Xinjiang Petroleum Geology ›› 2025, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (4): 448-456.doi: 10.7657/XJPG20250407

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Efficient Development Strategy for Ultra-Deep Fault-Controlled Volatile Reservoirs in Shunbei Oilfield

REN Wenbo1,2(), LIU Diren1, LI Xiaobo2, CAO Fei2, LIU Xueli2, DAI Jincheng2   

  1. 1. School of Geophysics and Petroleum Resources, Yangtze University, Wuhan, Hubei 430100, China
    2. Sinopec Northwest Oilfield Company, a. Research Institute of Exploration and Development; b.Key Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery in Fractured-Vuggy Carbonate Reservoirs, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830011, China
  • Received:2025-01-02 Revised:2025-02-05 Online:2025-08-01 Published:2025-07-25

Abstract:

The ultra-deep fault-controlled volatile reservoirs in Shunbei oilfield are characterized by great burial depth, significant thickness, and tabular distribution, with weak natural energy and rapid decline in both pressure and production during development. Early practice revealed that rapid water injection and high-rate gas injection tend to induce channeling through high-conductivity pathways between wells, compromising displacement efficiency and sweep volume. This paper presents a 3D composite gas-water injection-production strategy. To be specific, water injection is supplemented with gas injection for energy replenishment, so that injector-producer patterns are established with injecting water at lower position and producing oil from higher position, and injecting gas into higher position and producing oil from lower position, forming a 3D well pattern for composite gas-water injection and production. Water injection targets the unswept oil between wells and in middle-lower zones around wellbores, while gas injection displaces the oil at the top, thereby enhancing displacement efficiency and expanding sweep volume to ensure a long-term energy stability of the reservoir. Guided by this strategy, a typical composite gas-water drive unit is projected to enhance oil recovery by 26.0%, restore reservoir pressure by 9.0 MPa, reduce the gas-oil ratio to 820 m3/t, and increase flowing pressure to 45 MPa.

Key words: Shunbei oilfield, carbonate rock, fault-controlled, volatile reservoir, composite gas-water injection and production, development strategy

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