What is the greatest challenge that you have faced while developing a karstic reservoir?

In the Tahe Field, production challenges include isolated caves, bypassed oil due to high-permeability fracture corridors, and pockets of attic oil (Fig. 1).

By converting a production well into a water injector, the engineers at Tahe forced oil out of the lower caves, along the vertical fracture network, and into the upper caves (Fig. 2). The attic oil problem was overcome by using nitrogen injection to create secondary gas caps, thereby pushing oil down to the perforated interval (Fig. 3). At Tahe, these methods yielded an incremental oil recovery of 5%.

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