Publications by authors named "Lizhen Ge"

Polymer flooding is an effective development technology to enhance oil recovery, and it has been widely used all over the world. However, after long-term polymer flooding, a large number of oilfields have experienced a sharp decline in reservoir development efficiency. High water cut wells, serious dispersion of residual oil distribution and complex reservoir conditions all bring great challenges to enhance oil recovery.

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  • The LD oilfield shows improved recovery rates after weak gel flooding, but the distribution of remaining oil becomes complicated during high-water content stages.
  • Researchers conducted experiments using online NMR and microscopic techniques to better understand weak gel flooding effects and the remaining oil distribution.
  • Results indicated that weak gel flooding significantly enhances oil mobilization in porous media, leading to higher recovery efficiencies of 71.85% at 500 mD and 80.69% at 1500 mD compared to traditional methods.
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After large-scale and long-term waterflooding, reservoir physical properties such as the pore throat structure and rock wettability may change. In this paper, the relative permeability curves under different water injection volumes through core-flood experiments were used to characterize the comprehensive changes of various reservoir physical properties at high water-cut stage. The novel concept of "water cross-surface flux" was proposed to characterize the cumulative flushing effect on the reservoir by injected water, and a novel method for inverted five-spot reservoir simulation at high water-cut stage based on time-varying relative permeability curves was established.

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