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X reservoir is a high temperature (97 ?), high salinity (TDS 204600 mg/L, divalent cation 11480.34 mg/L), middle-low permeability sandstone reservoir located in Tarim Basin (China). Serious vertical and lateral heterogeneity of formations resulted in the injection water channeling from higher permeability pathways. The harsh conditions make it difficult to further improve oil recovery. This paper provides a micro-scale preformed particle gels (micro-PPG)/surfactant EOR process for X reservoir. The micro-PPG with a...

Foam flooding is a promising enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method for water-flooded reservoir due to its good mobility control capability. When foam is injected into oil reservoirs, it will contact with oil, and oil will affect the performance of foam. Therefore, the effect of oil on the properties of foam has always been a key research topic for foaming flooding, but it is also a very controversial subject. Many researchers reported that the presence of oil is detrimental for foam stability, but some others believe...