Research on Remaining Oil Characterization in Superheavy Oil Reservoir by Microgravity Exploration

Some physical processes such as oil and gas development, metal deposit collection, and groundwater resource migration can cause density changes, for which microgravity monitoring is the most intuitive method to monitor the density change process. Based on the basic principle of microgravity measurem...

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Main Authors: Qijun Lv, Aiping Zheng, Xiangjin Liang, Hongfei Chen, Shichang Ju, Yanchong Meng, Hongyuan Zhang, Guolin He, Shenshen Deng, Junfang Li
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Published: Wiley 2022-01-01
Series:Geofluids
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/1210780
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Aiping Zheng
Xiangjin Liang
Hongfei Chen
Shichang Ju
Yanchong Meng
Hongyuan Zhang
Guolin He
Shenshen Deng
Junfang Li
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Aiping Zheng
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description Some physical processes such as oil and gas development, metal deposit collection, and groundwater resource migration can cause density changes, for which microgravity monitoring is the most intuitive method to monitor the density change process. Based on the basic principle of microgravity measurement and the idea of multiscale separation, a multiscale, second-order, surface-fitting, residual gravity anomaly extraction method is proposed to separate superimposed microgravity fields. In this method, regional fields of different scales are fitted and calculated successively with the measurement points as the center, so as to separate the gravity anomalies produced by different-depth density bodies. Results from actual data show that this method extracts the reservoir’s residual density characteristics of plane gravity anomaly on the basis of remaining oil distribution characteristics, consistent with reservoir numerical simulation results. A three-dimensional least-squares inversion of the method for extracting residual gravity anomaly was carried out, with the inversion results consistent with the results of vertical remaining oil distribution characteristics and well-test production results.
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spelling doaj-art-0a9bf1f624f74719af9a352ffac0adeb2025-08-20T03:55:27ZengWileyGeofluids1468-81232022-01-01202210.1155/2022/1210780Research on Remaining Oil Characterization in Superheavy Oil Reservoir by Microgravity ExplorationQijun Lv0Aiping Zheng1Xiangjin Liang2Hongfei Chen3Shichang Ju4Yanchong Meng5Hongyuan Zhang6Guolin He7Shenshen Deng8Junfang Li9PetroChina Xinjiang Oilfield CompanyPetroChina Xinjiang Oilfield CompanyPetroChina Xinjiang Oilfield CompanyPetroChina Xinjiang Oilfield CompanyPetroChina Xinjiang Oilfield CompanyPetroChina Xinjiang Oilfield CompanyPetroChina Xinjiang Oilfield CompanyThird Geological Brigade of Hubei Geological BureauBeijing Zhongke Energy Geophysical Technology Co.PetroChina Xinjiang Oilfield CompanySome physical processes such as oil and gas development, metal deposit collection, and groundwater resource migration can cause density changes, for which microgravity monitoring is the most intuitive method to monitor the density change process. Based on the basic principle of microgravity measurement and the idea of multiscale separation, a multiscale, second-order, surface-fitting, residual gravity anomaly extraction method is proposed to separate superimposed microgravity fields. In this method, regional fields of different scales are fitted and calculated successively with the measurement points as the center, so as to separate the gravity anomalies produced by different-depth density bodies. Results from actual data show that this method extracts the reservoir’s residual density characteristics of plane gravity anomaly on the basis of remaining oil distribution characteristics, consistent with reservoir numerical simulation results. A three-dimensional least-squares inversion of the method for extracting residual gravity anomaly was carried out, with the inversion results consistent with the results of vertical remaining oil distribution characteristics and well-test production results.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/1210780
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Research on Remaining Oil Characterization in Superheavy Oil Reservoir by Microgravity Exploration
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title_short Research on Remaining Oil Characterization in Superheavy Oil Reservoir by Microgravity Exploration
title_sort research on remaining oil characterization in superheavy oil reservoir by microgravity exploration
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