Method for in-depth profile control and displacement of low-permeability oil reservoirs

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10920127-B2
Application number	US-201916251609-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 18, 2019
Priority date	Jul 31, 2017
Publication date	Feb 16, 2021
Grant date	Feb 16, 2021

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for in-depth profile control and displacement of low-permeability oil reservoirs, comprising: sequentially injecting a flexible and elastic particle-containing pre-slug, a polymer microsphere-containing main slug and a flexible and elastic particle-containing protective slug into an oil layer, and the three slugs have a volume ratio of total injection amount of 1-2:6-8:1-2. The invention provides a method for in-depth profile control and displacement by using styrene-based flexible and elastic particles in combination with the polyacrylamide polymer microsphere, wherein the flexible elastic particles can block cracks and large pore channels of the oil layer, and the polymer microsphere can displace the remaining oil in the oil layer. In the present invention, different slugs of profile control and displacement system are combined to achieve the objective of blocking cracks and large pore channels, displacing crude oil, and improving oil well recovery.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for in-depth profile control and displacement of low-permeability oil reservoirs, wherein the method comprises:
sequentially injecting:
(a) a flexible and elastic particle-containing pre-slug,
(b) a polymer microsphere-containing main slug comprising 0.25%-5% of a polymer microsphere and 95%-99.75% of water, based on 100% of the total weight of the polymer microsphere-containing main slug, and
(c) a flexible and elastic particle-containing protective slug into an oil layer,

wherein each of the flexible and elastic particle-containing pre-slug, the polymer microsphere-containing main slug and the flexible and elastic particle-containing protective slug has a respective total injection amount, and a volume ratio between the respective total injection amount of each slug is 1-2:6-8:1-2;
wherein the polymer microsphere of the polymer microsphere-containing main slug is synthesized by reacting 18%-25% of co-monomers, 0.2%-0.3% of a crosslinker, 0.1%-0.2% of an initiator, 7.5%-8.5% of a dispersant, 40%-45% of an external phase, and balance of water as an internal phase by inverse emulsion polymerization, based on 100% of the total weight of raw materials used, and
wherein the co-monomer is one or more of 2-acrylamide-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid and acrylamide; the crosslinker is N,N-methylenebisacrylamide; the initiator is ammonium persulfate; the dispersant is one or more of Span 60 and Tween 60; and the external phase is a white oil.

2. The method for in-depth profile control and displacement of low-permeability oil reservoirs according to claim 1 , wherein each of a daily injection amount of the flexible and elastic particle-containing pre-slug and a daily injection amount of the flexible and elastic particle-containing protective slug is 1.5-2.5 times by volume of a daily water injection amount of a target well for profile control and displacement, respectively.

3. The method for in-depth profile control and displacement of low-permeability oil reservoirs according to claim 1 , wherein a daily injection amount of the polymer microsphere-containing main slug is 1.0-1.5 times by volume of a daily water injection amount of a target well for profile control and displacement.

4. The method for in-depth profile control and displacement of low-permeability oil reservoirs according to claim 1 , wherein the cumulative total injection amount of the flexible and elastic particle-containing pre-slug, the polymer microsphere-containing main slug and the flexible and elastic particle-containing protective slug is 0.1-0.3 times by volume of the controlled pore volume in the oil layer of the target well for profile control and displacement.

5. The method for in-depth profile control and displacement of low-permeability oil reservoirs according to claim 1 , wherein the flexible and elastic particle-containing pre-slug, the polymer microsphere-containing main slug and the flexible and elastic particle-containing protective slug have a volume ratio of total injection amount of 1:8:1.

6. The method for in-depth profile control and displacement of low-permeability oil reservoirs according to claim 1 , wherein the flexible and elastic particle-containing pre-slug comprises 0.2%-0.3% of the flexible and elastic particles, 0.05%-0.1% of polyacrylamide and balance of water, based on 100% of the total weight of the flexible and elastic particle-containing pre-slug.

7. The method for in-depth profile control and displacement of low-permeability oil reservoirs according to claim 6 , wherein the flexible and elastic particles are produced by polymerizing 49.85%-49.95% of styrene and 49.85%-49.95% of butadiene as main agents, with 0.1%-0.3% of benzoyl peroxide as an initiator, based on 100% of the total weight of raw materials used, to obtain a colloid, and then pelleting the colloid,
wherein the polymerization is carried out at 80-85° C. for 70-100 mins.

8. The method for in-depth profile control and displacement of low-permeability oil reservoirs according to claim 7 , wherein the flexible and elastic particles in the flexible and elastic particle-containing pre-slug have a particle size of 3-6 mm and an elongation at break of 1000%-1300%.

9. The method for in-depth profile control and displacement of low-permeability oil reservoirs according to claim 1 , wherein the flexible and elastic particle-containing protective slug comprises 0.3%-0.4% of the flexible and elastic particles, 0.1%-0.15% of polyacrylamide and balance of water, based on 100% of the total weight of the flexible and elastic particle-containing protective slug.

10. The method for in-depth profile control and displacement of low-permeability oil reservoirs according to claim 9 , wherein the flexible and elastic particles are produced by polymerizing 49.85%-49.95% of styrene and 49.85%-49.95% of butadiene as main agents, with 0.1%-0.3% of benzoyl peroxide as an initiator, based on 100% of the total weight of raw materials used, to obtain a colloid, and then pelleting the colloid,
wherein the polymerization is carried out at 80-85° C. for 70-100 mins.

11. The method for in-depth profile control and displacement of low-permeability oil reservoirs according to claim 10 , wherein the flexible and elastic particles in the flexible and elastic particle-containing protective slug have a particle size of 3-6 mm and an elongation at break of 1000%-1300%.

Assignees

• Petrochina Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wu Tianjiang
• Zheng Mingke
• Li Xianwen
• Yang Haien
• Li Xiaorong
• Tang Fan
• Xue Fangfang
• Chen Ronghuan
• Zhang Rong
• Zheng Lijun
• Xu Chunmei
• Liu Baoche
• Yi Ping
• Zhu Jiajie
• Bi Weiyu

Classifications

• C08F2/32 Primary

  Polymerisation in water-in-oil emulsions · CPC title

• C08F222/385

  Monomers containing two or more (meth)acrylamide groups, e.g. N,N'-methylenebisacrylamide · CPC title

• C08F220/585

  and containing other heteroatoms, e.g. 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid [AMPS] · CPC title

• C08F220/56

  Acrylamide; Methacrylamide · CPC title

• C09K8/588 Primary

  characterised by the use of specific polymers {(polymeric surfactants C09K8/584)} · CPC title