Mechanisms of Enhancing Recovery of the Superficial Heavy Oil Reservoir

Abstract:

The core displacement experiments show that displacement system containing chemical agent can enhance oil recovery by over 20% comparing to water flooding. Mechanisms by which chemical agent enhance oil recovery of heavy oil reservoir water flooding are: (1) improving mobility ratio by significantly decreasing viscosity of heavy oil, volumetric sweep efficiency is improved; (2) increasing capillary number by significantly decreasing oil-water interfacial tension, oil displacement efficiency is increased; (3) changing wettability of the rock surface from oil-wet to water-wet by significantly reducing the contact angle between displacement liquid and sandstone surface, capillary force is changed from the resistance force to the motive force, the residual oil is expelled from the small pores and the wall of pores, oil displacement efficiency is significantly increased.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 550-553)
• Pages: 468-471
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.550-553.468
• Online since: July 2012
• Authors: Fu Sheng Zhang, Jian Ouyang, De Wei Wang, Xin Fang Feng, Li Qing Xu
• Keywords: Contact Angle (CA), Interfacial Tension, Mobility Ratio, Oil Recovery

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