Experimental study on CO2-EOR in fractured reservoirs: Influence of fracture density, miscibility and production scheme
Experimental study on CO2-EOR in fractured reservoirs: Influence of fracture density, miscibility and production scheme
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裂缝性油藏 CO2-EOR 实验研究:裂缝密度、混相性和生产方案的影响
DOI:
10.1016/j.petrol.2018.11.039
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发表时间:
2019-03-01
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Chen, Xu
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作者:
Ding, Mingchen;Gao, Miao;Chen, Xu
The effects of fracture density, miscibility and production scheme on CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in fractured reservoirs were investigated. A series of CO2 injection experiments were performed in various lengths of core plugs at both fractured and unfractured condition. Results demonstrate that although presence of fractures dramatically reduces the effectiveness of CO2 flooding, increasing fracture density clearly benefits its recovery potential. The oil recovery mechanism is mainly recognized to be oil swelling at the beginning of CO2 continuous injection and gradually turns to extraction of lighter hydrocarbons (C-5-C-30) with increased injection time. First-contact miscible flooding is more effective than both multi-contact miscible and immiscible flooding and proves its feasibility when fracture density exceeded 5.0 fractures per meter, with the maximum recovery up to 68.1% of original oil in place (OOIP). CO2 huff-n-puff is very powerful in recovering the residual oil after CO2 flooding. Fracture density has no major effect on huff-n-puff performance while at lower fracture-density condition, more cycles are required to reach the ultimate oil recovery. Multi-contact miscible CO2 huff-n-puff has the greatest potential of EOR ability in fractured reservoirs, which can increase the oil recovery to 86.2% OOIP on the basis of CO2 flooding test.