Application of Pulse Neutron Oxygen Activation Logging in Carbon Dioxide Injection Wells

Abstract

Carbon dioxide injection to improve oil recovery is an important link in carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) and an important means of tertiary oil recovery. Conducting gas injection profile logging in injection wells can reflect the inter-and intra-layer suction differences in gas injection wells, reveal the contradictions between injection and production, and provide a basis for gas plugging and profile control; The integrity of the wellbore is an important part of the storage stage of CCUS, which directly determines the burial and storage effect, and wellbore leakage directly affects the gas injection and oil displacement effect; The inspiratory index test can evaluate the formation's gas absorption capacity and provide a reasonable injection pressure of the formation at this stage. Since carbon dioxide gas usually exists in a supercritical fluid state in the wellbore, traditional logging techniques have certain limitations. This paper focuses on the adaptability research of pulse neutron oxygen activation logging principle and construction technology, and combined with the application example of gas injection wells in CCUS block of Huang3 District in Changqing Oilfield, it is clarified that the pulse neutron oxygen activation logging can be used to carry out suction profiling, suction index testing and wellbore integrity evaluation in carbon dioxide injection wells, and it has good application effects.