Abstract:

CO₂ flooding is a promising way to improve the crude oil recovery ratio. CO₂ could not only dissolve in crude oil, but also replace some light hydrocarbons or intermediate hydrocarbons in crude oil. So the composition has great influence on the component mass transfer and minimum miscible pressure of the CO₂ miscible flooding. Therefore, the influence of the quantitative characterization of crude oil composition on the minimum miscible pressure of the CO₂ miscible flooding has engineering significance for the reservoir screening. Taking the original formation fluid of a certain oilfield in China as the research object, we analyzed the multistage contact miscibility mechanism. Meanwhile, we used the Winprop module in CMG to carried out the phase simulation of experimental data. The results show that the minimum miscible pressure between CO₂ and crude oil is proportional to the molar composition of N₂, C₁ and C₁₁₊, and inversely proportional to that of C₂~C₁₀. While the mixing of the CO₂ and reservoir fluids needs higher reservoir pressure than minimum miscible pressure. It requires that when screening reservoirs with CO₂ flooding, we should try to consider the reservoir with high mole content of C₂ ~ C₁₀ and low mole content of C₂₄. It has great guiding significance for miscible displacement design and miscible phase prediction.

Key words: CO₂ miscible flooding, minimum miscible pressure, crude oil component/composition, phase simulation