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Effects of pore structure on surfactant/polymer flooding-based enhanced oil recovery in conglomerate reservoirs
Received date: 2019-04-10
Revised date: 2019-12-26
Online published: 2020-02-19
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Supported by China National Science and Technology Major Project(2016ZX05025-003-010);Supported by China National Science and Technology Major Project(2016ZX05010-005)
To understand the displacement characteristics and remaining oil displacement process by the surfactant/polymer (SP) flooding in cores with different pore structures, the effects of pore structure on the enhanced oil recovery of SP flooding was investigated at the pore, core and field scales through conducting experiments on natural core samples with three typical types of pore structures. First, the in-situ nuclear magnetic resonance core flooding test was carried out to capture the remaining oil variation features in the water flooding and SP flooding through these three types of cores. Subsequently, at the core scale, displacement characteristics and performances of water flooding and SP flooding in these three types of cores were evaluated based on the full-size core flooding tests. Finally, at the field scale, production characteristics of SP flooding in the bimodal sandstone reservoir and multimodal conglomerate reservoir were compared using the actual field production data. The results show: as the pore structure gets more and more complex, the water flooding performance gets poorer, but the incremental recovery factor by SP flooding gets higher; the SP flooding can enhance the producing degree of oil in 1-3 μm pores in the unimodal and bimodal core samples, while it produces largely oil in medium and large pores more than 3 μm in pore radius in the multimodal core sample. The core flooding test using full-size core sample demonstrates that the injection of SP solution can significantly raise up the displacement pressure of the multimodal core sample, and greatly enhance recovery factor by emulsifying the remaining oil and enlarging swept volume. Compared with the sandstone reservoir, the multimodal conglomerate reservoir is more prone to channeling. With proper profile control treatments to efficiently enlarge the microscopic and macroscopic swept volumes, SP flooding in the conglomerate reservoir can contribute to lower water cuts and longer effective durations.
Zheyu LIU , Yiqiang LI , Runxi LENG , Zhenping LIU , Xin CHEN , Hossein HEJAZI . Effects of pore structure on surfactant/polymer flooding-based enhanced oil recovery in conglomerate reservoirs[J]. Petroleum Exploration and Development, 2020 , 47(1) : 134 -145 . DOI: 10.1016/S1876-3804(20)60012-X
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