Study on the Compatibility between Combined Control of Channel Plugging and Foam Flooding and Heterogeneous Reservoirs—Taking Bohai Z Oilfield as an Example

Yunbao Zhang, Chengzhou Wang (), Ming Liu, Zhen Zhou, Jiamei Quan, Xulin Zheng and Zhaohai Zhan
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Yunbao Zhang: Key Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery of Education Ministry, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing 163318, China
Chengzhou Wang: Key Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery of Education Ministry, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing 163318, China
Ming Liu: Daqing Oil Field Co., Ltd., Daqing 163712, China
Zhen Zhou: Key Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery of Education Ministry, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing 163318, China
Jiamei Quan: Key Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery of Education Ministry, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing 163318, China
Xulin Zheng: Key Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery of Education Ministry, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing 163318, China
Zhaohai Zhan: Key Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery of Education Ministry, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing 163318, China

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 17, 1-14

Abstract: With the oilfield developed to a later stage and its heterogeneity gradually becoming more serious, the adaptability of conventional profile control technologies for the reservoir becomes worse and worse. Therefore, the fitness of compatibility between combined patterns of profile control and target reservoir becomes an important factor for the efficient development of the oil field. Due to the importance of compatibility between the profile control and reservoir property, research on the remaining oil recovery with combined patterns of profile control and foam flooding were carried out. The experimental results showed that the combined profile control is highly consistent with the target reservoir. With a little lower initial viscosity (28.3–40.9 mPa·s), the channel plugging system is easy to inject. Due to the addition of a polymer, the reinforced foam is not easy to defoam when transporting in the pore throats of the core sample, and its spontaneous adaptability makes it match with the porous media of the formation automatically, which effectively prolongs the transporting distance for the foam in the deep part of the core sample. The segment plug with a gel-type profile control agent injected at the front stage is of great significance to the non-homogeneous reservoir, so it is necessary to inject a sufficient gel-type profile control agent into the high permeability layer to make it produce a seal. When the permeability differential was equal to 10, the maximum increase of oil recovery degree was 29.69%, and the development effect became worse after increasing or decreasing the permeability differential.

Keywords: combined profile control; differential; recovery; compatibility; heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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