A theoretical discussion and case study on the oil-charging throat threshold for tight reservoirs

作者:Zhang Hong*; Zhang Shuichang; Liu Shaobo; Hao Jiaqing; Zhao Mengjun; Tian Hua; Jiang Lin
来源:Petroleum Exploration and Development, 2014, 41(3): 408-416.
DOI:10.1016/S1876-3804(14)60047-1

摘要

By analyzing the relationship between throat threshold and fluid forces of oil charge in tight reservoirs and according to the oil-charging mechanical conditions, the lower limits of throat at the interface between source and reservoir rocks and in the middle of reservoirs were determined theoretically. On the basis of Young-Laplace formula and the equilibrium between driving forces and capillary resistance, the threshold models were set up by using the maximum driving forces near the source-and-reservoir interface and inside reservoirs respectively. They were applied to the Yanchang Formation in the Ordos Basin, the middle-lower Jurassic in the Sichuan Basin and the Bakken Formation in the Williston Basin in America. The corresponding results near the interface are 15.74 nm, 29.06 nm, and 14.22 nm, and the ones in the middle of reservoirs are 39.45 nm, 37.20 nm, and 52.32 nm respectively. Accordingly, the threshold permeabilities of the three typical tight oil reservoirs calculated are 0.002 1x10(-3) mu m(2), 0.006 1x10-3 mu m(2), 0.001 8x10(-3) mu m(2) near the interface and 0.010 0x10(-3) mu m(2), 0.009 4x10(-3) mu m(2), 0.016 9x10(-3) mu m(2) at the inner reservoirs. The rocks near the interface are complex, so there is a poor correlation between porosity and permeability, while inside reservoirs, homogeneous lithology results in good correlation between porosity and permeability. The porosity thresholds were determined as 2.16%, 2.00% and 3.50% respectively.

  • 出版日期2014-6
  • 单位北京大学; 中国石油天然气股份有限公司勘探开发研究院

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