A study of the mechanism of enhancing oil recovery using supercritical carbon dioxide microemulsions

作     者：Dong Zhaoxia Li Yi Lin Meiqin Li Mingyuan 

作者机构：Enhanced Oil Recovery Research InstituteChina University of Petroleum Beijing Key Laboratory for Greenhouse Gas Storage and Enhanced Oil Recovery Key Laboratory of Enhanced Oil RecoveryCNPC 

出 版 物：《Petroleum Science》 (石油科学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2013年第10卷第1期

页      面：91-96页

核心收录：

学科分类：0709[理学-地质学] 0819[工学-矿业工程] 0808[工学-电气工程] 08[工学] 0820[工学-石油与天然气工程] 0707[理学-海洋科学] 0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 0818[工学-地质资源与地质工程] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 0807[工学-动力工程及工程热物理] 0815[工学-水利工程] 0816[工学-测绘科学与技术] 0827[工学-核科学与技术] 0813[工学-建筑学] 0703[理学-化学] 0814[工学-土木工程] 0825[工学-航空宇航科学与技术] 0704[理学-天文学] 082002[工学-油气田开发工程] 

基　　金：support from the National Natural Science Fund (50904073) the CNPC Science and Technology Innovation Fund (2008D-5006-02-06) 

主　　题：Supercritical carbon dioxide microemulsion MMP enhancing oil recovery 

摘      要：Supercritical carbon dioxide （scCO2） microemulsion was formed by supercritical CO2, H20, sodium bis（2-ethylhexyl） sulfosuccinate （AOT, surfactant） and C2HsOH （co-surfactant） under pressures higher than 8 MPa at 45 ℃. The fundamental characteristics of the scCO2 microemulsion and the minimum miscibility pressure （MMP） with Daqing oil were investigated with a high-pressure falling sphere viscometer, a high-pressure interfacial tension meter, a PVT cell and a slim tube test. The mechanism of the scCO2 microemulsion for enhancing oil recovery is discussed. The results showed that the viscosity and density of the scCO2 microemulsion were higher than those of the scCO2 fluid at the same pressure and temperature. The results of interfacial tension and slim tube tests indicated that the MMP of the scCO2 microemulsion and crude oil was lower than that of the scCO2 and crude oil at 45 ℃. It is the combined action of viscosity, density and MMP which made the oil recovery efficiency of the scCO2 microemulsion higher than that of the scCO2 fluid.