The Experiences and Lessons Learned from the Development of High Temperature and High Pressure Buried Hillss Reservoir

Abstract

The Archean buried hillss reservoir of Z Oilfield is the first one developed in the Bohai Bay Basin in recent years. In order to develop the offshore metamorphic buried hillss reservoir with limited wells, several solutions were present in the process of ODP (Overall Development Plan) implementation. The characterization and quantitative description of fracture: The seismic forward modeling was used to identify the relationship between seismic attributes and fracture. The results showed that pre-stack shear wave impedance inversion could predict favorable reservoir development and the different frequency properties could detect the fracture. Furthermore, the rock stress field simulation based on rock physical properties was implemented to study the direction of fracture, the detailed characterization of fractured system, the quantitative prediction of high quality reservoir space distribution including porosity of fracture. This paper studied the development mechanism of buried hills reservoir with double system-fracture and matrix by comprehensive physical simulation, numerical simulation and other data. A new injection-production pattern named PT-IB (produced wells on the top of hills and injected wells in the bottom of hills) was proposed to maximize recovery factor. A new method was adopted to avoid the injected water channeling along the fractures and to enlarge the sweep efficiency by periodic change flow field. This paper also put forward a plan about early warning and judging the water channeling based on improved water oil ratio and water oil ratio derivative curve.