Novel Profile Control Treatment Using Pore-Scale Polymer Elastic Microspheres

Abstract:

In order to solve the deep profile control problem and improve oil recovery of the oilfield, a novel profile control agent pore-scale polymer elastic microspheres (PSPEMs) was synthesized. The swelling property of PSPEMs in aqueous solution was analyzed. Core flow test and double-tube sand pack models were used for studying profile control and flooding performance of PSPEMs in oil formation. The results show that PSPEMs have good swelling property in aqueous solution with high salinity, high temperature and high pressure. Fig 5 and Fig 6 show that PSPEMs are better than polyacrylamide polymer on profile control. Table 1 indicates PSPEMs can improve water injection profile of heterogeneous formation effectively and plug the high permeable layer first. The higher the concentration of PSPEMs, the shorter the time it spends to realize profile control. The results also confirm that use proper concentration of PSPEMs, the profile control efficiency can increase enormously.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 716)
• Pages: 413-417
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.716.413
• Online since: July 2013
• Authors: Lei Li, Xue Mei Gao, Guang Lun Lei, Xiao Dong Wei
• Keywords: Pore-Scale Polymer Elastic Microspheres, Profile Control, Reverse Micro-Suspension Polymerization, Shunt Rate, Swelling Ratio

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