Surfactant slug assisting CO2 huff and puff in enhancing shale oil reservoir recovery

Abstract

Focusing on problems of rapid production decline and poor development effect after volume fracturing of the shale oil reservoir, a production method of SC-HNP (surfactant slug assisting CO2 huff and puff) was proposed. Taking CQ block (CQ, the reservoir block name) as an example, laboratory experiments were carried out using typical oil samples and core samples, and a numerical simulation model of SC-HNP was established based on the experimental results. The production performance and oil recovery mechanism were analyzed, and the oil production by SC-HNP of a typical well was predicted. The results showed that (1) the oil recovery degree of the surfactant imbibition experiment is 34.5%, showing good imbibition oil recovery effect. CO2 has good swelling effect and viscosity reduction ability to the oil. (2) SC-HNP combines the effects of the surfactant and CO2, and it has the best replenishing formation energy ability and the highest oil production level. Its improved recovery degree is about 2.4% (one cycle), showing the best development effect. (3) Compared with SF-HNP (surfactant huff and puff), SC-HNP can improve the oil displacement effect in the far-well fractured area, and compared with CO2-HNP (CO2 huff and puff), SC-HNP can improve the oil displacement effect in the near-well fractured area. (4) Using SC-HNP, it is predicted that the oil recovery degree of well CQP-32 (CQP-32, the well name) can be increased by 1.84%, which significantly improves the development effect, and the CO2 storage percent is about 32%.