The present invention claims priority under 35 U.S.C. 119(a-d) to CN 201810590383.0, filed Jun. 9, 2018.
The present invention relates to a technical field of development based on water injection, and more particularly to an isotope nuclear magnetic method for analyzing ineffective water absorption of rock pores.
In the process of oilfield development based on water injection, after the injected water enters the reservoir, a part of the water enters the microscopic pores and becomes immobile water. This part of the water is ineffective water absorption of pores.
In the process of oil and gas development, with the continuous extraction of oil and gas, the formation pressure gradually decreases, and the flow rate of oil and gas gradually decreases. In order to supplement the formation energy, it is conventional to use a water injection method. In the practical application of water injection development, it is necessary to quantitatively analyze the ineffective water absorption of the reservoir pores, that is, how much injected water becomes the immobile water. Ineffective water absorption is an important parameter for the design of reservoir water injection development.
There is no exist mature solution for the quantitative analysis of ineffective water absorption of pores.
Conventionally, the scheme for analyzing the water saturation distribution of the reservoir includes an electric resistance method. Because the water saturation is different, the resistance of the rock layer is different. According to the relationship between the electric resistance and the water saturation, the water saturation of the reservoir can be inversely calculated according to the electric resistance. Disadvantages of the resistance method are that the water saturation can be determined, but saturation of the bound water, namely the immobile water, cannot be determined and cannot be used to analyze the ineffective water absorption.
It is also possible to form a two-dimensional porous medium by laser etching or chemical etching on the glass. The dyed water is then used for displacement analysis while video capture is performed. Thereafter, image analysis is used to determine the distribution of the dyed water. Disadvantage of this artificial core method are that only a two-dimensional porous structure can be realized, which is different from the actual three-dimensional core; at the same time, fluid in the micron-sized pores cannot be observed in the video image.
In order to solve the above technical problems, the present invention provides an isotope nuclear magnetic method for analyzing ineffective water absorption of rock pores, which can quantitatively obtain an ineffective amount of immobile water after displacement water is injected into the rock, so as to solve a problem that conventional methods cannot analyze a specific content of ineffective water absorption.
Accordingly, in order to accomplish the above objects, the present invention provides:
an isotope nuclear magnetic method for analyzing ineffective water absorption of rock pores, comprising steps of: saturating core pores of a core sample with a wetting phase fluid of water H2O, and obtaining a core T2 spectrum after being saturated with the water, so as to obtain a conversion relationship between a water volume and a T2 spectrum area; re-saturating the core pores with a wetting phase fluid of heavy water D2O, and obtaining a rock baseline T1 spectrum; injecting fluorinated oil into the core sample saturated with the heavy water to restore original water saturation and oil saturation states of a formation; injecting the water H2O, simulating a water injection process, and injecting the fluorinated oil, so as to analyze a content of immobile water and obtain a residual T2 spectrum, wherein a range formed by a difference between the residual T2 spectrum and the rock baseline T2 spectrum is an ineffective water absorption portion of the rock pores; according to a conversion coefficient of the water volume and the T2 spectrum area, an ineffective water absorption amount is obtained.
The isotope nuclear magnetic method comprises specific steps of:
(1) cleaning and preparing a rock sample;
wherein a cylindrical core sample is obtained by drilling with a diameter of D cm, a length of L cm, and a volume of V; two end faces of the core sample are mechanically polished; oil of the core sample is washed out with an organic solvent, and then the core is dried to complete preparation of the core sample; according to a helium method, a porosity of the core sample is ∅, and a pore volume is VP=V*∅;
(2) saturating with the water H2O;
wherein the cleaned core sample is placed in the water H2O and stands for no less than 24 hours, so that the core pores are saturated with the wetting phase fluid of the water H2O;
(3) calibrating a ratio relationship of a fluid volume and the T2 spectrum area;
wherein the core sample saturated with the water H2O in the step (2) is placed in a core holder in a magnetic cylinder of a nuclear magnetic displacement instrument, and an external magnetic field B0 of a nuclear magnetic resonance instrument is adjusted to 0.6 T; a frequency of an alternating magnetic field B1 is adjusted to a resonance frequency of protium, and then the core T2 spectrum after being saturated with the water is obtained, wherein an area thereof is TS; according to the area TS and the pore volume VP, a conversion coefficient between a nuclear magnetic signal area and the water volume is determined as T2W=VP/TS;
(4) saturating with the heavy water D2O;
wherein the core sample is washed again according to the step (1); then the cleaned core sample is placed in the heavy water D2O and stands for no less than 24 hours, so that the core pores are saturated with the wetting phase fluid of the heavy water D2O;
(5) calibrating the rock baseline T2 spectrum;
wherein the core sample saturated with the heavy water D2O in the step (2) is placed in the core holder in the magnetic cylinder of the nuclear magnetic displacement instrument, and the external magnetic field B0 of the nuclear magnetic resonance instrument is adjusted to 0.6 T; the frequency of the alternating magnetic field B1 is adjusted to the resonance frequency of the protium, and then the rock baseline T2 spectrum is obtained; since no T2 signal appears at resonance frequencies of deuterium and protium, the rock baseline T2 spectrum received mainly comes from signals emitted by protium of a rock solid part;
(6) injecting the fluorinated oil;
wherein the fluorinated oil is injected into the core sample saturated with the heavy water by a pressure difference Pcd of oil reservoir filling, and a meter is placed at an outlet to measure a volume VD of the heavy water driven out by the fluorinated oil; when the volume VD is constant, injecting of the fluorinated oil is stopped, and the original water saturation and oil saturation states of the formation are restored;
(7) injecting H2O, and simulating a water flooding process;
wherein after the step (6), the water H2O is injected into the core sample at a constant speed VI; the water injection process is simulated, and a meter is placed at an outlet to measure a volume VO of the fluorinated oil driven out by the water H2O; when a water injection volume is NPV, injecting of the water H2O is stopped; NPV=injected liquid volume/total rock pore volume;
(8) injecting the fluorinated oil to analyze the content of the immobile water;
wherein after the step (7), the fluorinated oil is injected into the core sample at the constant speed VI, and a meter is placed at the outlet to measure a volume VH of the water H2O driven out by the fluorinated oil; when the volume VH is constant, injecting of the fluorinated oil is stopped, and remaining water in the core is the immobile water; and
(9) determining the ineffective water absorption of the core pores;
wherein the remaining water in the core sample of the step (8) is the immobile water; after the step (8), the external magnetic field B0 of the nuclear magnetic resonance instrument is adjusted to 0.6 T, and the frequency of the alternating magnetic field B1 is adjusted to the resonance frequency of the protium; since the heavy water has no nuclear magnetic echo signal under the resonance frequency of the protium, a T2 spectrum signal after injecting the fluorinated oil into the core in the step (8) is a residual water signal, which is called the residual T2 spectrum; an ineffective water absorption T2 spectrum after core injection is obtained according to the difference between the residual T2 spectrum and the rock baseline T2 spectrum in the step (5), and the range formed by the difference is the ineffective water absorption portion of the rock pores, wherein an spectrum area of the ineffective water absorption portion is WTS; according to the conversion coefficient T2W calibrated in the step (3) by the ratio relationship of the fluid volume and the T2 spectrum area, a specific volume the immobile water converted from the water injected into the core is Vfa=WTS*T2W; according to a conversion relationship between a T2 spectrum relaxation time and a pore radius, pore size distribution of the rock pores with ineffective water absorption is obtained from the ineffective water absorption T2 spectrum after core injection.
The isotope nuclear magnetic method for analyzing the ineffective water absorption of the rock pores provided by the present invention combines displacement, isotope labeling and nuclear magnetic T2 spectrum analysis by using different nuclear magnetic response signals of water and heavy water, so as to determine the source of the immobile water in the rock and the ineffective water injection amount. The sample baseline T2 spectrum is first determined, and the difference between the residual T2 spectrum and the baseline T2 spectrum is taken as a T2 spectrum part of final ineffective water absorption, which effectively reduces the influence of the protium element in the sample.
According to an embodiment, the present invention will be further illustrated.
Analyze of inefficient water absorption of sandstone in the Fuyu oil layer in Daqing is provided, wherein a core sample is processed to be 2.5 cm in diameter and 6 cm in axis length.
The instrument uses the following steps of:
(1) placing the core sample in a core holder in a sample cylinder of the magnet box;
(2) adjusting a high temperature and high pressure control system of the magnet box, in such a manner that a temperature and a pressure of the core holder reaches formation temperature and pressure conditions;
(3) pressing liquid into the core according to a constant temperature or constant pressure method; and
(4) turning on the radio frequency device to collect the T2 spectrum signal of the core sample.
The isotope nuclear magnetic method for analyzing the ineffective water absorption of the rock pores of the present invention utilizes two hydrogen isotopes protium H and deuterium D, and different nuclear magnetic signal responses of two isotopic water molecules H2O and D2O under the same external magnetic field strength and excitation frequency. Therefore, quantitative analysis of an ineffective water absorption amount of the rock pores is realized by combining the displacement method.
Among them, the principle of nuclear magnetic resonance is: the nucleus is a positively charged particle, the non-spinning nucleus has no magnetic moment, and the spinable nucleus has a circulating current, which generates a magnetic field and forms a magnetic moment (μ). When the spinning nucleus is in an external magnetic field with an intensity of B0 in addition to spin, the nucleus also moves around the B0. Such movement is similar to the movement of gyro, called Larmor precession. Angular velocity ω0 of spinning nucleus precession is proportional to the intensity B0 of the external magnetic field, and a proportionality constant is a magnetogyric ratio γ: ω0=2πv0=γB0, wherein v0 is a precession frequency.
Orientation of microscopic magnetic moments under an external magnetic field is quantized, and nuclei with a spin quantum number I may have only 2I+1 orientations under the external magnetic field, wherein each orientation can be represented by a spin magnetic quantum number m, and a relationship between m and I is:
m=I, I−1, I−2 . . . −I
Each orientation of the nucleus represents an energy state of the nucleus in the magnetic field.
Let the spin nuclei in the external magnetic field B0 be excited by an alternating magnetic field B1 perpendicular to B0. When radiation energy from the B1 is exactly equal to the energy difference between two different orientations of the spin nuclei, the spin nuclei in the low energy state E1 absorbs electromagnetic radiation energy and transitions to the high energy state E2. This phenomenon is called nuclear magnetic resonance, referred to as NMR.
T1 relaxation time and T2 relaxation time are that: when the excitation alternating magnetic field B1 is removed, the spin nucleus will automatically transition from the high energy state E2 to the low energy state E1 under the action of B0. This process is called relaxation. In this process, the number of nuclei on the low energy state E1 gradually increases. This increasing process is called longitudinal relaxation, and the relaxation time taken by the increase process is T1. At the same time, the nuclear spin direction in the high-energy state E2 also changes laterally, but such energy invariance process is called transverse relaxation. The lateral relaxation causes the excitation magnetic field to be dispersed, and the relaxation time taken by the reduction process is T2. The lateral direction refers to all horizontal directions perpendicular to the magnetic field B0. Longitudinal relaxation is an energy relaxation phenomenon, which is an energy entropy increase process; transverse relaxation is a geometric phase relaxation phenomenon, which is a geometric entropy increasing process.
Porous media is: a media containing complex pore-throat structures, such as sandstone, shale, etc.
Relationship between fluid relaxation time T2 and pore size r in porous media is as follows.
The mechanism for determining the transverse phase relaxation time T2 of a fluid nucleus in a porous medium is as follows:
wherein
is a transverse volume relaxation term, T2B is a free relaxation time of the fluid;
is a transverse surface relaxation term, S is a pore surface area, V is a pore volume, ρ is a transverse relaxation strength factor;
is a diffusion relaxation term, G is a magnetic field gradient, TE is an echo interval, γ is a magnetogyric ratio, and D is a diffusion coefficient.
When there is only one kind of fluid in the pores, T2B is much larger than T2, so the lateral volume relaxation term
can be ignored; when the magnetic field is sufficiently uniform, the magnetic field gradient is very small, and the echo interval TE is small, the diffusion relaxation term
can also be ignored. Under the above conditions, the transverse relaxation time is only related to the transverse surface relaxation
wherein F is a shape factor and r is a pore radius. The above shows that for the fluid in the small-diameter pores, the faster the phase is laterally dispersed, the shorter the transverse relaxation time will be, and the magnetization of the fluid in this part of the pores is earliest reduced; for the fluid in the large-diameter pores, the slower the phase is laterally dispersed, the longer the transverse relaxation time will be, and the magnetization of the fluid in this part of the pores is latest reduced.
For the rock nuclear magnetic T2 spectrum: since the pore radius of the porous medium has a division f(r) and the relaxation time T2 of different radius r is different, the transverse relaxation time of the porous medium is not a single value, but a division-T2 division. The spin echo string measured and recorded by nuclear magnetic pulse sequence is exponentially attenuated, which means that single exponential attenuations are superposed:
wherein Aj is a measured amplitude of the j-th echo signal, ΔTCE is a measure echo interval, T2i is a transverse relaxation time constant of the i-th pore fluid, Ei is a transverse relaxation intensity of the i-th pore. Multi-exponential fitting of the echo signals presets multiple T2(T2i) values, and then find multiple Ei, so that it can fit the measured echo signals T2i and Ei form the nuclear magnetic T2 spectrum as shown in
The isotope nuclear magnetic method comprises specific steps of:
(1) cleaning and preparing a rock sample;
wherein a cylindrical core sample is obtained by drilling with a diameter of D cm, a length of L cm, and a volume of V; two end faces of the core sample are mechanically polished; oil of the core sample is washed out with an organic solvent, and then the core is dried to complete preparation of the core sample; according to a helium method, a porosity of the core sample is ∅, and a pore volume is VP=V*∅;
(2) saturating with the water H2O;
wherein the cleaned core sample is placed in the water H2O and stands for no less than 24 hours, so that the core pores are saturated with the wetting phase fluid of the water H2O;
(3) calibrating a ratio relationship of a fluid volume and the T2 spectrum area;
wherein the core sample saturated with the water H2O in the step (2) is placed in a core holder in a magnetic cylinder of a nuclear magnetic displacement instrument, as shown in
(4) saturating with the heavy water D2O;
wherein the core sample is washed again according to the step (1); then the cleaned core sample is placed in the heavy water D2O and stands for no less than 24 hours, so that the core pores are saturated with the wetting phase fluid of the heavy water D2O;
(5) calibrating the rock baseline T2 spectrum;
wherein the core sample saturated with the heavy water D2O in the step (2) is placed in the core holder in the magnetic cylinder of the nuclear magnetic displacement instrument, and the external magnetic field B0 of the nuclear magnetic resonance instrument is adjusted to 0.6 T; the frequency of the alternating magnetic field B1 is adjusted to the resonance frequency of the protium, and then the rock baseline T2 spectrum is obtained, as shown in
(6) injecting the fluorinated oil;
wherein the fluorinated oil is injected into the core sample saturated with the heavy water by a pressure difference Pcd of oil reservoir filling, and a meter is placed at an outlet to measure a volume VD of the heavy water driven out by the fluorinated oil; when the volume VD is constant, injecting of the fluorinated oil is stopped, and the original water saturation and oil saturation states of the formation are restored;
(7) injecting the water H2O, and simulating a water flooding process;
wherein after the step (6), the water H2O is injected into the core sample at a constant speed VI; the water injection process is simulated, and a meter is placed at an outlet to measure a volume VO of the fluorinated oil driven out by the water H2O; when a water injection volume is NPV, injecting of the water H2O is stopped; NPV=injected liquid volume/total rock pore volume;
(8) injecting the fluorinated oil to analyze the content of the immobile water;
wherein after the step (7), the fluorinated oil is injected into the core sample at the constant speed VI, and a meter is placed at the outlet to measure a volume VH of the water H2O driven out by the fluorinated oil; when the volume VH is constant, injecting of the fluorinated oil is stopped, and remaining water in the core is the immobile water; and
(9) determining the ineffective water absorption of the core pores;
wherein the remaining water in the core sample of the step (8) is the immobile water; after the step (8), the external magnetic field B0 of the nuclear magnetic resonance instrument is adjusted to 0.6 T, and the frequency of the alternating magnetic field B1 is adjusted to the resonance frequency of the protium; since the heavy water has no nuclear magnetic echo signal under the resonance frequency of the protium, a T2 spectrum signal after injecting the fluorinated oil into the core in the step (8) is a residual water signal, which is called the residual T2 spectrum; an ineffective water absorption T2 spectrum after core injection is obtained according to the difference between the residual T2 spectrum and the rock baseline T2 spectrum in the step (5), as shown in
For the sandstone in the Fuyu oil layer in Daqing, the amount of ineffective water absorption converted from water injection is 0.4 ml. However, conventional resistance method and artificial core experimental method cannot obtain the ineffective water absorption.
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2018 1 0590383 | Jun 2018 | CN | national |
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20190257733 A1 | Aug 2019 | US |