Experimental study on minimum miscible pressure of rich gas flooding in light oil reservoir

2014 ◽  
pp. 687-692
SPE Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (05) ◽  
pp. 1768-1783 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmood Reza Yassin ◽  
Ali Habibi ◽  
Ashkan Zolfaghari ◽  
Sara Eghbali ◽  
Hassan Dehghanpour

Summary In this study, we use a custom-designed visual cell to investigate nonequilibrium carbon dioxide (CO2)/oil interactions under high-pressure/high-temperature conditions. We visualize the CO2/oil interface and measure the visual-cell pressure over time. We perform five sets of visualization tests. The first three tests aim at investigating interactions of gaseous (g), liquid (l), and supercritical (sc) CO2 with a Montney (MTN) oil sample. In the fourth test, to visualize the interactions in the bulk oil phase, we replace the opaque MTN oil with a translucent Duvernay (DUV) light oil (LO). Finally, we conduct an N2(sc)/oil test to compare the results with those of CO2(sc)/oil test. We also compare the results of nonequilibrium CO2/oil interactions with those obtained from conventional pressure/volume/temperature (PVT) tests. Results of the first three tests show that oil immediately expands upon injection of CO2 into the visual cell. CO2(sc) leads to the maximum oil expansion followed by CO2(l) and CO2(g). Furthermore, the rate of oil expansion in the CO2(sc)/oil test is higher than that in CO2(l)/oil and CO2(g)/oil tests. We also observe extracting and condensing flows at the CO2(l)/oil and CO2(sc)/oil interfaces. Moreover, we observe density-driven fingers inside the LO phase because of the local increase in the density of LO. The results of PVT tests show that the density of the CO2/oil mixture is higher than that of the CO2-free oil, explaining the density-driven natural convection during CO2(sc) injection into the visual cell. We do not observe either extracting/condensing flows or density-driven mixing for the N2(sc)/oil test, explaining the low expansion of oil in this test. The results suggest that the combination of density-driven natural convection and extracting/condensing flows enhances CO2(sc) dissolution into the oil phase, leading to fast oil expansion after CO2(sc) injection into the visual cell.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Xiaolong Chai ◽  
Leng Tian ◽  
Mengyuan Zhang ◽  
Hongzhi Shao ◽  
Jianguo Wang ◽  
...  

Abstract It is complex and obviously different for the production characteristics of CO2 water- alternating-gas flooding in tight reservoir and influenced by many factors. Therefore, the production prediction is a key matter of efficient development of CO2 water- alternating-gas to be solved in tight reservoirs. In order to solve this problem, in this paper, the production characteristics of CO2 water- alternating-gas flooding production well are analyzed and classified in tight oil reservoir of Block A as an example. On this basis, geological, fracturing operation and development factors are considered and the sensitivity of the influencing factors was carried out. The grey relation analysis(GRA) was used to screen the main influencing factors of poduction and establish the poduction evaluation model to realize the rapid prediction production. The results show that the wells of CO2 water- alternating-gas flooding in tight reservoirs can be divided into four types. The production is affected by permeability, reservoir thickness, amount of sand entering the ground, amount of liquid entering the ground, gas/water ratio, injection rate and injection pressure, and the main influencing factors of production are amount of sand entering the ground, reservoir thickness and amount of liquid entering the ground. The production of oil can be predicted quickly based on the relation between production and comprehensive evaluation factor of production. The average relative error between the predicted results and the actual predicted production is 8%, which proves the reliability and accuracy of this method.


Author(s):  
W. Shuhong ◽  
L. He ◽  
G. Wenlong ◽  
S. Dehuang ◽  
Q. Yu ◽  
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