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Enhance production with inert Nitrogen & Carbon Dioxide.
NITROGEN AND CARBON DIOXIDE
Flue gases and exhaust gases have been used since 1960 either to supplement or to replace natural gas as an injection medium to maintain or re-pressurize reservoirs, but without further processing and filtration, they were too corrosive and destroyed down hole equipment.
CLEAN & DRY
Our process takes exhaust gases from a multi-cylinder engine driving a compressor through a specialized catalytic converter and a proprietary series of heating, cooling, trapping and filtration stages that enables the extraction of a SUPER CLEAN mixture of nitrogen (85%) and carbon dioxide (15%). NI-CO injects Carbon Dioxide and Nitrogen directly into the well bore and the oil-bearing reservoir to reduce the viscosity of the crude oil and allow the oil to move more easily through the reservoir rock. Using a combination of nitrogen and CO2 has advantages over straight CO2 injection. Straight CO2 can reach saturation with a large amount of carbon dioxide left to drive down the pH range, leaving a highly acidic system that can cause corrosion to down hole equipment and tubulars.
ACCEPTABLE PH
Using nitrogen as a buffer to fill the depleted areas in the reservoir maintains the reservoir pressure and enables the carbon dioxide to perform its function within an acceptable pH range.
• Carbon dioxide gas is absorbed into the crude oil around the well bore resulting in significant reduction in oil viscosity this allows the oil to flow better increasing recovery and production.
• Additionally the inert properties of the nitrogen provide pressure equalization into the reservoir that causes additional movement of the oil. Reservoir pressure, artificially induced by the nitrogen, provides the energy required for the oil reserves to move within the reservoir and aids extraction.
