water flood
production
cleanup

Using Super
Concentrated
ChainBreaker
Microbe Blend

water flood problems

Buildup of scale and/or organic deposits in the near well bore region blocks pore channels, which decreases permeability and can severely restrict fluid flow into the formation.

CHAINBREAKER ELIMINATES OIL CARRYOVER

Oil carryover is when production emulsions of oil and water, and the oil gets carried over into the water tank for reinjection down into formation through your injection wells. This happens when you are not having a good break out of the water by means of separators, treaters, recycling the tank bottoms and chemicals. The breakout is hindered by many reasons:
  •  Paraffins are not broken down enough causing water to bind to the paraffin, also the water can be entrained inside the paraffin.
  •  Treaters form chemical and wax pads inside the treater causing them not to dump properly by means of build up on the dumps causing dumping of oil into the water tanks,      and not a clear or clean separation of oil/ water interface.
  •  Tank bottoms are not recycled by means of mechanical or electrical issues.
  •  Chemicals are not strong enough, not using the right amount or economics.

Most chemical companies will say that 10ppm is good enough for carry over because its a very small amount and won’t cause too many issues. Here are a few issues with having 10ppm carry over.
  •  Your filters will start to plug up and not release enough water through. You will have to use bigger micron filters releasing more organics into your injectors and well bore.
  •  The injectors will start to plug up with oil, paraffin and scale, as you pump through injectors it will start to pressure up and get less volume down the tubing and into well bore      because of organic deposits. Before long, you can’t get enough volume down without exceeding frac pressures.
  •  Now you have a big task and very expensive cost of acidizing and using a lot of chemicals to clean out your injection system and all the downtime.



Let’s do a little math on the 10ppm:


There’s .667oz = 10ppm

Take .667 oz x 42 gallons = 28.014oz = 1 barrel

Lets say you are producing 1000 bbl( 161m3) of water = at 10ppm is 5.2 barrels of oil carry over per day.

You add 5.2 bbls of oil. Add 30 days to that for a month = 156 bbls of oil lost to carry over which works out to, lets say at $ 50.00 per bbl = $7800.00 per month multiply by 12 months and = $ 93,600.00 lost to carry over.

I don’t know about you, but if it was me I would want to keep that in my pocket!!!

Scale is also controlled in your injection or disposal system. Well treatment chemicals cannot do the amazing things these microbes are capable of. Treating wells with ChainBreaker has numerous benefits, works quickly and efficiently, is environmentally friendly, and is economical.

Microbial metabolites such as surfactants, solvents and low molecular weight organic acids and gases are well known mobilizing agents. They work the same as traditional EOR chemicals to reduce interfacial tension, decrease oil viscosity and improve microscopic sweep efficiency of the water flood. The biosurfactants can also produce changes in wettability, increasing relative permeability and releasing more oil from rock.

Treating the producing oil wells in your waterflood with Chain Breaker to solve paraffin/scale/iron sulfides or other production issues also brings many secondary benefits:

  1. Fluids coming out of separators contain considerably less oil, which goes to the production tank instead. As a result, filters run cleaner and longer.
  2. The resulting downhole water will have better qualities.
  3. Eliminate backflushing of injector wells due to plugging of solids (a large percentage of which are oil-coated iron sulfides).
  4. Tank bottom emulsions and other problems slowly vanish.
  5. ChainBreaker will start to change the downhole wettability of oil. Oil comes, while water stays in place. You get the true benefits of pressure maintenance.
  6. ChainBreaker will make biogas or methane which adds additional primary drive to the formation, moving oil to the wellbore.
  7. Chain Breaker then moves you into tertiary recovery for added tax breaks. In theory you will recover almost all of the non-intertitular oil in the rock. Microbes are the only recovery agent that can do that.

Solving your issues with ChainBreaker provides FREE OIL that was being
flushed back into the formation as part of the water injection system.

Ask yourself, "Am I in the oil business, or water business?"

Leave water in the formation.

Get more oil with ChainBreaker

PDF OF HISTORIC MICROBE TREATMENT OF WATER FLOOD PROJECTS