Reservoir Evaluation and Development ›› 2020, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (3): 68-74.doi: 10.13809/j.cnki.cn32-1825/te.2020.03.010

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Dominant mechanism and application of CO2 immiscible flooding in M block with low permeability

JIN Zhongkang1,WANG Zhilin2,MAO Chaoqi1   

  1. 1. NO.2 Oil Production Company of Jiangsu Oilfield Company, Jinhu, Jiangsu 211600, China;
    2. Research Institute of Exploration and Development of Jiangsu Oilfield Company, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225009, China
  • Online:2020-07-03 Published:2020-06-26

Abstract:

CO2 immiscible flooding is a very important technology for low permeability reservoirs with strong heterogeneity, high miscibility pressure of crude oil or severe reservoir voidage. Firstly, the expansion experiments and MMP test of CO2 injection are carried out, and the IFT and mole content of oil and gas phase of each block are tested by numerical simulation. And then, the dominant mechanism of CO2 injection to recover reservoir energy and improve oil displacement efficiency in low permeability reservoir are revealed. Therefore, taking M Block with low-permeability as the research object, and based on 3D fine geological modeling, the numerical simulation is applied to optimize reservoir pressure, gas injection volume, gas injection velocity, shut-in gas-oil ratio and other parameters, and the optimal technical policy is formulated. Preferable recovery performance is obtained through field application. The results show that for the CO2 immiscible flooding technology in low permeability reservoirs, dissolving and expanding oil phase by gas injection are the dominant mechanism for both recovering reservoir energy and improving oil displacement efficiency, besides, the latter still need to reduce the IFT and evaporate and extract the light components. This study provides a reference for the formulation of CO2 immiscible continuous flooding scheme in other reservoirs of the same type.

Key words: low permeability reservoir, reservoir energy recovery, dominant EOR mechanisms, parameter optimization, field application

CLC Number: 

  • TE345