Characterization of Remaining Oil After Polymer Flooding by Laser Scanning Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy

Abstract

In the mid- to late period of oil field development, it is important to consider the microscopic distribution of remaining oil of the reservoir in time, for it is the foundation of enhanced oil recovery. Focusing on the present insufficient research status of microscopic distribution of remaining oil after polymer flooding, this article first put forward and developed a set of fluorescence microscope technology of frozen core analysis of remaining oil, and used this technology combined with laser confocal microscopic detection technology to study microscopic distribution rules of remaining oil before and after polymer flooding. Through comparison and analysis on the difference of microscopic distribution form of remaining oil, the experimental results show that polymer flooding has different effects on different types of remaining oil. Using this technology, analysis of many different distribution forms of remaining oil involving the same mode of occurrence in different layers, different parts of the same layer, and different types of the same layer can be more clearly distinguished. Using polymer flooding pertinently according to the different distribution form of remaining oil will make the use of polymer more efficiently and the recovery higher.

Keywords:

• Distribution of remaining oil
• laser confocal
• microscopic fluorescence analysis
• microscopic remaining oil
• polymer flooding

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors wish to thank the support of Daqing Oil Field of CNPC.

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