US 11,873,703 B2
Method of underground storage of injection gas containing CO2 gas and enhanced oil recovery
Yoshihiro Terao, Tokyo (JP); and Kazuto Kurosawa, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to JAPAN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/914,818
Filed by Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Feb. 15, 2022, PCT No. PCT/JP2022/005930
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 27, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/176847, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 25, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-022419 (JP), filed on Feb. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0134985 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. E21B 43/16 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 43/164 (2013.01) 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of underground storage of injection gas containing CO2 gas and enhanced oil recovery, which is performed through an injection well including two flow paths as a water flow path and a gas flow path and a fine bubble-generating device placed at lower ends of the water and gas flow paths, the method comprising:
a step of supplying an injection water through the water flow path to the injection well;
a step of jetting a high-pressure water jet which is increased in velocity by narrowing a flow of the injection water through the fine bubble-generating device with suctioning an injection gas through the gas flow path into the fine bubble-generating device, fine bubbles of the injection gas being jetted with the injection water from the fine bubble-generating device; and
a step of allowing a gas-liquid mixed fluid containing fine bubbles generated by mixing the injection water with the fine bubbles in the fine bubble-generating device to penetrate into a permeable formation such as an oil reservoir,
wherein the two flow paths have a double pipe structure of an outer pipe and an inner pipe,
the gas flow path is provided between an inner side of the outer pipe and an outer side of the inner pipe,
the water flow path is provided on an inner side of the inner pipe,
the fine bubble-generating device is placed at a lower end of the outer pipe, and
the fine bubble-generating device is composed of the gas flow path, the water flow path, a high-pressure nozzle which increases the velocity by narrowing the flow of the injection water, and a throat forming an outer cylinder.