Petroleum Reservoir Evaluation and Development ›› 2022, Vol. 12 ›› Issue (6): 902-909.doi: 10.13809/j.cnki.cn32-1825/te.2022.06.009

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Enhanced oil recovery and parameter optimization of hydrocarbon injection in fractured-cavity reservoirs

CHENG Xiaojun1,2()   

  1. 1. Sinopec Northwest Oilfield Company, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830011, China
    2. Sinopec Key Laboratory of Enhanced Recovery of Fracture-Cave Reservoir, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830011, China
  • Received:2022-03-24 Online:2022-12-26 Published:2022-12-02

Abstract:

Fractured-cavity reservoirs have diverse storage spaces, strong heterogeneity, large differences in oil-water properties, high mobility ratio of immiscible nitrogen flooding in water flooding, serious water and gas channeling, limited sweeping range, and primary and secondary oil recovery stages. Oil recovery is much lower than that of clastic sandstone reservoirs. Taking the S91 fracture-cavity unit in Tahe Oilfield as the object, on the basis of geological modeling, history matching, remaining oil characterization and phase state experimental fitting, a numerical simulation study on enhanced oil recovery by hydrocarbon injection in fractured-cavity reservoirs is carried out, so as the evaluation of the hydrocarbon-gas miscibility conditions in fractured-cavity reservoirs, and the optimization of EOR parameters of hydrocarbon injection. The results show that the minimum miscibility pressure of injected hydrocarbon gas and formation crude oil in S91 unit is 42.5 MPa, which can be miscible under the current formation pressure. The mechanism of miscibility is vaporization gas flooding. As the content of heavy hydrocarbon components in the injected gas increases, the recovery factor increases. The gas injection method is gas injection in fractured reservoirs, and liquid recovery in caved reservoirs. The gas injection parameters are preferably 168×104 m3, gas injection rate of 4×104 m3/d, and injection-production ratio of 1∶0.9.

Key words: fractured-cavity reservoir, hydrocarbon-gas miscible flooding, numerical modeling, parameter optimization, Tahe Oilfield

CLC Number: 

  • TE357