Abstract
A reasonable displacement method is essential to improve the oil displacement efficiency of tight reservoirs. In this study, three different displacement methods were utilized on the tight core samples obtained from the Yanchang Formation Chang 8 and Chang 9 tight oil reservoirs: spontaneous imbibition displacement, various water flooding rate displacement and water flooding displacement after spontaneous imbibitions; furthermore, the oil utilization degree of the residual oil in various pores was discussed. The oil displacement efficiency of the spontaneous imbibitions was approximately 26.91% and 29.56% for the Chang 8 and Chang 9 samples, respectively. With an increasing water flooding rate, the oil displacement efficiency features an inverse “V”-like tendency, and a water flooding rate of 0.06 mL/min was the optimal value as; the oil displacement efficiency achieved was 63.56% and 60.27% for the Chang 8 and Chang 9, respectively. When compared with spontaneous imbibitions, at a displacement rate of 0.06 mL/min after spontaneous imbibition, the oil displacement efficiency could be further increased to 50.02% and 30.35%, respectively. The differences in the oil displacement efficiency using various displacement methods are primarily related to the degree of utilization of residual oil in various pores. The progressively refined pore classification method is used to study the degree of oil utilization in various pores, and the pores in the tight reservoir can be divided into four types: P1, P2, P3 and P4. Regarding the spontaneous imbibition displacement, the displacement of the residual oil is dominantly determined by the residual oil present in the P2 and P3 pores; as the residual oil massively accumulates in the P2 pores, the discharging of the residual oil in this part finally determines the oil displacement efficiency when the water flooding rates changed. At a water flooding rate of 0.06 mL/min after spontaneous imbibition, the oil utilization degree of residual oil in various pores is enhanced, particularly for the P2, P3, and P4 pores, and the pore structure contributes to the increase in the oil displacement efficiency. Using the progressively refined pore classification method, the complexity of the distribution of residual oil in tight reservoirs could be studied quantitatively and elaborately, and the results can efficiently guide the development of residual oil in tight oil reservoirs.
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Introduction
Low- and ultra-low-permeability tight oil reserves are abundant in China. These are attractive but difficult to develop. Nanoscale pores are developed in tight sandstone reservoir, leading to a poor reservoir quality, complex pore structure, and strong reservoir heterogeneity. A refined study on the distribution, occurrence states, occurrence quantity, and degree of tight oil use is essential to enhance tight oil production.
Conventional water flooding displacement is limited to tight sandstone reservoirs, and spontaneous imbibition is key for the enhancement of tight oil recovery. Studies on the spontaneous imbibition displacement of tight oil are currently abundant, and they primarily focus on theoretical derivation (Handy 1960; Cryer 1963; Krohn 1988), measurement methods (Li and Horne 2001; Ge et al. 2015; Gao and Hu 2016), and numerical simulation (Hammecker et al. 1993; Kresse and Hafner 1993; Constantinides and Payatakes 1996; Martic et al. 2002; Hatiboglu and Babadagli 2008; Palma et al. 2015; Khajepor et al. 2019), among others. Spontaneous imbibition includes both static and dynamic imbibition. For the former, the capillary force is the dominant driving force (Zeng et al. 2020), a positive relationship exists between the water adsorption volume and the square root of time (Handy 1960), and the water adsorption time is related to the pore structure (Mattax and Kyte 1962). Dynamic imbibition occurrences in the microfractures in tight sandstone reservoirs (Shen et al. 2016; Yang et al. 2016; Dai et al. 2019), molecular dynamics simulation (Kresse and Hafner 1993; Martic et al. 2002), Boltzmann simulation (Kresse and Hafner 1993; Hatiboglu and Babadagli 2008; Palma et al. 2015; Khajepor et al. 2019), and pore network simulation (Constantinides and Payatakes 1996) are effective methods for studying dynamic imbibition. During the production of tight oil in oilfields, the use of a reasonable water flooding displacement rate after spontaneous imbibition is an effective method for improving the oil displacement efficiency (Wang et al. 2018).
The characteristics of the pore structure are essential parameters that determine the distribution of residual oil and the mobility of fluid in a tight reservoir. Currently, various methods can be used to describe the pore structure of tight reservoirs, and low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is commonly used in unconventional oil and gas fields. NMR has an individual advantage for describing the micro-pore structure (such as the properties of the reservoir, pore throat characteristics, and pore size distribution), and the fluid in the pore (such as the volume of movable fluid, saturation of movable oil, and distribution of residual oil) (Hamada and AbuShanab 2008; Yang et al. 2013; Lai et al. 2018; Lyu et al. 2018a; Gao et al. 2019; Li et al. 2019; Wu et al. 2022). The pores in a tight reservoir can be classified according to the transverse relaxation time (T2), Peng et al. (2018) reported that the pores could be divided into micro-pore (T2 ≤ 30 ms), mesopore (30–90 ms), macropore (90–200 ms) and super macropore (T2 > 200 ms). According to the fluid movement in the pores, the pores can be classified into completely unmovable pores, partially movable pores, and completely movable pores (Wang et al. 2021). Four characteristic points in the NMR T2 spectrum were selected, and the pores were divided into nanopores, micro-pores, meso-pores and macropores (Dai et al. 2019). Using mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) and NMR, T2 can be transferred to the pore aperture, and the pore structure can be comprehensively described (Volokitin et al. 2001; Lyu et al. 2018b; Dai et al. 2019; Chen et al. 2020). The short components of T2 generally respond to pores with smaller sizes, and the long components of T2 respond to large pores in tight reservoirs (Wu et al. 2018). Using this method, the pores can be divided into microscale macropores (> 10 μm), microscale micro-pore (1–10 μm), submicro-pores (0.1–1 μm) and nanopores (< 0.1 μm) (Hu et al. 2020). The submicro-pores contribute to oil displacement efficiency, whereas the nanopores contribute to oil displacement via spontaneous imbibitions (Cheng et al. 2019). During the oil displacement procedures, oil occurrences in the microscale macropores contribute dominantly to the enhancement of oil recovery (Chen et al. 2020).
The pores in a tight reservoir exhibit self-similarity. Compared with classical European geometry, the fractal dimension can describe the heterogeneity and complexity of pores (Krohn and Thompson 1986; Krohn 1988; Jin et al. 2017a, b; Guo et al. 2019; Wang et al. 2019a, b, 2020, 2021; Wu et al. 2020, 2022; Yang et al. 2021). Pores with fractal dimensions below 2 and above 3 have a weak influence on the pore structure (Guo et al. 2019). Tight reservoirs can be divided into four types, according to the fractal dimension: Type I contains large amounts of dissolved-intergranular pores and original intergranular pores; type II features dissolved-intergranular pores; and the type III and IV contain dissolove-intragranular pores and micro-pores in clay matrix, respectively (Guo et al. 2020). The fractal dimension reflects the quality of the tight reservoirs. The smaller the pore aperture, the larger the fractal dimension, the more complex the pore structure, and the lower the permeability (Wang et al. 2019a, 2020). Wang et al. (2019b) reported that when the fractal dimension exceeded 2.586, a tight reservoir did not favor oil accumulation. If the fractal dimension was approximately 3, the porosity and permeability of the tight reservoir would decrease significantly (Wang et al. 2021). The fractal dimensions of submicro-pores and nanopores commonly reflect the complexity of the pores, and the fractal dimensions of the microscale macropores feature significantly influence the permeability of tight reservoirs (Hu et al. 2020). The fractal dimension of partially movable pores and completely movable pores contributes to enhancement of the oil displacement (Wu et al. 2020; Wang et al. 2021).
There have been numerous researches on the characteristics of the pore structures and movable fluid using NMR and fractal methods. However, the distribution characteristics of various types of pores using various displacement methods are unclear. In this study, Yanchang Formation tight sandstone samples were collected from the Ordos Basin, and oil displacement measurements using three different displacement methods (spontaneous imbibition, water flooding with various rates and water flooding after the spontaneous imbibitions) were carried out to investigate the oil displacement characteristics. Combined with the fractal theory, a new pore classification method of the residual oil, which is named as the progressively refined pore classification method, is provided. Furthermore, the oil utilization degree of tight oil in various pores was comprehensively studied.
Samples and method
Samples
Tight sandstone samples were collected from the Yanchang Formation Chang 8 member and Chang 9 members, northeast of the Ordos Basin, China. The Chang 8 and Chang 9 members are tight reservoirs. The porosity of Chang 8 member ranged from 6.71 to 14.56% (with an average of 9.81%), and its permeability varied from 0.05 × 10–3 μm2 to 2.99 × 10–3 μm2 (with an average of 0.74 × 10–3 μm2). As for the Chang 9 member, the porosity and permeability ranged from 12.3 to 15.18% (with an average of 13.81%) and 0.03 × 10–3 μm2 to 2.38 × 10–3 μm2 (0.53 × 10–3 μm2), respectively. The tight reservoirs featured strong heterogeneity, and the tight core samples were collected from a nearby region in the full-diameter cores at the horizontal stratification direction. The core samples were polished to ensure that the planeness of the end face was less than 0.01° prior to the measurements. The basic reservoir parameters are presented in Table 1.
Measurement procedures
Spontaneous imbibition measurements were carried out using a BLHH-6 N digital display of an electric thermal constant-temperature water bath, and the maximum temperature measured reached 100 ℃ with an accuracy of 0.5 ℃. Oil displacement measurements were conducted using an LDY-150 displacement seepage instrument, which included a flat flow pump, a thermostat, a core holding unit, and an intermediate container. The flow rate ranged from 0.01 mL/min to 10 mL/min and was controlled by the flat flow pump; the temperature of the thermostat was maintained at 100 ℃, and the temperature sensitivity could be controlled at 0.1 ℃; the maximum pressure in the core holding unit and intermediate container could reach 50 and 30 Mpa, respectively. Three intermediate containers, which contained simulated oil, an MnCl2 solution, and a simulated stratum water, were used in this study. The NMR measurements before and after the displacement measurements were carried out using a Geospec2/53 NMR spectrometer at a frequency of 4.40 MHz.
The simulated stratum water was a CaCl2 solution with a total dissolved solid concentration of 25,000 mg/L. The simulated oil was a mixture of crude oil and kerosene at a ratio of 1:3. The viscosity and density of the simulated oil were 6.55 mPa·s and 0.81 g/cm3, respectively. The spontaneous imbibition fluid and the displacement fluid were MnCl2 solutions with a total dissolved solid concentration of 25,000 mg/L; Mn2+ could weaken the relaxation time of hydrogen atoms in the water, effectively screening the hydrogen signal in the simulated stratum water. Using a temperature of 55 ℃ and core analysis practices (SY/T 5336–2006, Chinese standard), the oil displacement measurements were conducted. NMR measurements were performed according to the specifications for the measurement of the rock NMR parameters in the laboratory (SY/T 6490–2016, Chinese standard). The measurement procedures were as follows:
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The samples were washed oil with the dissolvent of benzene and alcohol (at a ratio of 3:1) for 10 days. Subsequently, the samples were dried at 105 ℃ for 48 h, and the mass and permeability of the samples were measured.
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The core samples were placed in an LDY-150 displacement seepage instrument at a flow rate of 0.05 mL/min. The samples were saturated with the simulated stratum water, and the core samples were weighed to determine their porosity.
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At a flow rate of 0.05 mL/min, the MnCl2 solution was used to displace the simulated stratum water; when the volume of the liquid from the point of exit reached to 3–4 times the pore volume, it was considered that the simulated stratum water was evidently displaced.
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At a flow rate of 0.05 mL/min, the simulated oil was used to displace the MnCl2 solution; when the liquid from the point was saturated with simulated oil, the primary oil and water distribution was considered to be established, and the samples subsequently subjected to NMR measurements.
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The displacement measurements of the core samples were carried out at a rate of 0.02 mL/min, and the NMR measurements were performed again after the displacement measurements; following that, the procedures (1) to (4) were repeated, and the displacement measurements at a rate of 0.04 mL/min, 0.06 mL/min and 0.08 mL/min were carried out.
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Procedures (1) to (4) were repeated, the core samples were set into the MnCl2 solution, and the NMR T2 measurements were performed at various spontaneous imbibition times.
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When the spontaneous imbibition measurements were completed, a reasonable displacement rate was exerted, and the NMR T2 measurements were performed again.
NMR theory
NMR relaxation occurs when material with a magnetic nucleus enters a magnetic field. The NMR relaxation time in the low-field NMR measurements can be divided into surface, bulk and diffusion relaxation times (Kenyon et al. 1988; Howard et al. 1993). The NMR relaxation time can be expressed as follows:
where T2B is the bulk relaxation time, T2S is the surface relaxation time, and T2D is the diffusion relaxation time, respectively. Typically, T2B and T2D can be ignored in porous media, and T2 can be approximately replaced with T2S (Guo and Kantzas 2009).
Surface relaxation commonly occurs at the interface of a solid and a liquid, and it is related to the pore structure of the porous medium. T2S can be expressed as follows:
where ρ is the relaxation rate of the particle surface, r is the pore aperture (μm); and c is a nondimensional parameter related to the pore structure.
Evidently, the different transverse relaxation times acquired from the NMR measurements could approximate the pore aperture in porous medium.
Fractal theory
Fractal theory can effectively evaluate the irregularity degree and self-similarity of pores (Mandelbrot 1979; Pfeifer and Avnir 1983; Yang et al. 2016; Garcia-Gutierrez et al. 2017). A larger fractal dimension indicates a complex pore structure and the strong heterogeneity of a reservoir (Zhang et al. 2017; Tang et al. 2019).
According to fractal theory (Mandelbrot et al. 1984), the number of pores with apertures greater than r can be expressed as follows:
where Nr is the number of pores with apertures greater than r; r is the pore aperture (μm); rmax is the maximum aperture of the pore (μm); A is the fractal factor, f(r) is the density function of the pore aperture (%); and D is the fractal dimension. Using the first derivation of Eq. (4),
where A′ is a proportionality constant. The cumulative volume of pores with apertures below r can expressed as follows:
where Vr is the cumulative volume of pores with an aperture below r (cm3), A″ is a constant of proportionality, and rmin is the minim aperture of the pore (μm).
The total pore volume of the pores could be presented as follows:
where Vt is the total pore volume (μm3). Then, the cumulative volume fraction for pores with apertures below r can be expressed as follows:
If rmin is far lower than rmax, then rmin can be ignored; and Eq. (8) can be simplified as follows:
Using Eq. (3), Eq. (9) can be modified as follows:
By logarithmically transforming Eq. (10), we obtain
Currently, Eq. (11) has been widely used to evaluate the fractal characteristics of pores in tight sandstones (Al-Mahrooqi et al. 2003; Shao et al. 2017).
Results
Spontaneous imbibition displacement of tight oil
Evidently, the residual oil of the NMR T2 spectrum for DBC81 and WQC91 samples has bimodal features before the spontaneous imbibition (SI) displacement. With continued SI displacement, the bimodal peaks tended to decrease, indicating that the residual oil in the cores began to discharge (Fig. 1). The oil displacement efficiency can be calculated with the decrease in the peak area at various spontaneous imbibitions times with Eq. (12). Owing to the continuous discharge of tight oil from the pores, the oil displacement efficiency increased (Fig. 2). The SI oil displacement efficiency was low during the initial 24 h; subsequently, it increased sharply and tended to lower after a total SI time of 144 h, when the total oil displacement efficiency reached 26.91%. For the WQC91 core sample, the oil displacement efficiency increased rapidly to 16.86% at an SI time of 24 h, followed by a slow increase. The total SI oil displacement efficiency was approximately 29.56%. Although the pore structures of DBC81 and WQC91 are similar, the various pore structure complexities may lead to different oil displacement characteristics (Fig. 2).
where A is the peak area of samples at the spontaneous imbibition time of 0 h; and Ai is the corresponding peak area of samples at other spontaneous imbibition times.
Displacement of tight oil at various water flooding rates
At a certain water flooding rate, the tight oil in the reservoir can be rapidly discharged. For the same tight oil reservoir, various water flooding rates may lead to different oil displacement efficiencies. In this study, the core samples were analyzed at four different water flooding rates: 0.02, 0.04, 0.06 and 0.08 mL/min.
The NMR T2 spectra of the residual oil for DBC82 and WQC92 were bimodal. At a water flooding rate of 0.02 mL/min, the amplitude of the left and right peaks of the core samples tended to decrease, particularly that for the right peak, indicating that the tight oil in the greater pores was discharged. When the water flooding rates increased, the left peak features decreased first and then increased, whereas the amplitude of the right peak tended to continuously decrease, and the degree of decrease in the left peak reached a maximum when the water flooding rate was 0.06 mL/min (Fig. 3). These results indicate that a continuous increase in the water flooding rates may not achieve the maximum oil displacement efficiency and that a reasonable water flooding rate would be optimal. The oil displacement efficiency at various water flooding rates had an inverse “V”-type shape (Fig. 4). The oil displacement efficiencies were 66.88% and 60.27% for the DBC82 and WQC92 core samples, respectively.
Water flooding after SI
After the SI, there was still a certain amount of residual oil in the core samples, and a reasonable water flooding rate of 0.06 mL/min can be ensured; thus, the water flooding rate of 0.06 mL/min was used for the DBC81 and WQC91 core samples after the SI. Evidently, the amplitude of the left and right peaks significantly decreases when the water flooding is launched after the SI (Fig. 5a), and the oil displacement efficiency finally reaches 50.02%. For WQC91, there was still a certain decrease in the amplitude of both the left and right peaks, while it was unapparent, and the oil displacement efficiency reached to approximately 30.35%.
Discussion
Pore type classification method
The pores in a porous medium features fractal characteristics, and the fractal method can distinguish the various pore types. In this study, a new pore type classification method called the progressively refined pore classification method is proposed. Before the fractal dimensions were calculated, some deviation data were deleted, particularly the T2 obtained in response to a signal with no amplitude.
Evidently, the core samples featured fractal characteristics (Fig. 6). Typically, the surface of a pore was irregular, and a knee point existed for the fractal curves of the porous medium (Wang et al. 2020). The relationship between lg(T2) and lg(Sv) can be further divided into two parts.
According to Eq. (11), the relationship between the transversal relaxation time and cumulative signal amplitude fraction can be expressed as follows:
where Svi is the cumulative signal amplitude fraction for T2i (%); Di is the fractal dimension for T2i; and T2max is the maximum transverse relaxation time (ms).
Using Eq. (13), the fractal dimensions at various transversal relaxation times could be acquired. The porous medium features fractal characteristics, and a fractal dimension of 2 was selected as the cutoff point (Guo et al. 2019). Afterward, the cutoff point of T2 for the different core samples could be acquired (Fig. 7).
When the cutoff points of the primary pores were acquired, the fractal dimensions (D) and corresponding correlation coefficient (R2) were also gained. R2 reflects the deviation degree of the data, and a significant change in R2 implies that the newly added data are significantly different from the former data, and this difference can be calculated as follows:
where \(R_{i}^{2}\) is the correlation coefficient of the relationship between lg(T2i) and lg(Svi) under T2i, and \(R_{i + 1}^{2}\) is the correlation coefficient of the relationship between lg(T2i+1) and lg(Svi+1) under T2i+1.
According to Eq. (14), there are two knee points for primary pore 1–1 and no knee point for primary pore 1–2 (Fig. 8).
Based on the primary pore classification, the secondary pores were further divided further, and the pores in the tight sandstone sample were divided into four types: secondary pore 2–1 (P1), secondary pore 2–2 (P2), secondary pore 2–3 (P3), and secondary pore 2–4 (P4) (Fig. 9).
Evidently, the amplitudes of the peaks of the various pore types variably decreases after oil displacement, and all these pores were movable fluid pores (Fig. 10). The peak of the P4 pore featured the most significant decrease, and the P4 pore indicated that the fluid in it could be discharged easily. The characteristics of the P3 pore were similar to those of the P4 pore, although there was a certain amount of residual oil in it, indicating that the fluid in the P3 pore can flow under certain condition at a lower threshold. The P2 pore was dominant in the tight core samples, and the fluids in it were partially movable. As for the P1 pore, the decrease in the peak amplitude was subtle, indicating that the fluid can hardly flow.
Oil utilization degree of residual oil in various pores
The residual oil is distributed throughout various pores, and using various displacement methods, the residual oil in various pores can be discharged further, and the oil utilization degree (OUD) of the residual oil in various pores determines the oil displacement efficiency. The OUD can be calculated using Eq. (15):
where OUD is the degree of oil utilization of the pores (%); Apo is the peak area of the pores, such as the P1, P2, P3 and P4 pores; and Api is the corresponding peak area of the pore after the displacement.
In addition, to evaluate the OUD of the residual oil in various pores, the knee points of T2 at the initial residual oil distribution were selected as the threshold, and the OUD of residual oil in various pores was fixed for the same core sample.
OUD of various pores in SI
Figure 11 shows that the OUDs of various pores in the DBC81 and WQC91 core samples were similar. The OUD of the P1 pore features fluctuated, and there was no law during the entire SI. The OUD in the P2 and P3 pore features continuously increased with an increase in the SI time, and the increase in the oil displacement efficiency was primarily attributed to the oil volume in the P2 and P3 pores. As shown in Fig. 10a and c, the volume of the P2 pores was dominant, and the OUD for the P2 pores was more essential. In addition, the OUD of the P2 and P3 pores in the DBC81 sample was lower than that of the WQC91 sample, which was primarily related to the larger pore apertures of the P2 and P3 pores in the WQC91 sample (Fig. 10a, c). The OUD of the P4 pores also fluctuated. During the initial period of the SI, the oil discharged from the P1, P2, and P3 pores migrated into the P4 pores; afterward, the residual oil in the P4 pores began to discharge rapidly, which leads to a “V”-type shaped OUD of the P4 pores for the DBC81 sample (Fig. 11a). The OUD of various pores in SI indicates that the capillary imbibition dominantly contributed during the initial period of the SI; with the continuous SI occurrences, the diffusion of the residual oil in the P2, P3, and P4 pores contributed to an increase in the oil displacement efficiency (Lyu et al. 2018b).
OUD of various pores during the water flooding at various flooding rates
A water flooding rate of 0.06 mL/min could achieve the maximum oil displacement efficiency for the DBC81 and WQC91 samples, and this is related to the OUD of the pores. Evidently, the OUD of residual oil in the P2, P3, and P4 pores increased first and then decreased with the increase in the water flooding rates, and it reached maximum when the water flooding rate was 0.06 mL/min, while it fluctuated for the P1 pores (Fig. 12). The OUD for the P3 and P4 pores was significantly higher than that for the P2 pores owing to the larger pore aperture. However, the volume of residual oil in the P2 pores was dominant, and the characteristics of the OUD in P2 pores were essential.
OUD of various pores in the water flooding displacement after SI
It was found that a reasonable water flooding rate after SI could further increase the OUD of the residual oil in various types of pores, particularly for the P2, P3s and P4 pores in the DBC81 sample (Fig. 13). There was only a slight increase in the oil displacement efficiency for the WQC91 sample (Fig. 5b). The volume of various pores in the WQC91 sample is P1:P2:P3:P4 = 1:6.52:0.41:0.38, whereas was P1:P2:P3:P4 = 1:3.74:1.81:1.39 for the DBC81 sample, which leads to a lower OUD in the pores.
OUD models under various displacement methods
A tight reservoir features a complex pore structure, and various displacement methods lead to different oil displacement efficiencies. For the SI oil displacement, the residual oil in P2 and P3 pores dominantly contributed to the increase in the oil displacement efficiency; the OUD of residual oil in the P2 pores significantly influenced the oil displacement efficiency when the water flooding displacement method was used. For a reasonable water flooding rate displacement method after SI, the evident increase in the oil displacement efficiency primarily benefited from the massive use of residual oil in various pores, particularly in the P2, P3d and P4 pores, and the pore structure contributed to the OUD (Fig. 14).
Conclusions
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The oil displacement efficiency of the tight sandstone for SI was low, and a reasonable water flooding rate produced the maximum oil displacement efficiency for the tight reservoir; in this study, the reasonable water flooding rate was approximately 0.06 mL/min. A reasonable water flooding rate after SI is an effective method for further improving the oil displacement efficiency.
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Using the progressively refined pore classification method, the pores in the tight sandstone were divided into four types: P1, P2, P3, and P4 pores. For SI displacement, the residual oil in the P2 and P3 pores dominantly contributed to the increase in the oil displacement efficiency; the residual oil in the P2 pores had a significant influence on the increase in the oil displacement efficiency when water flooding was utilized; the use of a reasonable water flooding rate after SI could significantly increase the degree of utilization of residual oil in the various pores, particularly for the P2, P3, and P4 pore, and the pore structure also controlled the further increase in the oil displacement efficiency.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Program No. 52174030), Scientific Research Program Funded by Shaanxi Provincial Education Department (Program No. 21JP095 and Program No. 20JS116), Key Laboratory of Coalbed Methane Resources and Reservoir Formation Process of Ministry of Education (China University of Mining and Technology) (Program No. 2021–004) and The Youth Innovation Team of Shaanxi Universities.
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Li, T., Gao, H., Wang, C. et al. Oil utilization degree at various pore sizes via different displacement methods. J Petrol Explor Prod Technol 12, 2271–2287 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13202-022-01464-7
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