Study on the supercritical phase behavior of Yaha condensate gas reservoir in Tarim Basin

Abstract

Yaha condensate gas reservoir is condensate gas reservoir developed by gas injection in the Tarim Basin. The practice of gas injection in condensate gas reservoir shows that the key to improve gas injection effect is to control gas channeling. Dynamic monitoring shows that there is no instantaneous miscibility between dry gas and condensate gas during gas injection. Based on the principle of entropy increase and mass transfer kinetics, the phase behavior of condensate gas and dry gas in reservoir is analyzed theoretically. The new technique to improve condensate recovery is adopted for condensate gas field. By using the density difference and seepage characteristics of dry gas and condensate gas, the injected dry gas cap is formed at the top of the gas reservoir, and the three-dimensional displacement is realized by the expansion of dry gas cap. Gas injection gravity assisted flooding technology is to realize vertical displacement of injected gas through the expansion of dry gas cap by using gravity differentiation caused by gas density difference. This technology can keep the front edge of gas injection advance evenly and solve the problem of gas channeling in the process of cyclic gas injection.

Keywords

Supercritical fluid / Condensate / Dry gas / Phase state

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