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Calculation Plate Used to value CCUS-EOR Potential in the Oil-Water Transition Zone

Version 1 : Received: 28 August 2023 / Approved: 28 August 2023 / Online: 29 August 2023 (03:52:22 CEST)

How to cite: Sun, Y.; Gao, M.; Qian, Y.; Zhou, T.; Yin, H.; Li, Z.; Qi, X. Calculation Plate Used to value CCUS-EOR Potential in the Oil-Water Transition Zone. Preprints 2023, 2023081883. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.1883.v1 Sun, Y.; Gao, M.; Qian, Y.; Zhou, T.; Yin, H.; Li, Z.; Qi, X. Calculation Plate Used to value CCUS-EOR Potential in the Oil-Water Transition Zone. Preprints 2023, 2023081883. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.1883.v1

Abstract

Due to its economic benefits and the ability to reduce carbon emissions on a large scale, the CCUS-EOR project has been widely promoted and implemented globally. By using carbon dioxide flooding, oil water transition zone reservoirs that were once considered worthless may have new potential for development because of its rich geological reserves and high quality carbon sequestration conditions. Unlike water flooded layer, the oil in the TZ is unsaturated rather than residual oil after water flooding, which would lead to special oil-water seepage law of initial oil saturation. It is necessary to clarify special oil-water seepage law of oil-water transition zone to evaluate its production & storage potential. In this paper, we present a series of experiments to characterize the relationship between residual oil saturation and initial oil saturation. Cores in four different permeability and oil in four different viscosity are used to simulate different reservoir conditions, and that CO2 immiscible flooding experiments for each cores permeability and oil viscosity are performed with four different initial oil saturation. A total of 36 sets of CO2 flooding experiment data are used to draw the initial oil saturation & residual oil saturation chart. The results show that the residual oil saturation depends on the initial oil saturation rather than constant under certain conditions of core and oil. Under the condition of low permeability and high oil viscosity, the influence of initial oil saturation on residual oil saturation is relatively strong. The initial oil saturation & residual oil saturation chart can accurately calculate the residual oil saturation, initial water cut and final recovery based on the core permeability, oil viscosity and the initial oil saturation which is the first time to put forward this kind of chart and of the great significance to evaluate the recovery potential of the TZ.

Keywords

transition zone; initial oil saturation; residual oil saturation; permeability; oil viscosity

Subject

Engineering, Energy and Fuel Technology

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