Fire Flooding Ignition Techniques

During the recent development of the fire-flood oil recovery processes, one of the first problems that had to be answered is how to initiate combustion. It was found that quite often certain crude oils were difficult to ignite even in the Iaboratory experiments, and the problems were magnified in field cases. Just why certain oils are more or less susceptible to combustion than other oils of oil bearing formations is not precisely known; but because of this, seireral ignition methods have been developeci and ignition equipment has been improved. Design temperature levels can be obtained and the heat generation capabilities of ignition equipment is sufficient to meet almost any resewoil- condition.