This method is applicable to the oil and gas exploitation of all oil and gas reservoirs containing edge and bottom water in the oil and gas industry.
At present, the impact of edge and bottom water in oil and gas reservoirs on oil and gas development is expressed in two ways: one is, when edge and bottom water is pushed forward as a whole, oil and gas production is promoted; another kind of situation is, edge and bottom water is at the bottom water cone/ridge intrusion and edge water fingering intrude into the oil layer along the high-permeability layer, causing the oil layer to be flooded, the water cut of the production well increases, the oil production declines, the production is seriously affected, and even large-scale oil and gas wells have to be shut down.
In production, in order to prevent the intrusion of edge and bottom water, mostly adopt the method of avoiding edge and bottom water, that is, prevent the premature intrusion of edge and bottom water by avoiding the high-quality oil layer of a certain thickness or a certain distance, which causes certain amount of high-quality oil geological reserves cannot be used. When the shot avoidance is unsuccessful, mechanical or chemical methods are used to find and plug water in production. Most of these methods are short-lived, and some are simply ineffective. Even if the production wells are successfully found water and plugged, new water points are quickly re-appeared, and the end result is often the shutdown of large-scale production wells. Therefore, finding water plugging is complicated and difficult, and wastes a huge amount of resources.
On the other hand, in order to make up for the formation energy deficit, increase the driving energy of oil production, a common method is to utilize precious surface water resources to inject water/steam, and the early stage of steam injection in thermal recovery reservoirs is to increase temperature and reduce viscosity. Steam injection also has the effect of making up for the formation energy deficit and improving the driving energy of oil production. The result of this is that the cost of water/steam injection remains high, while the degree of recovery from the reservoir is limited. At present, the recovery degree of thin oil reservoirs is 60-70%, and the water content is as high as 98%. In heavy oil reservoirs, the average recovery factor is less than 20%, and the calibration recovery factor is less than 35%, and most of the oil and gas reserves are difficult to produce.
CN201480001286.3 proposes a kind of thermal recovery method that utilizes horizontal well to electrically heat oil reservoir edge and bottom water layer, namely provides thermal energy to the whole oil reservoir by heating the upper part of the oil reservoir edge and bottom water layer, and solves the problem of insufficiency of thermal energy injection in superficial heavy oil reservoirs in superficial-middle-deep and low thermal efficiency of steam in deep-ultra-deep reservoirs, not only achieve the purpose of heating and viscosity reduction of formation crude oil, but also form bottom water steam flooding, hot bottom water flooding and reservoir thermal expansion elastic pressure flooding in the production process, effectively make up for the formation energy deficit and improve the recovery degree of the reservoir.
Obviously, this method of utilizing natural formation water not only saves valuable surface water resources, but can effectively utilize the high-quality oil reservoirs in place for avoiding edge and bottom water, and because edge and bottom water and reservoir pore water are homologous, similar in nature, the intrusion of bottom water in the later stage does not significantly change the permeability of the reservoir. This is an in-situ concentrated thermal recovery method for oil reservoirs. The energy utilization efficiency of electric heating bottom water is higher and faster. It is a low-cost, energy-saving, high-efficiency; environmental protection, safe, convenient and fast thermal recovery method. However, like the conventional thermal recovery method, except for steam flooding in ordinary heavy oil reservoirs, this thermal recovery method only uses concentrated preheating thermal energy for oil recovery, that is, using the principle of heating and viscosity—reducing oil recovery, and lacks the power supply support for oil production in the production stage. Therefore, the improvement of the recovery factor is affected.
Except thermal recovery oil reservoir, in unconventional oil and gas reservoir, tight oil and gas reservoir accounts for a large proportion, but its reserve quality is low; has the characteristics of poor reservoir permeability, low abundance and low pressure, and natural energy is insufficient, causing oil well to naturally yield is low. Therefore, hydraulic fracturing, advanced water injection and CO2 gas injection are mostly used in development. However, the cost of hydraulic fracturing is high, the fractures are easy to close, repeated operations are required, and the pressure on environmental protection is high: the water injection method usually affects the permeability of the reservoir due to the expansion of clay minerals in contact with water; and the CO2 gas injection method, there is a problem of carbon emission and environmental pollution, the carbon sequestration problem is not easy to solve.
It can be seen that, to improve the recovery factor of various types of oil and gas reservoirs, the fundamental condition is to control the bottom water cone/ridge advance and improve the driving ability of oil production.
The overall advancement of the edge and bottom water of an oil and gas reservoir is beneficial to oil and gas production, learning from the ancients' water control methods of dredging and utilizing rather than preventing and blocking, the thermal recovery method of CN201480001286.3 utilizing horizontal wells to electrically heat the edge and bottom water layers of the oil reservoir, and tight oil and gas reservoir fracturing, water injection and gas injection production experience, the purpose of this method is to seek a method for dredging and utilizing rather than preventing and blocking natural formation water resources to improve the production and recovery of oil and gas reservoirs.
The physical properties of water show that: under certain conditions of pressure, the temperature of water heated will rise. When the temperature reaches the boiling point, the water temperature will no longer rise, and if the water continues to be heated, the water will be continuously vaporized to form water vapor. During the whole heating process, the dissolved gas continuously overflows and the higher the temperature, the more dissolved gas overflows.
While heating under relatively airtight conditions, along with the continuous increase of water temperature, the more overflow of dissolved gas, the greater the pressure in the container increases continuously, and the higher the boiling point temperature of water is. The prediction curve of the relationship between water boiling point temperature and pressure under airtight conditions (
A method for exploiting oil and gas by utilizing the bottom water resources of an oil and gas reservoir, characterized in that any oil and gas reservoir containing an edge and bottom water layer has original stratigraphic conditions A (Po, To), and a current development state B (Pi, Ti), according to the oil and gas reservoir geological characteristics, the original formation pressure and fracture pressure of the reservoir, and the prediction curve of the water boiling point temperature and pressure corresponding relationship, the upper part of the edge and bottom water layer of the oil and gas reservoir is continuously heated within a certain pressure range, and under the conditions of movable of the formation crude oil and the action of production pressure difference, the formation water directly enters the boiling state by means of pressure control and voltage stabilization and continuously generates bottom water vapor, which converts the bottom water resources of the oil and gas reservoir into the energy to push upward as a whole, generates a comprehensive oil and gas driving energy based on the area driving force mainly dominated by bottom water vapor flooding and hot bottom water flooding at the entire oil-water interface of the oil and gas reservoir and the reservoir thermal expansion elastic pressure throughout the entire oil and gas reservoir and oil and gas production process, and at the same time makes up for the formation energy deficit in the oil and gas reservoirs. The purpose of the method is to seek ways to divert, utilize rather than prevent and intercept natural formation water resources, and turn the harmful production side of edge and bottom water intrusion into a favorable production side, thereby further improving the level of producing reserve and recovery of various oil and gas reservoirs containing bottom water.
The oil recovery mechanism of this method includes, but is not limited to, the concentrated operation of the reservoir produces scale effect: the formation crude oil is heated up and reduced in viscosity; under the condition of complete vaporization of water, the steam volume of the same quality is about 17 times of the water volume, which is more easily diffused into the reservoir arbitrary micro space and makes up for the formation energy deficit and increases the production degree of the reservoir; the comprehensive oil recovery driving energy mainly based on bottom water steam flooding, hot bottom water flooding and reservoir thermal expansion elastic pressure flooding can improve the final recovery degree of the reservoir.
It can be seen from the curve of the corresponding relationship between water boiling point temperature and pressure that the pressure in the reservoir will continue to increase when the formation water is continuously heated under closed conditions. Therefore, except for tight oil and gas reservoirs, the pressure of general oil and gas reservoirs needs to be controlled below the fracture pressure of the reservoir during the heating process. Regulate the pressure level and keep the pressure stable by releasing the pressure of the production well or adjusting the heating method of the formation water, or both.
Different from the method of CN201480001286.3, the focus of this method is not to preheat the entire oil reservoir, but to keep the formation pressure stable and continuously heat the formation water under the condition that the formation crude oil can move, that is, under the effective condition of steam flooding, so that the formation water can continuously generate a large amount of steam, so as to actively realize bottom water steam flooding, hot bottom water flooding and reservoir thermal expansion elastic pressure flooding during the production process, suitable for including thermal recovery reservoirs development of any oil and gas reservoir with edge and bottom water resources (
The CN201480001286.3 method is a necessary stage for the formation of bottom water vapor flooding for thermal recovery reservoirs in this method, that is, the stage of preheating the oil reservoir to realize the movement of the formation crude oil. After the preheating of the oil reservoir is completed, the formation under the condition of moving crude oil, the method needs to continue to stabilize the pressure, and then continue to heat the formation water to generate the required comprehensive driving energy for oil recovery. The core idea of the method of CN201480001286.3 is to centrally heat the oil reservoir, to heat up the crude oil to reduce the viscosity, and then to use the initial thermal energy formed in the preheating stage to carry out depressurization production.
The difference from the current steam flooding oil recovery method for ultra-heavy oil reservoirs is that the former oil reservoir is not fully preheated, and most of the crude oil in the formation is immovable. The production effect of steam huff and puff belongs to oil production while preheating, the formation crude oil is produced unevenly in the oil layer, the crude oil production degree is low; and the concept of flooding is not significant. This method continuously heats the formation water under the condition of pressure control and constant pressure under the condition of the movement of the formation crude oil, that is, after the method of CN201480001286.3, so as to generate the bottom water steam, and actively form the bottom water steam flooding, hot bottom water flooding and storage Layer elastic pressure drive.
This method develops and evolves on the basis of the CN201480001286.3 method, and is expanded and applied to the exploitation of all oil and gas reservoirs containing edge and bottom water, including CN201480001286.3 method and its heating process.
Different from CN201480001286.3 method to produce steam flooding and hot bottom water flooding mechanism, this method is to heat formation water in a certain pressure range, continuously heat formation water under a certain stable pressure condition, so that formation water generates a large amount of water steam, bottom water steam flooding can last for the whole production process. In the CN201480001286.3 method, bottom water vapor flooding occurs because the temperature at the bottom of the oil layer is higher than the vaporization temperature of formation water. Under the action of the production pressure difference, the high temperature bottom water invading the oil layer is vaporized to generate bottom water vapor flooding. When the temperature in the oil layer is less than or equal to the formation water vaporization temperature, the intrusion of bottom water can only form hot bottom water flooding. That is, after the centralized preheating, whether bottom steam flooding can be generated in the production stage depends on whether the temperature in the oil layer is higher than the vaporization temperature of water under the current pressure. If the conditions are not satisfied, bottom steam flooding will not occur.
Different from the CN201480001286.3 method, the horizontal well heating method can be, electric heating, and other energy-saving heat sources such as nuclear energy, solar energy, and wind energy can be used.
Consistent with the CN201480001286.3 method, the heat loss of the formation water in this method is within a controllable range. The principle includes: the heated formation water moves upward or obliquely upward under the action of thermodynamics (
For different oil and gas reservoirs, the specific implementation method can refer to
Utilizes natural oil and gas reservoir edge and bottom water resources to exploit oil and gas, heats the upper part of the edge and bottom water layer of oil and gas reservoir by controlled pressure method, under the action of crude oil movable condition and production pressure difference, forms effective bottom water vapor flooding, hot bottom water flooding and reservoir thermal expansion elastic pressure flooding, promote the overall upward movement of edge and bottom water energy, divert the harmful side to production of edge and bottom water to the one beneficial to production, and at the same time can fully make up for the formation energy deficit and improve the level of producing reserve and recovery of various oil and gas reservoirs containing bottom water.
The method is the upgrading, improvement and expansion application of CN201480001286.3 in-situ thermal recovery method, which is an effective method for actively utilizing the edge and bottom water energy of oil and gas reservoirs to improve the driving energy of oil recovery, and can utilize bottom water vapor and reservoir expansion to fully compensate for the formation energy deficit of various oil and gas reservoirs, and inject enough heat to heat up the crude oil in heavy oil reservoirs to reduce viscosity and improve the wax precipitation of crude oil in high pour point oil reservoirs, and improve the permeability of tight oil and gas reservoirs by high-pressure steam injection and reservoir overpressure fracturing methods, and increase the driving energy required for oil and gas production by three driving energies, which can effectively improve the production degree and final production degree of oil and gas reservoirs.
This method no longer needs to inject precious surface water resources, no longer needs to find water, water blocking repeated operations, can effectively utilize the high-quality oil-in-place reserves that avoid edge and bottom water, do not need to do sewage treatment, do not need to worry about tightness, do not need to worry about environmental pollution in the problem of crack closure in oil and gas formations. This method utilizes natural formation water resources, uses local materials, and makes the best use of the situation. It is a low-cost, energy-saving, efficient, environmentally friendly, safe, convenient and fast thermal oil and gas recovery method.
Meanwhile, after adopting this method, original water injection or steam injection well can be converted into production well, save production well drilling cost, improve oil reservoir productivity: Oil and gas reservoir temperature is controllable, and high temperature production of crude oil can save wellbore oil and gas lift. The cost of heating and gathering and transportation: enough heat can be injected at one time through the formation water to heat up the crude oil in heavy oil reservoirs and reduce the viscosity, improve the paraffin formation of crude oil in high pour point oil reservoirs, exert the scale effect of concentrated thermal recovery, and save time and cost.
Utilize this method, carry out numerical simulation to a super heavy oil reservoir containing bottom water, reservoir geological condition:
Simulation process: first concentrated preheating the oil reservoir, heating well spacing 30˜40 m, when the reservoir temperature reaches the crude oil movable condition, exceeds the crude oil viscosity-temperature inflection point temperature, pressure relief production is performed, and then, the formation water is continuously heated under constant pressure, and the bottom water is continuously boiled for production. When the water content reaches 98%, the production stops.
The numerical simulation results show that the preheating time of the oil reservoir is 2.5 to 5 years, and the bottom water vapor flooding is formed under the high pressure or low pressure stable condition. The recovery degree of the reservoir can reach at least 70˜80%, the energy consumption is between 66.6˜94×105 kJ/t. The cost of electricity per ton calculated by the optimal digital model is 950˜1057 Υ-/ton, equivalent to 21˜24 USD/Bucket (
Considering the impact of the electric heater energy-saving design on the cost, the actual application cost of the electricity bill of this scheme can be saved at least ⅓, that is, the electricity bill cost can be reduced to 634˜705 Υ-/t, 14˜16 $/b.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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| 201911298237.1 | Dec 2019 | CN | national |
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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| PCT/CN2020/129595 | 11/27/2020 | WO |