Residual oil start-up mechanism of polymer/surface dual flooding after polymer flooding in medium-high permeability reservoir

¹ Oil Production Technology Institute, Dagang Oilfield, CNPC, Tianjin, China
² Key Laboratory of Nano-chemistry, CNPC, Tianjin, China
³ Enterprise Key Laboratory of Tertiary Oil Recovery and Oilfield Chemical, CNPC, Tianjin, China
⁴ Exploration and Development Research Institute, Tuha Oilfield, CNPC, Xinjiang, China

^* Corresponding author: cy_zhangnan@petrochina.com.cn

Abstract

The remaining oil distribution and displacement mechanism of poly/surface dual flooding stage in medium and high permeability reservoir are not clear. In this paper, the reservoir conditions in Gangxi Area 3 of Dagang Oilfield were taken as the research object. Based on nuclear magnetic resonance and large model physical simulation experiment, the characterization of micro and macro residual oil start-up mechanism and enhanced oil recovery experiment were carried out respectively after polymer flooding poly/surface binary flooding. The experimental results suggest that polymer-surfactant flooding could increase the oil displacement efficiency by 12-29% after polymer flooding, and the contribution of porous to recovery degree is in the order of medium pore, large pore, and small pore. When the surfactant concentration is higher than 0.25%, the increase of oil displacement efficiency tends to be stable, and further enhancing oil recovery requires the expansion of sweep volume. Physical model experiments results show that medium permeability layer has the highest contribution to the recovery degree in the chemical flooding stage, and the displacement mechanism is mainly based on the synergistic effect of expanding sweep volume and improving displacement efficiency. The contribution of low permeability layer to recovery degree is next, and the displacement mechanism is mainly to expand sweep volume. The high permeability layer has the lowest contribution to the recovery degree, and the oil displacement mechanism is mainly to improve the oil displacement efficiency.