METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZATION OF DEVELOPMENT BY CARBON DIOXIDE INJECTION BASED ON INCOMPLETE MISCIBILITY CHARACTERISTICS
20250297539 ยท 2025-09-25
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Inventors
- Hao Chen (Beijing, CN)
- Xiliang LIU (Beijing, CN)
- Borui LI (Beijing, CN)
- Weiming CHENG (Beijing, CN)
- Qing Chang (Beijing, CN)
- Ruwei ZHANG (Beijing, CN)
- Zhizhen LIN (Beijing, CN)
- Mingsheng ZUO (Beijing, CN)
- Baoxi YANG (Beijing, CN)
- Xinyu QI (Beijing, CN)
- Feng LUO (Beijing, CN)
- Linxi YANG (Beijing, CN)
- Wen Liu (Beijing, CN)
- Pengbo LI (Beijing, CN)
Cpc classification
E21B43/30
FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
E21B2200/20
FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
International classification
Abstract
A method and a system for optimization of development by carbon dioxide injection based on incomplete miscibility characteristics are provided, where the method includes following steps: building a three-dimensional reservoir model based on laboratory experiments and reservoir values, where the three-dimensional reservoir model includes: a fluid model and a reservoir model; based on the three-dimensional reservoir model, obtaining incomplete miscibility characteristics of reservoir development by carbon dioxide injection; and completing whole life cycle optimization development of carbon dioxide injection based on the incomplete miscibility characteristics.
Claims
1. An optimization method for development by carbon dioxide injection based on incomplete miscibility characteristics, comprising following steps: building a three-dimensional reservoir model based on laboratory experiments and reservoir values, wherein the three-dimensional reservoir model comprises: a fluid model and a reservoir model; based on the three-dimensional reservoir model, obtaining incomplete miscibility characteristics of reservoir development by carbon dioxide injection; a method for obtaining the incomplete miscible characteristics comprises following steps: obtaining a simulation result diagram based on the three-dimensional reservoir model; calculating key characterization parameters based on the simulation result diagram; and based on the key characterization parameters, obtaining the incomplete miscibility characteristics; wherein the key characterization parameters comprise: carbon dioxide component sweep coefficient, carbon dioxide phase sweep coefficient, miscibility degree, viscosity reduction index and density reduction index; using these parameters to comprehensively judge the incomplete miscibility characteristics of the reservoir development by carbon dioxide injection; defining a front end with a carbon dioxide concentration of 0 as a component front, and an area with carbon dioxide migrating and sweeping as a component sweep area; defining a front end of a crude oil-carbon dioxide system with an interfacial tension of 0.001 mN.Math.m.sup.1 as a phase front, and a swept area as a phase sweep area; defining a position with a formation pressure equal to a minimum miscible pressure of carbon dioxide and crude oil between injection-production wells as a miscible pressure front; defining an area surrounded by a pressure front, the component front and the phase front as a miscible area, wherein a swept range is the miscibility degree; defining the carbon dioxide component sweep coefficient as a ratio of a swept volume of the component front to a controlled volume of a well pattern; defining the carbon dioxide phase sweep coefficient as a ratio of a swept volume of the phase front to the controlled volume of the well pattern; defining the viscosity reduction index as a degree of crude oil viscosity reduction in an area between the component front and the phase front; defining the density reduction index as a degree of crude oil density reduction in the area between the component front and the phase front; and completing whole life cycle optimization development of carbon dioxide injection based on the incomplete miscibility characteristics; a method for completing the whole life cycle optimization development of carbon dioxide injection comprises: injection mode optimization, well pattern spacing optimization and water alternating gas system optimization; wherein, well pattern optimization: performing result simulation of different well patterns based on a numerical simulation software, analyzing migration laws of the miscible pressure front, the phase front and the component front in incomplete miscible displacement in operation results, as well as reservoir recovery, cumulative oil production, oil exchange ratio and storage ratio, and comprehensively formulating the well pattern optimization for the carbon dioxide injection development considering incomplete miscible displacement characteristics.
2. The optimization method for the development by the carbon dioxide injection based on the incomplete miscibility characteristics according to claim 1, wherein a method for building the fluid model comprises: based on the laboratory experiments, analyzing and obtaining fluid components of formation crude oil; defining adjustable variables based on the fluid components of the formation crude oil, wherein the adjustable variables comprise component interaction coefficient, molar mass of C.sub.30+ and crude oil viscosity; and fitting experimental data of numerical simulation and physical simulation based on the adjustable variables, and outputting the fluid model when a simulation accuracy is greater than 95%.
3. The optimization method for the development by the carbon dioxide injection based on the incomplete miscibility characteristics according to claim 1, wherein the reservoir model is built based on reservoir numerical simulation, and reservoir parameters are set after the reservoir model is built; and the reservoir parameters comprise: reservoir depth, temperature, reservoir pressure, reservoir porosity, reservoir permeability, reservoir oil saturation, reservoir temperature gradient, reservoir pressure coefficient and reservoir saturation pressure.
4. An optimization system for development by carbon dioxide injection based on incomplete miscibility characteristics, wherein the system is used for realizing the method according to claim 1, comprising: a building module, a calculation module and an optimization module; the building module is used for building the three-dimensional reservoir model based on the laboratory experiments and the oil reservoir values, wherein the three-dimensional reservoir model comprises: the fluid model and the reservoir model; the calculation module is used for obtaining the incomplete miscibility characteristics of the reservoir development by carbon dioxide injection based on the three-dimensional reservoir model; a process of obtaining the incomplete miscible characteristics comprises: obtaining the simulation result diagram based on the three-dimensional reservoir model; calculating the key characterization parameters based on the simulation result diagram; and based on the key characterization parameters, obtaining the incomplete miscibility characteristics; wherein the key characterization parameters comprise: the carbon dioxide component sweep coefficient, the carbon dioxide phase sweep coefficient, the miscibility degree, the viscosity reduction index and the density reduction index; using these parameters to comprehensively judge the incomplete miscibility characteristics of the reservoir development by carbon dioxide injection; defining the front end with the carbon dioxide concentration of 0 as the component front, and the area with the carbon dioxide migrating and sweeping as the component sweep area; defining the front end of the crude oil-carbon dioxide system with the interfacial tension of 0.001 mN.Math.m.sup.1 as the phase front, and the swept area as the phase sweep area; defining the position with the formation pressure equal to the minimum miscible pressure of carbon dioxide and crude oil between the injection-production wells as the miscible pressure front; defining the area surrounded by the pressure front, the component front and the phase front as the miscible area, wherein the swept range is the miscibility degree; defining the carbon dioxide component sweep coefficient as the ratio of the swept volume of the component front to the controlled volume of the well pattern; defining the carbon dioxide phase sweep coefficient as the ratio of the swept volume of the phase front to the controlled volume of the well pattern; defining the viscosity reduction index as the degree of crude oil viscosity reduction in the area between the component front and the phase front; defining the density reduction index as the degree of crude oil density reduction in the area between the component front and the phase front; the optimization module is used for completing the whole life cycle optimization development of carbon dioxide injection based on the incomplete miscibility characteristics; the method for completing the whole life cycle optimization development of carbon dioxide injection comprises: the injection mode optimization, the well pattern spacing optimization and the water alternating gas system optimization.
5. The optimization system for the development by the carbon dioxide injection based on the incomplete miscibility characteristics according to claim 4, wherein a workflow of the building module comprises: based on the laboratory experiments, analyzing and obtaining fluid components of formation crude oil; defining adjustable variables based on the fluid components of the formation crude oil, wherein the adjustable variables comprise component interaction coefficient, molar mass of C.sub.30+ and crude oil viscosity; and fitting experimental data of numerical simulation and physical simulation based on the adjustable variables, and outputting the fluid model when a simulation accuracy is greater than 95%.
6. The optimization system for the development by the carbon dioxide injection based on the incomplete miscibility characteristics according to claim 5, wherein a workflow of the building module further comprises: building the reservoir model based on reservoir numerical simulation, and setting reservoir parameters after the reservoir model is built, wherein the reservoir parameters comprise: reservoir depth, temperature, reservoir pressure, reservoir porosity, reservoir permeability, reservoir oil saturation, reservoir temperature gradient, reservoir pressure coefficient and reservoir saturation pressure.
Description
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[0034] In order to explain the embodiments of the present disclosure or the technical solution in the prior art more clearly, the drawings needed in the embodiments will be briefly introduced below. Apparently, the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present disclosure. For one of ordinary skill in the art, other drawings may be obtained according to these drawings without paying creative labor:
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[0067] In the following, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure will be clearly and completely described with reference to the attached drawings. Apparently, the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present disclosure, but not all the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present disclosure, all other embodiments obtained by one of ordinary skill in the art without creative effort belong to the protection scope of the present disclosure.
[0068] In order to make the above objects, features and advantages of the present disclosure more obvious and easier to understand, the present disclosure will be further described in detail with the attached drawings and specific embodiments.
Embodiment 1
[0069] A schematic diagram of the method flow of this embodiment is shown in
[0071] In this embodiment, the three-dimensional reservoir model includes a fluid model and a reservoir model, where the method of building the fluid model includes: based on laboratory experiments, analyzing and obtaining the fluid components of formation crude oil; based on the fluid components of formation crude oil, defining adjustable variables, where the adjustable variables include: component interaction coefficient, molar mass of C.sub.30+ and crude oil viscosity; and based on the adjustable variables, fitting the experimental data of numerical simulation and physical simulation, and outputting the fluid model when the simulation accuracy is greater than 95%.
[0072] Specifically, as one of the implementations, the steps include: [0073] opening the Wionprop module in the numerical simulation software computer modelling group (CMG) to create a basic fluid model, opening Component Selection/Properties, selecting fluid components from the component library to create a component table according to the component data obtained from the experiment, and then opening Composition to input the crude oil composition and the molar fraction of injected fluid; opening the menu bar Calculations-Saturation Pressure, and inputting the fluid saturation pressure of 17.33 megapascal (MPa) and the experimental temperature of 126.7 C.; opening the Lab in the menu bar, inputting three experimental data of laboratory experiments (constant composition expansion experiment, multi-stage degassing experiment and gas injection expansion experiment) into the table, and clicking Run to get the basic fluid model.
[0074] After importing the data to create the basic fluid model, the experiments that need to be fitted are added to the Regression Parameter one by one to form a tree diagram, in which the adjustable variables are defined, and HcIntCoeExp-1 is selected as the interaction coefficient, and the parameters such as temperature, pressure and volume of C.sub.30+ are all set as adjustable variables, and the viscosity is calculated by Pedersen model; the coefficients and exponents of all JST viscosity correlations are selected in Viscosity Parameters, Run is clicked to start the operation, and then the results are output in Simulation Results. As shown in
[0075] A reservoir model is established based on reservoir numerical simulation, and reservoir parameters are set after the reservoir model building is completed; reservoir parameters include: reservoir depth, temperature, reservoir pressure, reservoir porosity, reservoir permeability, reservoir oil saturation, reservoir temperature gradient, reservoir pressure coefficient and reservoir saturation pressure.
[0076] Specifically, based on the GEM module of the reservoir numerical simulation software CMG, the number of grids is set to 20203=1200, and each grid is 50 m50 m, and each grid is 33 encrypted. The reservoir physical parameters are as follows: the reservoir depth is 3500 m, the reservoir temperature is 126 C., the initial reservoir pressure is 55.0 MPa, and the reservoir porosity is 13.9%, the reservoir permeability is 8 milliDarcy (mD), the reservoir oil saturation is 60%, and the viscosity of formation crude oil is 1.98 milliPascal per second (mPa.Math.s). The density of ground degassed crude oil is 0.862 gram per cubic centimeter (g/cm.sup.3). The volume coefficient of formation crude oil is 1.14, and the viscosity of formation crude oil is 0.44-1.25 mPa.Math.s. The geothermal gradient of block temperature and pressure test is 3.76 degrees Celsius per hectometer ( C./hm), the pressure coefficient is 1.44, the original formation pressure is 55.0 MPa, and the reservoir saturation pressure is 17.3 MPa. The established three-dimensional reservoir model is shown in
[0078] Based on the three-dimensional reservoir model, the simulation result diagram is obtained; based on the simulation result diagram, the key characterization parameters are calculated; based on the key characterization parameters, the incomplete miscibility characteristics are obtained. Among them, the key characterization parameters include: carbon dioxide component sweep coefficient, carbon dioxide phase sweep coefficient, miscibility degree, viscosity reduction index and density reduction index; and the incomplete miscibility characteristics in reservoir development by carbon dioxide injection are comprehensively judged by using these parameters. In this embodiment, the front end with carbon dioxide concentration of 0 is defined as the component front, and the area with carbon dioxide migrating and sweeping is defined as the component sweep area; the front end of a crude oil-carbon dioxide system with an interfacial tension of 0.001 millinewton per meter (mN.Math.m.sup.1) is defined as the phase front, and the swept area is defined as the phase sweep area; the position with the formation pressure equal to the minimum miscible pressure of carbon dioxide and crude oil between injection-production wells is defined as the miscible pressure front; the area surrounded by the pressure front, the component front and the phase front is defined as the miscible area, and the swept range is the miscibility degree; the carbon dioxide component sweep coefficient is defined as the ratio of the swept volume of component front to the controlled volume of well pattern; the carbon dioxide phase sweep coefficient is defined as the ratio of the swept volume of phase front to the controlled volume of well pattern; the viscosity reduction index is defined as the degree of crude oil viscosity reduction in the area between the component front and the phase front; the density reduction index is defined as the degree of crude oil density reduction in the area between the component front and the phase front.
[0079] Specifically, based on the output results of the numerical simulation software CMG, the migration results of pressure front, carbon dioxide phase front and carbon dioxide component front, as well as the viscosity change and density change results of crude oil are obtained, as shown in
[0080] Based on the component sweep, phase sweep degree and the percentage of miscible cells in the total cells in the three-dimensional reservoir model, the component sweep coefficient, phase sweep coefficient and miscibility degree, as well as the reduction degree of viscosity and density of crude oil in the process of carbon dioxide injection development may be obtained to calculate the viscosity reduction index and the density reduction index, and comprehensively characterize the incomplete miscible displacement characteristics of carbon dioxide in the reservoir, as shown in Table 1.
TABLE-US-00001 TABLE 1 Component Density Viscosity Phase sweep sweep Miscibility reduction reduction coefficient, % coefficient, % degree, % index index 69 61 77 0.51 0.57 [0081] S3. Based on the incomplete miscibility characteristics, the whole life cycle optimization development of carbon dioxide injection is completed.
{circle around (1)} Optimization of Injection Mode
[0082] According to the characteristic equation of injection capacity change, carbon dioxide continuous drive and carbon dioxide water alternating gas drive are compared.
[0083] where, I represents the injection capacity, unit: cubic meter per day per megapascal (m.sup.3/(d.Math.MPa)); Q.sub.t represents the injection speed, unit: cubic meter per day (m.sup.3.Math.d.sup.1); Pr represents the original formation pressure, unit: MPa; Pi represents the injection pressure at any time, unit: MPa.
[0084] The injection capacity is characterized by total water/gas injection rate, formation pressure and other parameters. As shown in
{circle around (2)} Well Spacing Optimization of Well Pattern
[0085] Well pattern optimization: based on numerical simulation software, the results of different well patterns are simulated, and the migration laws of miscible pressure front, phase front and component front in incomplete miscible displacement in operation results, as well as parameters such as reservoir recovery, cumulative oil production, oil exchange ratio and storage ratio, are analyzed, and the well pattern optimization of carbon dioxide injection development considering the incomplete miscible displacement characteristics is comprehensively formulated.
[0086] Specifically, based on the established homogeneous model, the type of carbon dioxide drive well pattern is optimized, and three common regular well pattern conditions, namely, five-spot well pattern, inverted seven-spot well pattern and inverted nine-spot well pattern, are respectively considered, and one injection well is set in each of the three well pattern conditions, and the production wells are 4, 6, and 8 wells as shown in
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[0089] Considering the recovery, oil exchange ratio, storage ratio and the incomplete miscible displacement characteristics based on three kinds of front migration laws comprehensively, the final optimization result is to adopt five-spot well pattern for development.
[0090] Well spacing optimization: when the pressure front contacts with the component front, that is, the reservoir begins to be in an incomplete miscible state, three kinds of front migration laws are obtained, the front migration laws are analyzed, the regression speed of the miscible pressure front, carbon dioxide sweep coefficient and miscibility degree are judged, and the characteristic data of the maximum limit well spacing and the oil recovery rate well spacing are comprehensively considered for the well spacing optimization based on the incomplete miscible displacement characteristics of carbon dioxide.
[0091] Specifically, as shown in
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TABLE-US-00002 TABLE 2 Component Density Viscosity sweep Phase sweep Miscibility reduction reduction Well pattern coefficient, % coefficient, % degree, % index index 500 250 m 86 84 74 0.89 0.92 700 350 m 79 77 65 0.85 0.88
{circle around (3)} Optimization of Water Alternating Gas System
[0093] When the carbon dioxide component front in the three-dimensional reservoir model migrates to the production wells, it is considered that there is a risk of carbon dioxide gas channeling, and the carbon dioxide gas channeling is suppressed by the water alternating gas system. The reasonable water-gas slug ratio is preliminarily calculated. Based on the numerical simulation software, different water alternating gas systems with different slug ratios and different slug sizes, etc., are carried out, three kinds of frontier migration laws, the parameters such as oil exchange ratio, recovery and gas-oil ratio of production wells in the operation results are analyzed, and the gas channeling suppression effect is comprehensively judged, so that the water alternating gas system is optimized based on the incomplete miscible displacement characteristics of carbon dioxide.
[0094] Specifically, based on the ideas of stabilizing formation pressure, limiting gas slug injection time and underground water-gas density, the following formulas are established to determine the reasonable interval of water-gas slug ratio, and the calculation method of water alternating gas system injection slug ratio is established, and the water-gas slug ratio is calculated to be 1-1.5.
[0095] Formula for expanding swept volume and improving flooding efficiency:
[0096] where r.sub.wgs represents the volume ratio of underground water-gas slug, unit: dimensionless; E.sub.Vw represents the plane sweep coefficient of water in a single plug, unit: dimensionless; E.sub.Vg represents the plane sweep coefficient of gas in a single plug, unit: dimensionless; r.sub.ipws represents the water drive injection-production ratio during water slug injection, unit: dimensionless; r.sub.ipgs represents the gas drive injection-production ratio during gas slug injection, unit: dimensionless.
[0097] Time relation of gas injection and water injection:
[0098] where .sub.g represents the underground density of the injected gas, unit: kilogram per cubic meter (kg.Math.m.sup.3); .sub.w represents the underground density of water phase, unit: kg.Math.m.sup.3; q.sub.inw represents the mass of water injected into the reservoir every day, unit: kg; q.sub.ing represents the mass of gas injected into the reservoir every day, unit: kilogram (kg); T.sub.w represents the water slug injection time in a single cycle, unit: day (d); T.sub.g represents the gas slug injection time in a single cycle, unit: d.
[0099] Formula for maintaining the peak period of effectiveness of gas breakthrough:
[0100] where n.sub.0 represents the number of oil wells, unit: wells; F.sub.gw represents the gas drive stimulation multiple, unit: dimensionless; q.sub.ow0 represents the single well production before gas injection, unit: ton per day (t/d); N.sub.0 represents the geological reserves at the beginning of gas injection, unit: ton (t); P.sub.wdd represents the allowable formation pressure drop during water slug injection in a single WAG period, unit: MPa; P.sub.wsd represents the formation pressure drop caused by unit recovery degree during water injection, unit: MPa; R.sub.Vgs represents the oil recovery rate of the gas injection layer during the peak period of gas drive effectiveness, unit: dimensionless.
[0101] Formula for preventing free gas from continuously channeling:
[0102] where, T.sub.btg represents the time taken for free gas phase breakthrough after gas breakthrough takes effect, unit: d; L.sub.sl represents the length of the main pipe, unit: m; T.sub.gsl represents the time taken for gas to flow through a given distance, unit: second (s).
[0103] The reasonable interval of water-gas slug ratio is:
[0104] where, .sub.sl represents the average porosity of the main pipe, unit: dimensionless; .sub.g represents the continuous gas phase viscosity, unit: Pascal second; gradP represents the injection-production pressure gradient, unit: Pascal per meter (Pa.Math.m.sup.1); Sg represents average gas saturation, unit: dimensionless; C.sub.kt represents the heterogeneity coefficient of the main pipe, unit: dimensionless.
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Embodiment 2
[0107] The present disclosure also provides an optimization system for development by carbon dioxide injection based on incomplete miscibility characteristics, including a building module, a calculation module and an optimization module; the building module is used for building a three-dimensional reservoir model based on laboratory experiments and reservoir values; the three-dimensional reservoir model includes: fluid model and reservoir model; the calculation module is used for obtaining the incomplete miscibility characteristics of reservoir development by carbon dioxide injection based on the three-dimensional reservoir model; and the optimization module is used for completing the whole life cycle optimization and development of carbon dioxide injection based on incomplete miscibility characteristics.
[0108] The workflow of the building module includes: analyzing and obtaining the fluid components of formation crude oil based on laboratory experiments; based on the fluid components of formation crude oil, defining the adjustable variables, where the adjustable variables include: component interaction coefficient, molar mass of C.sub.30+ and crude oil viscosity; based on adjustable variables, fitting the experimental data of numerical simulation and physical simulation, and outputting the fluid model when the simulation accuracy is greater than 95%.
[0109] The workflow of the building module also includes: building a reservoir model based on reservoir numerical simulation, and setting reservoir parameters after the reservoir model is built; reservoir parameters include: reservoir depth, temperature, reservoir pressure, reservoir porosity, reservoir permeability, reservoir oil saturation, reservoir temperature gradient, reservoir pressure coefficient and reservoir saturation pressure.
[0110] The above-mentioned embodiments only describe the preferred mode of the present disclosure, and do not limit the scope of the present disclosure. Under the premise of not departing from the design spirit of the present disclosure, various modifications and improvements made by ordinary technicians in the field to the technical solution of the present disclosure should fall within the protection scope of the present disclosure.