Field Practice of Improvement of Waterflooding Effect for a Naturally Fractured

Low-Permeability Field

In the Daqing oilfield, which is the biggest in China, naturally fractured reservoirs play

a significant role in maintaining a consistent production level throughout time.

However, as a result of the development over many years, many wells are becoming

low-efficiency wells, the production rate is quickly dropping, and the water cut has

grown significantly. In order to enhance the existing development effect, research was

carried out on how to improve the waterflood effect, and a pilot test was executed as a

result of the findings. The geological inquiry and the interdisciplinary investigation

were the first tasks to be completed. There exist natural fractures, according to the

results of the sourceless microseismic fracture monitoring technology. The statistical

results of sourceless microseismic testing of 36 wells indicate that there are a total of 94

fractures, with 23 east-west fractures accounting for 24.15 percent of the total, 11 north-

east fractures accounting for 11.17 percent, 33 east-west fractures accounting for 35.11

percent, and 27 north-south fractures accounting for 27.15 percent. Additionally, the

pressure accumulation cure demonstrates that there are inflexion points, which implies

that there are natural fractures. The injection-production adjustment plan and infill

drilling were created on the basis of the above-mentioned study findings, which were

achieved by merging thorough reservoir description with reservoir numerical modelling.

It was decided to conduct a field test in which the high watercut wells on the injection

line and the low production wells on the production line were converted to injection to

produce a line drive pattern. This field test in the Daqing field provides an excellent

opportunity to demonstrate a method for improving the development effect of a mature

naturally fractured reservoir, and to demonstrate that this method should be used as a

reference for improving the development effect of a field in the future.

We have reached the following conclusions as a consequence of the findings reported in

this paper: The ability to comprehend a fractured reservoir is a critical factor in the

effective development of a broken reservoir reservoir. The edge wells on the line of

injection wells are severely watered-out in the current state of the inverted nine spot

pattern, the development impact is poor, and the final recovery factor is 17.86 percent

OOIP. When the inverted nine spot pattern is realigned to a five spot well pattern, the

development effect becomes worse because the direction of the line of injecting wells is

almost the same as the direction of the fractures. Because the recovery factor is 14.00

percent OOIP and the direction of the fractures is almost the same, the development

effect becomes worse. When the inverted nine-spot well design is converted to a line

drive well pattern, the recovery efficiency increases to 21.64 percent OOIP, which is a

3.78 percent improvement over the inverted nine-spot pattern. The realignment of the

pattern in Gu 634 Block resulted in the pattern in the block changing from an inverted

nine spot pattern to a line drive pattern. As seen by the improvement in oil recovery and

water injection, our effort has increased the efficiency of waterflooding. 6. The

satisfactory outcomes of this realignment are providing encouragement for further

realignment projects in the Xinzhao Field that are scheduled for the next few years.