Estimation of the Influence of Associated Petroleum Gas with a High Carbon Dioxide Content on the Oil Displacement Regime in the Development of the Tolumskoye Field

Abstract

Depending on reservoir conditions, composition of reservoir oil and gas agent, various modes of oil displacement by gas can be implemented in reservoir conditions. The most preferable mode from the standpoint of the completeness of oil recovery is the mode of miscible displacement of oil by gas. The main parameter indicating the achievement of the miscible displacement mode is the minimum miscibility pressure. The most popular and reliable laboratory method for determining the minimum mixing pressure is the slim-tube method. The results of laboratory studies performed to determine the value of the minimum miscibility pressure of reservoir oil from the Tolumskoye field and associated petroleum gas of the Semividovskaya group of fields and also to determine the mode of oil displacement by associated petroleum gas are presented. To determine the parameters of reservoir oil and change its properties at various molar concentrations, the standard PVT research technique was used. To determine the minimum miscibility pressure, the slim-tube technique was used. To assess the mechanism of miscibility process development, chromatographic analysis of the sampled gas composition and visual analysis of the phase fluids behavior by means of a visual cell were additionally performed. Two series of filtration experiments were performed to displace the recombined oil model of the Tolumskoye field by the model of associated petroleum gas from the Semividovskaya group of fields on slim models. According to the obtained dependence of the oil displacement coefficient on pressure, when oil from the Tolumskoye field was displaced by associated petroleum gas of the Semividovskaya group of fields, the minimum miscibility pressure would be 14.8 MPa. Based on the criteria for determining the mixing mode, as a result of generalization and comprehensive analysis of the research results, it was found that for the conditions of the Tolumskoye field, the mode of oil displacement by associated petroleum gas of the Semividovskaya group of fields was the mode of the developed multi-contact miscible displacement (the mechanism of condensation of solvent components into the oil phase).