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Experimental study on the oil production characteristics during the waterflooding of different types of reservoirs in Ordos Basin, NW China
Received date: 2021-12-24
Revised date: 2021-06-24
Online published: 2021-08-25
Supported by
National Natural Science Foundation Project of China(U19B2010);Youth Science and Technology Innovation Team of the Southwest Petroleum University(2018CXTD10)
Waterflooding experiments were conducted in micro-models (microscopic scale) and on plunger cores from low permeability, extra-low permeability and ultra-low permeability reservoirs in the Ordos Basin under different displacement pressures using the NMR techniques to find out pore-scale oil occurrence state, oil production characteristics and residual oil distribution during the process of waterflooding and analyze the effect of pore structure and displacement pressure on waterflooding efficiency. Under bound water condition, crude oil mainly occurs in medium and large pores in the low-permeability sample, while small pores and medium pores are the main distribution space of crude oil in extra-low permeability and ultra-low permeability samples. During the waterflooding, crude oil in the medium and large pores of the three types of samples are preferentially produced. With the decrease of permeability of the samples, the waterflooding front sequentially shows uniform displacement, network displacement and finger displacement, and correspondingly the oil recovery factors decrease successively. After waterflooding, the residual oil in low-permeability samples is mainly distributed in medium pores, and appears in membranous and angular dispersed phase; but that in the extra-low and ultra-low permeability samples is mainly distributed in small pores, and appears in continuous phase formed by a bypass flow and dispersed phase. The low-permeability samples have higher and stable oil displacement efficiency, while the oil displacement efficiency of the extra-low permeability and ultra-low permeability samples is lower, but increases to a certain extent with the increase of displacement pressure.
Wenlian XIAO , Yubin YANG , Min LI , Nong LI , Jingxi YOU , Jinzhou ZHAO , Lingli ZHENG , Keming ZHOU , Jitian REN , Yue WANG . Experimental study on the oil production characteristics during the waterflooding of different types of reservoirs in Ordos Basin, NW China[J]. Petroleum Exploration and Development, 2021 , 48(4) : 935 -945 . DOI: 10.1016/S1876-3804(21)60078-2
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