Oil & Gas Geology ›› 2016, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (2): 272-275.doi: 10.11743/ogg20160217

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CO2-EOR in Chang 8 tight sandstone reservoir of Honghe oilfield in Ordos Basin

Zhang Benyan, Dang Wenbin, Wang Shaopeng, He Xuewen   

  1. Exploration and Development Research Institute, SINOPEC North China Company, Zhengzhou, Henan 450006, China
  • Received:2015-12-20 Revised:2016-02-24 Online:2016-04-08 Published:2016-04-29

Abstract: The Honghe oilfield in Ordos Basin has difficulty achieving effective development due to low formation pressure, quick production decline and low recovery efficiency during natural depletion.In addition, natural fractures are well developed in Chang 8 tight sandstone reservoir, making it difficult to carry out waterflooding due to serious water channeling and low efficiency.Various CO2-EOR experiments including PVT, minimum miscible pressure and CO2 flooding in fractured cores were performed to determine the feasibility of maintaining reservoir pressure via CO2 injection.The performance of CO2 puff-huff was also eveluated.The results show that the crude oil of Honghe oilfield swells significantly after CO2 injection.The diffusion between crude oil and CO2 gradually increased as the pressure grows.The measured miscible pressure of crude oil and CO2 is 17.34 MPa, lower than the initial formation pressure of Honghe oilfield, indicating that miscible flooding of CO2 is feasible.Multi-cycle CO2 huff-puff experiments show that an additional oil recovery factor of 3.14% can be achieved on the basis of 4.04% of natural depletion.A comprehensive evaluation of the experiment results indicates that CO2 injection is feasible in Chang 8 reservoir of Honghe oilfield.

Key words: CO2 huff-puff, complement producing energy, enhance oil recovery, tight sandstone, Yanchang Formation, Ordos Basin

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