Chang 7 Member shale oil reservoir in Ordos Basin, China is continental and shows characteristics of low porosity and permeability with poor reservoir connectivity. Oil displacement efficiency of this type is low, because water breaks through underground during water flooding. Shale oil in the basin has been developed by large-scale fracturing to increase water-oil contact thus to improve oil recovery rate. Oil recovered by water imbibition was proved to be effective, and both development practices and indoor experiments showed that shale oil recovered by water imbibition accounts for 15%-40% of the total, providing a new method for oil displacement in shale oil reservoir. In this study, open-boundary core system was used to quantitatively study the impacts of pore radius, interfacial tension and permeability on oil recovery by water imbibition underground. Indoor experiments showed that shale oil produced from pores with radius less than 10μm accounts for 56%-80% of the total; shale oil recovered by water imbibition peaks when interfacial tension is 1.18 mN/m; core permeability is positively correlated with imbibition recovery when interfacial tension is less than 2 mN/m, while the two are not significantly correlated when interfacial tension is higher than 4mN/m.
Keywords:Ordos Basin
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Chang 7 Member
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Shale oil
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Imbibition and displacement
WU Zhiyu, GAO Zhanwu, MA Shuwei, ZHAO Jiyong, SHI Jianchao, LI Zhen. Preliminary study on imbibition and oil displacement of Chang 7 shale oil in Ordos Basin. Natural Gas Geoscience[J], 2021, 32(12): 1874-1879 doi:10.11764/j.issn.1672-1926.2021.10.015
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Relationship between gas-measured permeability and movable oil saturation, imbibition saturation and displace-ment saturation of Chang 7 Member shale oil reservoir
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表5合水地区长7段页岩油不同渗透率区间可动油饱和度
Table 5 Movable oil saturation under different permeability intervals of Chang Member 7 shale oil reservoir in Heshui area
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