An Experimental Study of High-Pressure Microscopy and Enhanced Oil Recovery with Nanoparticle-Stabilised Foams in Carbonate Oil Reservoir
Author:
Bello Ayomikun1ORCID, Ivanova Anastasia1ORCID, Rodionov Alexander1, Aminev Timur1, Mishin Alexander1, Bakulin Denis1, Grishin Pavel1ORCID, Belovus Pavel2, Penigin Artem2, Kyzyma Konstantin3, Cheremisin Alexey1ORCID
Affiliation:
1. Center for Petroleum Science and Engineering, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, 121205 Moscow, Russia 2. Gazprom Neft STC LLC, 190000 Saint Petersburg, Russia 3. Gazprom Neft-Orenburg LLC, 460000 Orenburg, Russia
Abstract
Foams have been successfully implemented to overcome the challenges associated with gas-enhanced oil recovery (EOR) over time. Generally, the foam helps to increase the viscosity of the injected gas, which in turn improves the effectiveness of EOR. However, this technology has rarely been applied in the oilfield due to technological and economical limitations. It is widely considered that nanoparticles may be added to foam to enhance its performance in harsh reservoir conditions to overcome some of these limitations. In this study, we employed high-pressure microscopy (HPM) as an advanced technique to examine the stability of N2 and CO2 foams at reservoir conditions, both with and without nanoparticles. The experiments were conducted under vapour and supercritical conditions. Our results indicated that foams produced at 80% quality were more stable than foams produced at 50% quality because the bubble size was significantly smaller and the bubble count was higher. Additionally, foams under supercritical conditions (sc) exhibited greater stability than foams under vapour conditions. This is because at supercritical conditions, the high density of gases helps to strengthen the foam lamella by enhancing the intermolecular contacts between the gas and the hydrophobic part of the liquid phase. Furthermore, core flooding studies were performed to investigate their effect on oil displacement and mobility control in both real and artificial core samples. Rather than focusing on precise quantitative results, our objective was to assess the effect of foams on oil recovery qualitatively. The results indicated that foam injection could significantly increase displacement efficiency, as foam injection raised total displacement efficiency from an initial 48.9% to 89.7% in the artificial core sample. Similarly, in the real core model, CO2 foam injection was implemented as a tertiary recovery method, and a recovery factor of 28.91% was obtained. These findings highlight the potential benefits of foams for EOR purposes and their ability to mitigate early gas breakthrough, which was observed after injecting approximately 0.14 PV during scCO2 injection.
Funder
Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
Subject
Energy (miscellaneous),Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Control and Optimization,Engineering (miscellaneous),Building and Construction
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