About flooding of low-permeable formations

Abstract

Due to the depletion of hydrocarbon reserves in traditional reservoirs with good filtration and reservoir properties, there is currently increasing interest in hard-to-recover reserves, and the main difficulty in developing such reservoirs is the efficiency of reservoir pressure maintenance systems. When developing low-permeability reservoirs, various mechanisms of oil displacement during flooding can be distinguished. For reservoirs with permeability less than 1 mD, there is no need to maintain high wellhead pressure; moreover, with a large accumulated compensation, stopping the maintenance of reservoir pressure for up to six months does not lead to a drop in production, which creates the prerequisites for organizing cyclic flooding. This will solve a number of problems that arise while maintaining reservoir pressure when working in such conditions.
 The facies structure of reservoirs sometimes has a decisive influence on the performance of wells and their interinfluence. The transition to the development of fields with a complex geological structure, low filtration characteristics of the formation, the existence of geological bodies with different properties requires not only careful formation of a conceptual understanding of the field, but also the creation of detailed facies digital maps taking into account the existence of zones with different sedimentation, which, as a consequence, creates zones with different filtration and capacitance properties, requiring different approaches to development.