Abstract

The crude oil reserves are very rich in the peripheral tight oil-water layer. However, due to the lack of effective production technical means, reserves utilization is relatively low. Imbibition flooding is one of the critical technical measures for the efficient development of (weak) hydrophilic tight oil-water layer. To obtain high efficiency production technology for weak hydrophilic tight oil-water layer, we investigated the imbibition flooding effect of negative/non-ionic surfactant “HLX”, “SYH (petroleum sulfonate) +Na2CO3”, cationic surfactant “YANG” and non-ionic surfactant “DCY” on weak hydrophilic core with permeability of about 2.0 × 10−3 μm2. The study results suggest that the imbibition recovery rate and imbibition rate are affected not only by the interfacial tension of the oil-water layer but also by the rock pore wettability. The physical simulation experimental results indicate that the “YANG” and “DCY” imbibition can change the wettability of rock pore surface and reduce the interfacial tension. Hence, the imbibition flooding effect is relatively good, and the recovery rate is significantly increased.

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