石油学报 ›› 2011, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (6): 1012-1016.DOI: 10.7623/syxb201106012

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非均质底水油藏水平井三维物理模拟实验

刘欣颖 1  胡  平 2   

  1. 1中国石油天然气勘探开发公司  北京  100034; 2北京温菲尔德石油技术开发有限公司技术中心  北京  100191
  • 收稿日期:2011-04-16 修回日期:2011-08-13 出版日期:2011-11-25 发布日期:2012-01-17
  • 通讯作者: 刘欣颖
  • 作者简介:刘欣颖,男,1982年6月生,2010年获中国石油大学(北京)油气田开发工程专业硕士学位,现为中国石油天然气勘探开发公司助理工程师,主要从事海外油气业务生产管理工作。

A 3-D visible physical experiment on horizontal wells of heterogeneous reservoirs with bottom water

LIU Xinying 1  HU Ping 2   

  • Received:2011-04-16 Revised:2011-08-13 Online:2011-11-25 Published:2012-01-17

摘要:

采用先进的三维可视化物理模拟实验设备,全程跟踪了水平井开采非均质底水油藏时底水的脊进过程,研究了平面非均质底水油藏中水脊的形成与发展机理。研究结果表明,当水平井相邻井段的渗透率级差大于4时,处于低渗透区的水平井段对产能无贡献,渗透率级差对水平井的影响只是相邻井段间的影响,不存在非相邻井段之间的交叉影响,确定了非均质性严重的底水油藏中水平井产能低的真正原因。针对平面非均质油藏,提出了“先高后低、封高补低”的开发策略,并为挖潜剩余油指明方向。非均质底水油藏中底水脊进的过程为倾斜推进—高渗突破—油井见水—沿井扩展—次高突破—分段水淹。平面非均质性沿水平井三段式分布时,水平井的含水率为台阶式上升模式,且台阶数与连续分布的高渗透层段的个数一致。

关键词: 非均质性, 底水油藏, 水平井, 三维可视化, 物理实验

Abstract:

The present paper used an advanced 3-D visible physical model to observe the whole water cresting process in heterogeneous reservoirs with bottom water, and further investigated its formation and development mechanisms. The results indicated that a well section located in a low-permeability area had no contribution to deliverability when the permeability contrast of adjacent sections of a horizontal well was greater than 4, and horizontal wells were affected only by the permeability contrast of adjacent well sections and there existed no cross influence of the permeability contrast among non-adjacent well sections, thus the real reason for a low deliverability of horizontal wells in very heterogeneous reservoirs with bottom water was identified. Based on the result of experiments, we proposed a strategy for developing horizontally heterogeneous reservoirs with bottom water: to exploit high permeability sections first and then low permeability sections and to block off high permeability sections before perforating low permeability sections. This designated a way to recover remaining oils from heterogeneous reservoirs. The bottom water cresting process of horizontally heterogeneous reservoirs was defined as: “slantwise advance of bottom water and breakthrough at higher permeability sections, extension along a horizontal wellbore as bottom water occurs, then breakthrough at lower permeability sections with successive waterflooding”. When the horizontal heterogeneity is distributed in a triple-step pattern along a horizontal well, the water cut of horizontal wells increases in a stepped-ascent mode, moreover, the step number is in accordance with the number of high permeability sections that are continuously distributed.

Key words: heterogeneity, reservoir with bottom water, horizontal well, 3-D visualization, physical experiment