The present invention belongs to the technical field of carbon dioxide sequestration, and relates to a carbon dioxide sequestration method based on reservoir wettability optimization design and stratified regulation.
In recent years, due to the global dependence on fossil fuels, the greenhouse effect is seriously threatening the global environment, the carbon dioxide sequestration technology, especially the geological sequestration technology, has been paid more and more attention and research.
The geological sequestration technology refers to the use of geological structures to store carbon dioxide. Major sequestration sites include deep saline aquifer in sedimentary basins, abandoned coal seam, and oil and natural gas fields, among which oil and natural gas fields includes abandoned oil and natural gas fields and oil and natural gas fields, i.e., the CO2-EOR technology (carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery technology). In strata, fluid movement in a high permeability layer is limited by the surrounding environment, especially a low permeability layer above, so a fluid stays in situ for a long time. In such a closed structure, high permeability rock is called a reservoir, and low permeability rock is called a cover. Carbon dioxide geological sequestration means that carbon dioxide is artificially injected into the reservoir of the closed structure by drilling holes to be isolated from the atmosphere for a long time. Once injected, as carbon dioxide is less dense than the surrounding environment, a carbon dioxide plume will be raised by buoyancy, and when encountering the cover, the carbon dioxide will be diffused laterally until a gap is encountered. If a fault appears near an injection zone, the carbon dioxide may migrate to the ground surface along the fault and leak into the atmosphere, posing a potential hazard to the life in the surrounding area. Therefore, it is an important research topic to improve the capacity of carbon dioxide sequestration and ensure the sequestration safety at the same time.
After carbon dioxide is injected into the reservoir, the interaction among carbon dioxide, reservoir fluid and rock is a complex process which includes seepage flow, mechanical response and chemical reaction of multi-phase fluids. To research this process quantitatively, the simulation and calculation of the two-phase flow of carbon dioxide and reservoir fluid can be conducted. In a simulation process, the reservoir and the cover of the rock in the strata are usually considered separately, and only force change is considered for the cover. Since reservoir rock is mostly sandstone and contains many pores, which can be treated as a porous medium, the simulation process can be understood as a problem of two-phase flow in porous medium.
The wettability of the rock affects the migration law, trapping capability, sequestration capacity and leakage possibility of carbon dioxide in a deep reservoir. Generally, the wettability of a solid surface is evaluated by a contact angle. The contact angle ranges from 0° to 180°, and generally refers to the included angle between the solid interface of the rock and a fluid with a relatively high density. The larger the contact angle is, the poorer the reservoir wettability is, and the higher the capacity of carbon dioxide sequestration is. The contact angle is an important factor in a carbon dioxide seepage characteristics simulation process. However, no direct quantitative relation between the contact angle and carbon dioxide seepage characteristics simulation has been formed yet.
Rock wettability is a basic characteristic parameter of the physical properties of the reservoir. Currently, the methods for changing rock wettability can be divided into three categories: physical methods, chemical methods and microbial methods. Chemical methods are usually to add chemical agents in the injected water to regulate the wettability of the rock surface of the reservoir, so as to change the wettability direction of rock pore surface, which can significantly improve the sequestration rate. Wetting-transition agents used for regulating rock wettability by chemical methods include: inorganic salts, surfactants, new films, etc.
The purpose of the present invention is to quantitatively research the influence of the change of reservoir wettability, i.e., the change of the contact angle, on carbon dioxide sequestration, conduct optimization design to reservoir wettability on this basis, and then conduct layered regulation to effectively increase the capacity of carbon dioxide sequestration, improve the injectability of carbon dioxide, and reduce the risk of carbon dioxide leakage.
To achieve the above purpose, the present invention adopts the following technical solution:
A carbon dioxide sequestration method based on reservoir wettability optimization design and layered regulation, which proposes the following four schemes for a carbon dioxide sequestration process: a carbon dioxide sequestration process seepage characteristics simulation scheme, a reservoir wettability optimization design scheme, a reservoir wettability regulation scheme and a carbon dioxide sequestration well layout design scheme. The details of the four schemes are as follows:
1.1) Detecting strata used for carbon dioxide sequestration and sampling a rock core to obtain a height H and an initial contact angle α0 of a reservoir (4) in the strata. A stratum is divided into the reservoir (4) and a cover (3), both of which are rock, but the reservoir (4) has relatively large voids and contains much liquid saline water, oil or gas. Rock wettability regulation refers to the rock wettability regulation of the reservoir (4).
1.2) Improving a relative permeability model and a capillary pressure model used for numerical calculation in a large scale simulator of carbon dioxide geological sequestration at present as follows: obtaining a relation L=f1(α) between liquid film thickness on rock surface and contact angle by a molecular simulation method, deducing a quantitative relation Kr=f3(Swr)=f3(α) between a relative permeability Kr and the contact angle α as well as a quantization relation Pc=f4 (Swr)=f4(α) between a capillary pressure Pc and the contact angle α in combination with a reservoir liquid residual saturation Swr=f2 (L)=f2(α), using the quantization relations as new relative permeability model and capillary pressure model to conduct simulation and calculation and quantitatively research the influence of contact angle on carbon dioxide seepage characteristics.
1.3) Using the improved large scale simulator of carbon dioxide geological sequestration to conduct numerical calculation again, and conducting simulation for multiple times respectively in combination with a reservoir wettability optimization design scheme of step 2 to obtain the simulation results of carbon dioxide seepage characteristics in different contact angle conditions.
To increase the capacity of carbon dioxide sequestration and reduce the risk of carbon dioxide leakage, according to the carbon dioxide sequestration process seepage characteristics simulation scheme, using the large scale simulator improved in step 1.2) to simulate the carbon dioxide seepage characteristics of the reservoir in different contact angle conditions, and conducting reservoir wettability optimization design according to the simulation results; the design scheme comprises:
Designing the contact angle of the reservoir into a uniform and fixed value α>α0, and setting different value ranges of a in the large scale simulator for simulation respectively. Selecting an optimal value range of the contact angle α of the reservoir according to the simulation results (using the optimal value range as a target contact angle value range), and implementing a reservoir wettability regulation scheme according to the value range of a and the value of H.
Designing a two-layer structure for the reservoir (4) below the cover (3), comprising a first regulation layer (41) and a second regulation layer (42) below. Designing a relatively small contact angle β1<α0 below the cover (3), i.e., in the first regulation layer (41), and designing the height thereof into H1, wherein H1<H, so that the wettability of the first regulation layer (41) is enhanced to prevent the diffusion of carbon dioxide hitherward, thus reducing the risk of carbon dioxide leakage near the cover (3) and enhancing the sealing property of the cover (3); designing a relatively large contact angle β2>α0 below the first regulation layer (41), i.e., in the second regulation layer (42), and designing the height thereof into H-H1, so that the wettability of the second regulation layer (42) is reduced and the second regulation layer (42) is used as a carbon dioxide sequestration layer; setting different value ranges of β1 and β2 in the large scale simulator, matching with different values of H1 for simulation respectively, selecting a set of optimal matches between the value ranges of β1 and β2 and the values of H1 according to the simulation results (using the optimal value ranges as target contact angle value ranges), and implementing a reservoir wettability regulation scheme according to the value ranges of β1 and β2 and the values of H1.
Obtaining the heights and the target contact angle value ranges of the regulation layers through the above design scheme {circle around (1)} and design scheme {circle around (2)}.
Further, in the design scheme {circle around (1)}, a criterion for judging an optimal match between the value range of the contact angle and the value of the height of the regulation layer is that, within a certain injection time and sequestration time, the higher the capacity of carbon dioxide sequestration and the lower the quantity of leakage are, the better the match between the contact angle and the height of a regulation layer is.
Further, in the design scheme {circle around (2)}, a criterion for judging an optimal match between the value ranges of β1 and β2 and the value of H1 is that, within a certain injection time and sequestration time, the higher the capacity of carbon dioxide sequestration and the lower the quantity of leakage are, the better the match between the contact angles and the height of a regulation layer is.
Further, when more than one high density fluids are present in the reservoir, e.g., water and oil are present in an oil field, the contact angle of a main displacing fluid in the reservoir is regulated uniformly in the design scheme {circle around (1)}.
Further, when more than one high density fluids are present in the reservoir, e.g., water and oil are present in an oil field, in the design scheme {circle around (2)}, two regulation schemes can be designed for the first regulation layer (41), i.e., the contact angles of the two fluids are regulated respectively, and only the contact angle of the main displacing fluid is regulated in the second regulation layer (42). The main displacing fluid can be known according to the research object, for example, in an oil field, the main displacing fluid is oil, and in a deep saline aquifer in a basin, the main displacing fluid is saline water.
Selecting an appropriate wetting-transition agent according to the target contact angle value ranges set in the reservoir wettability optimization design scheme of step 2, and adopting different regulation schemes according to the different design schemes in step 2, which are specifically as follows:
Further, to prevent carbon dioxide leakage, injecting carbon dioxide at the bottom of the reservoir (4) only.
Further, the wetting-transition agent injection modes for the design scheme (and the regulation scheme {circle around (1)} include:
Further, the wetting-transition agent injection modes for the design scheme @ and the regulation scheme {circle around (2)} include:
Further, a carbon dioxide tracer can also be injected simultaneously during carbon dioxide and wetting-transition agent injection to track the movement status of carbon dioxide in real time.
In addition, in the present invention, after the reservoir wettability regulation scheme is implemented, a carbon dioxide sequestration well layout scheme can also be designed, which uses a well layout mode of “using one well for multiple purposes—using two wells in conjunction—adopting a network layout”:
Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the following beneficial effects:
In the figures: 1 injection well; 2 producing well; 3 cover; 4 reservoir; 5 carbon dioxide monitoring point; 41 first regulation layer; 42 second regulation layer.
To make the purpose, the technical solution and the advantages of the present invention more clear, the present invention will be further explained and described below in combination with the drawings and the embodiment. The specific embodiment described herein is only used for explaining the present invention, not used for limiting the present invention.
The embodiment discloses a carbon dioxide sequestration method based on reservoir wettability optimization design and layered regulation, which is illustrated by taking the enhanced oil recovery technology of carbon dioxide sequestration in an oil field as an example.
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1.1) Detecting strata used for carbon dioxide sequestration and sampling a rock core to obtain a height of 200 m, an oil initial contact angle of 20° and a water initial contact angle of 115° of a reservoir (4) in the strata.
1.2) Improving a classic Brooks-Corey relative permeability model and a capillary pressure model used for numerical calculation in a solver of multi-phase flow in porous medium: obtaining a relation L=f1(α) between liquid film thickness on rock surface and contact angle by a molecular simulation method, deducing a quantitative relation Kr=f3(Swr)=f3(α) between a relative permeability Kr and the contact angle α as well as a quantization relation Pc=f4 (Swr)=f4(α) between a capillary pressure Pc and the contact angle α in combination with a reservoir liquid residual saturation Swr=f2(L)=f2(α), using the quantization relations as new relative permeability model and capillary pressure model to conduct simulation and calculation and quantitatively research the influence of contact angle on carbon dioxide seepage characteristics.
1.3) Using the improved solver of multi-phase flow in porous medium to conduct numerical calculation again, and conducting simulation for multiple times respectively in combination with a reservoir wettability optimization design scheme of step 2 to obtain the simulation results of carbon dioxide seepage characteristics in different contact angle conditions.
According to the carbon dioxide sequestration process seepage characteristics simulation scheme, using the improved solver of multi-phase flow in porous medium to simulate the carbon dioxide seepage characteristics of the reservoir in different contact angle conditions, and conducting reservoir wettability optimization design according to the simulation results. The design scheme @(regulating the contact angle of the reservoir by two layers) is used to illustrate the embodiment.
As two high density fluids, i.e., water and oil, are mainly present in the reservoir of an oil field in addition to the rock and the injected carbon dioxide, two regulation schemes can be designed for the first regulation layer (41), i.e., the contact angles of water and oil are regulated respectively, and only the contact angle of the main displacing fluid oil is regulated in the second regulation layer (42). The embodiment is illustrated by taking the example of regulating the water contact angle by the first regulation layer (41), and regulating the oil contact angle by the second regulation layer (42):
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When the design scheme {circle around (2)} is selected as the reservoir wettability optimization scheme, selecting the regulation scheme {circle around (2)} accordingly as the reservoir wettability regulation scheme. Selecting the optimal value range of the water contact value β1 as [0°-30° ], the value range of the oil contact value β2 as [80°-100° ], and H1=30 m according to the simulation results in the reservoir wettability optimization design scheme. The corresponding regulation scheme is specifically as follows:
To achieve the value range [0°-30° ] of the water contact angle β1 designed for the first regulation layer (41) in the design scheme {circle around (2)}, selecting a nonionic surfactant branched nonylphenol ethoxylate Indorama SURFONIC N-100 with a concentration of 0.1 wt %; and to achieve the value range [80°-100° ] of the oil contact angle β2 designed for the second regulation layer (42), selecting a nonionic surfactant branched tridecyl ethoxylate Indorama SURFONIC TDA-9 with a concentration of 0.1 wt %.
Finally, injecting the selected wetting-transition agent into the corresponding regulation layers, and regulating the wettability of different regulation layers accordingly.
Further, selecting the injection mode CD as the wetting-transition agent injection mode:
When carbon dioxide is sequestrated, the N-100 wetting-transition agent is dissolved in water and injected into the first regulation layer (41), the TDA-9 wetting-transition agent is dissolved in the carbon dioxide to be sequestrated and injected into the second regulation layer (42), and the concentrations of the two wetting-transition agents are both 0.1 wt %;
Further, a carbon dioxide tracer perfluoro-1,2-dimethylcyclohexane is also injected simultaneously during carbon dioxide and wetting-transition agent injection to track the movement status of carbon dioxide in real time, and the concentration of the carbon dioxide tracer is L/4e7gCO2.
In addition, the embodiment also provides a carbon dioxide sequestration well layout scheme:
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The above embodiment only expresses the implementation of the present invention, and shall not be interpreted as a limitation to the scope of the patent for the present invention. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, several variations and improvements can also be made without departing from the concept of the present invention, all of which belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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202310102230.8 | Feb 2023 | CN | national |