Journal
ACS OMEGA
Volume 6, Issue 38, Pages 24663-24671Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c03366
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U20B6003]
- Science Foundation of China University of Petroleum, Beijing [2462020YXZZ032]
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The new polymer viscosity reducer enhances heavy oil reservoir development through five microscopic processes in a visual filling model, influencing the interfacial properties of oil, water, and rock, improving flow efficiency, and increasing oil recovery rates.
Chemical flooding is an effective method to enhance heavy oil recovery, and the viscosity reducer is often injected into the formation as the main reagent of chemical flooding. In the paper, a novel polymer viscosity reducer (FMP) was used to inject into a visual filling model, which can simulate the reservoir. The mechanism of enhancing heavy oil recovery by FMP is studied by macroscopic and microscopic analysis methods. The model can obtain macroscopic images and production data, including pressure, water cut, and oil recovery. The model can observe some microscopic processes, which can analyze the mechanism of enhanced oil recovery. Five processes of emulsifying viscosity reduction are summarized by using microscopic images: membrane oil removal, gradual emulsification, flocculation into droplet groups, active dispersion, and agglomeration into droplets. The FMP molecules can affect the interfacial properties of oil, water, and rock to enhance the wishing oil efficiency. Moreover, the decrease in the stability of the oil-water interface leads to flocculation into droplet groups and agglomeration into droplets occurring at the throat of the strong seepage zone, which increases the sweep coefficient from 0.56 to 0.90. The oil recovery has increased from 18 to 34%, which indicates that the FMP flooding obviously enhances the effect of heavy oil reservoir development.
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