Research Article

Thermal Hydraulic Analysis Using GIS on Application of HTR to Thermal Recovery of Heavy Oil Reservoirs

Table 2

Basic configuration of injection.

Injection with boiler/HTR-PM

Number of used boiler/HTR-PM reactor at same time15/1
Number of injected wells at same time30 (20–40)
Number of boilers100
Number of wells6000
Initial temperature of steam (°C)318.05/566
Mass flow out of each boiler/HTR-PM (ton/day)200–800/6500
Mass flow rate of water to each well (ton/day)Around 200
Initial pressure of steam (MPa)11/14.3
Initial dryness of steam0.725/1
Average length of main steam pipeline (km)0/7.5
Area of reference oil field (km2)
Average length of branch steam pipeline (km)0.8
Average distance from injection station to well head0.2
Depth of typical well (m)759.75