Optimization of Key Parameters of Fracturing Flooding Development in Offshore Reservoirs with Low Permeability Based on Numerical Modeling Approach

Fracturing flooding is a new technology that combines traditional conventional water drive, chemical drive, and hydraulic fracturing technologies and injects water under proximity fracture pressure to increase the wave area. It is currently applied in onshore low-permeability oilfields with good results, but the research on the design method of fracturing flooding in offshore low-permeability reservoirs is still lacking. Numerical simulation studies of well fracturing flooding are needed to optimize the key parameters of fracturing flooding development. This study simulates the real-time fracture dynamic expansion process of micro-level fracture expansion for hydraulic fracturing, combines it with a numerical simulation of well pressure-driving, and finally optimizes the parameters of hydraulic flooding. By studying the fracture expansion law, this study determined that the total amount of injection volume had a large influence on both fracture half-length and inflow capacity; the larger the injection rate, the larger the fracture half-length, but the inflow capacity was basically unchanged. It was also found that multiple rounds of fracturing flooding had no effect on fracture morphology or length. In studying the key fracturing flooding parameters in oil wells, it was concluded that the higher the total injection amount, the higher the oil increase in fracturing flooding and the wider the wave area of pressure-driving. Moreover, the higher the displacement, the higher the pressure near the bottom of the well, but there was little difference in the spreading area; in addition, the longer the well shut-in time, the higher the early oil production. Finally, these results were combined with the fracture expansion mechanism model and A21 well model, and the analysis of fracturing flooding parameters based on the simulation results allowed for the following recommendations to be made: the total amount of fracturing flooding injection should be 15,000 m3, the injection rate should be 6 m3/min, the simmering time should be 3–7 days, and only one round of fracturing flooding is required. The mechanism of fracture expansion revealed in this paper can guide the design of fracturing flooding programs in the process of reservoir fracturing flooding development, which is of some significance to the development of the fracturing flooding of offshore reservoirs with low permeability.