Influence on Emulsification in Binary Flooding of Oil Displacement Effect

As one of the important mechanisms of EOR for SP binary flooding, emulsification attracts much attention of researchers. But there have not yet unified methods or clear understandings of evaluation of the emulsion function on flooding system and emulsification's impact on enhanced oil recovery. A comprehensive evaluation method of emulsifying properties is established in this paper for the first time. It characterizes the emulsifying properties of different flooding system by using the emulsifying integrated index, and examines the corresponding core flooding results of different emulsifying properties. Results of Berea core test show that the flooding system runs better with a higher emulsifying composite index in cores whose permeability is 300 similar to 400 mD. When emulsifying integrated index increases from 23.9% to 80.2%, the corresponding oil displacement efficiency reaches 12%. When emulsifying integrated index is under the medium level of 50% or less, the SP flooding system efficiency increases rapidly with the index changes, then increases slowly. The influencing rule of emulsification of SP binary flooding is obtained in this paper, which is important to optimize the formulation of SP binary flooding system, provide an important basis and technical support for the design of field experiments and SP flooding promotion.