecting oil pipeline leaks, and interwell tracer testing.