Use of Diverter Compositions for Enhancing the Effectiveness of Oil Recovery from Productive Deposits

Abstract:

One of the most important aspects in the activities of oil companies in the Western Siberia is to improve the effectiveness of water-flooding as the main method of impact on the formation. This is due to the fact that at the present time reservoirs of a complex structure with difficult to recover reserves prevail among newly introduced development objects, the extraction of which is extremely difficult using a simple method of water injection volumes regulation. First of all, this refers to reservoirs of Jurassic deposits, which are characterized by the most complex geological structure and porosity and permeability properties. A promising direction in improving the water-flooding system at such objects is the use of physical and chemical technologies to enhance the oil recovery of formations, and primarily, referring to the diverter technology. The research objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of using “hard” type diverter compositions to enhance oil recovery of formations. With the help of detailed oil-field analysis and field-geophysical studies, the nature of the development of oil reserves for Jurassic development sites has been assessed.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 785)
• Pages: 159-170
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.785.159
• Online since: October 2018
• Authors: Vadim Aleksandrov, Kirill Galinskij, Andrey Ponomarev, Vadim Golozubenko, Yuriy Sivkov
• Keywords: Difficult to Recover Reserves, Flooding, Jurassic Deposits, Methods to Enhance Oil Recovery, Reservoirs of a Complex Structure

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