North Ward Estes Field y 295 TABLE E-L, Yates Reservoir Properties (CO, Project Area) (Copyright © 1991, SPE, from SPE Reservoir Engineering, February 1991") Formation ‘Yates Lithology Sandstone Depth, fe 2,500 Reservoir temperature, °F 83 Porosity, % PV 16 Permeability to air, md 37 Dykstra-Parsons coefficient 0.85 Initial conditions Water saturation, % PV 50 Reservoir pressure at gas/oil contact, psia 1,400 Saturation pressure, psia 1,400 il FVF, RB/STB 12 Oil viscosity, ep 14 Solution GOR, scf/STB 500 il gravity, “API 37 am % PV 5 MMP (pure CO,), psia 937 Flood patterns (Sections 3 and 6 to 8) 2Oacre five-spots Flood patterns (Sections 9 and 10) 20cre line drives variable. The Strays sand is composed of thin-bedded, lenticular, and intertidal to subtidal siltstones and fine-grained sandstones with the highest clay content of any Yates interval. Because of this, permeability land reservoir continuity suffer while porosity remains high. Sands J, and J, are composed of coarser sands with much less clay content and, therefore, have higher effective porosities and permeabilities. The depo- sitional environment was a beach to near-shore marine where turbulence winnowed finer silts and clays out of the strike-oriented sand deposits. Table E-1 lists average reservoir properties for the Yates. LABORATORY WORK Extensive laboratory work was conducted to support the evaluation of ‘CO, flooding in the NWE field. + Blackoil PVT and oil/CO, phase-behavior studies of recombined separator oil and gas samples (see Table E-2) determined oil welling, viscosity reduction, and phase transition pressures vs mole percent CO, The PVT data show the typical complex phase