Method used for exploiting natural gas hydrate reservoir

    公开(公告)号:US10344576B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-09

    申请号:US16215255

    申请日:2018-12-10

    IPC分类号: E21B43/24 E21B43/30 E21B47/00

    摘要: The example of implementation of the invention provides a method used for exploiting a natural gas hydrate reservoir and belongs to the field of natural gas hydrate reservoir exploitation. The method mainly comprises a heat-injecting vertical well and a production horizontal well. The production horizontal well is opened in a segmental manner. In combination with natural gas hydrate heat exploitation, heat flow injected into the vertical well is enabled to heat different positions of the natural gas hydrate reservoir to increase a recovery ratio of the natural gas hydrate reservoir. The method specifically comprises the steps of injecting a heat flow into the natural gas hydrate reservoir by utilizing the vertical well to promote decomposition of the hydrate; firstly opening a horizontal branch of the horizontal well fully and keeping depressurization exploitation. When gas production amount is reduced to a certain degree, dividing a segmentation number based on permeability of the natural gas hydrate reservoir and performing segmental exploitation on the horizontal branch from a toe end to a heel end to realize heat exploitation of the heterogeneous natural gas hydrate reservoir. The method makes full use of a horizontal well structure, reduces exploitation cost and provides effective measures for efficient exploitation of the heterogeneous natural gas hydrate reservoirs.

    Method for simulation of microscopic flow of pre-crosslinked gel suspension liquid in porous medium

    公开(公告)号:US10371859B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-06

    申请号:US15989861

    申请日:2018-05-25

    IPC分类号: G01V99/00 G06F17/50 G01V11/00

    摘要: Disclosed is a method for simulation of a microscopic flow of pre-crosslinked gel suspension liquid in a porous medium, including the steps of: establishing a simulation area of the porous medium based on a two-dimensional core CT slice image and subjecting the simulation area to numerical grid discretization; setting initial position and original shape of pre-crosslinked gel particles to generate virtual boundary mark points; marking the type of numeric grid nodes; calculating the force of the fluid on each virtual boundary mark point according to the momentum change of the numerical grid nodes on the boundary of the pre-crosslinked gel particles; calculating the contact force on each virtual boundary mark point using a particle contact action model; calculating the bending recovery force and the stretching recovery force for each virtual boundary mark point based on the current shape and original shape of the pre-crosslinked gel particles; and calculating the velocity and displacement of each virtual boundary mark point based on Newton's second law, wherein the respective virtual boundary mark points are connected to obtain the overall shape and position of the pre-crosslinked gel particles.

    Encapsulated polymer flooding method and system for enhancing oil recovery

    公开(公告)号:US11912932B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-27

    申请号:US18338816

    申请日:2023-06-21

    IPC分类号: E21B43/34 C09K8/588 C09K8/92

    CPC分类号: C09K8/588 C09K8/92

    摘要: An encapsulated polymer flooding method and system for enhancing oil recovery includes: (1) determining reservoir parameters, a well deployment, and a development dynamic state of a target oil reservoir; (2) determining a near-wellbore targeted profile control area and a far-wellbore targeted viscosification area; (3) designing and synthesizing an encapsulated polymer according to conditions of the target oil reservoir; (4) evaluating and determining whether the anti-shearing performance, the sustained release and viscosification performance, the injection performance, and the profile control performance of the encapsulated polymer meet expected performance requirements based on laboratory tests; (5) formulating an injection scheme for an encapsulated polymer flooding field; and (6) monitoring the development dynamic state of the oil reservoir; according to the present disclosure, the polymer is wrapped with a shell layer, which greatly reduces the shear degradation during injection of the polymer and effectively reduces the cost.

    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING WATER FLOODING RECOVERY OF FAULT BLOCK RESERVOIRS CONSIDERING WHOLE PROCESS OPTIMIZATION

    公开(公告)号:US20240152672A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-09

    申请号:US18067793

    申请日:2022-12-19

    IPC分类号: G06F30/28

    CPC分类号: G06F30/28

    摘要: A method and system for predicting water flooding recovery of fault block reservoirs considering a whole process optimization includes: determining influencing factors in water flooding recovery of fault block reservoirs; screening master parameters of the water flooding recovery of the fault block reservoirs; determining a single-factor correlation between the water flooding recovery of the fault block reservoirs and the master parameters; designing multi-factor orthogonal experimental schemes; performing a whole-process water flooding optimization for each of the experimental schemes including separate-layer injection and production, well-type conversion, and injection and production adjustment, to obtain the maximum water flooding recovery; and determining a prediction model of the water flooding recovery of the fault block reservoirs using least square method based on results of the whole process optimization of orthogonal experiments, further obtaining a prediction model of the water flooding recovery of the fault block reservoirs.