Journal of Tropical Oceanography ›› 2017, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (5): 72-82.doi: 10.11978/2017005CSTR: 32234.14.2017005

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Simulation of CO2-EOR-S in an offshore sandstone reservoir with strong bottom water

Xueyan LIU1,2(), Pengchun LI1, Di ZHOU1, Jiemin LU3, Guanghao CHEN1   

  1. 1. CAS Key Laboratory of Ocean and Marginal Sea Geology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou 510301, China
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
    3. Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas 78758, USA
  • Received:2017-01-06 Revised:2017-03-28 Online:2017-09-20 Published:2017-09-22
  • About author:

    Author:QIU Chunhua.E-mail: qiuchh3@mail. sysu.edu.cn

  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China (41372256);KeyLogic Project of U.S. Department of Energy

Abstract:

CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery and Sequestration (CO2-EOR-S) is currently the most effective and economic technology for reducing CO2 emission from fossil fuels. To evaluate the CO2-EOR-S potential of M10 oil reservoir in the HZ21-1 oil field, we conducted a compositional simulation using Petrel and CMG-GEM reservoir simulators. We constructed a geological (including structures and facies) model first and then matched the oil production history and simulated CO2 injection in nine cases with different well patterns and bottom pressures. The results show that 1) the ratio of case number under miscible, near-miscible cases and immiscible conditions is 4︰3︰2, among which miscible flooding has the highest recovery factor (5.48%~8.73%) than the others and the Miscible Minimum Pressure (MMP) in M10 reservoir is about 31 MPa so that CO2 and oil could be near-miscible with oil under the condition of initial formation pressure; 2) the best case after CO2 injected five years is two injection wells with injection pressure at about 41 MPa, increasing oil recovery factor and cumulative oil production from 34.7% to 43.4% and 2.22×106 to 2.78×106 m3 respectively, while decreasing water cut from 96% to 59% with CO2 storage volume of 6.7 Mt, which takes 73% of the whole CO2 injection volume (9.2 Mt), and having a rate of CO2 storage on 1.33×106 t·a-1; 3) when CO2 was injected through one single injection well, the effects on oil recovery factor and CO2 storage volume would be a negative relation while it would turn to a positive relation through two injection wells, which means more injection wells would increase oil recovery factor and carbon storage volume synchronously.

Key words: offshore oil reservoir with strong bottom water, CO2-EOR-S, miscible flooding, minimum miscible pressure, component modeling