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Changes of Rock Properties in CO2 Flooding

  • ZHAO Mingguo;YANG Yanzhen;YANG Hongyu
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  • 1. Key Laboratory of Enhanced Oil & Gas Recovery, Ministry Education, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing 163318, Heilongjiang Province, China;2. No. 6 Oil Production Plant, Petro China Changqing Oilfield Company Dingbian 718600, Shaanxi Province, China

Received date: 2013-03-28

  Revised date: 2013-05-31

  Online published: 2013-08-18

Abstract

CO2 flooding that is a kind of developed EOR technology with widely prospect of application, becomes the focus of attention in many countries. In the CO2 flooding, rock can react with CO2 dissolved in the water, which changes the pore structure and wettability of rock, and so on. In order to determine the change rule on pore structure and wettability of rock treatment of CO2 flooding, in this paper under the actual condition of daqing F reservoir, using the simulation of the actual reservoir conditions, the changes of rock properties for natural core treated by CO2 flooding are studied by the experimental methods of indoor research. The results show that as CO2 injected the rock is changed on pore structure, permeability and wettability, and so on. As the contact time of rock reacted with CO2 increases, the percentage of small pore and big pore increases, but the proportion of secondary porosity decreases, meanwhile the permeability and the hydrophilicity gradually increase. This result is caused by the release of CO2 that can lead to the acidifying effectreacting with the mineral composition on the pore surface of rock, and then change the rock pore structure and the mineral composition of the rock surface.

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ZHAO Mingguo;YANG Yanzhen;YANG Hongyu . Changes of Rock Properties in CO2 Flooding[J]. Science & Technology Review, 2013 , 31(23) : 50 -52 . DOI: 10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2013.23.008

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