The flow law of immiscible fluids in porous media plays an important role in the development of oil and gas fields. In the process of water flooding reservoir development, when the water phase displaces the oil phase, a fluid with higher viscosity, as a fluid with lower viscosity, the oil-water interface will always be unstable, resulting in different fingering effects. After water flooding, the distribution law of oil and water in the reservoir is mainly affected by the fluid intrusion mechanism. Due to the difference of capillary force, viscous force, and other microscopic forces, the fluid intrusion mechanism is mainly divided into two types: viscous fingering and capillary fingering. At the same time, due to the influence of reservoir heterogeneity, the fingering effect in the process of water displacement in porous media will be influenced to a certain extent. Based on the two-dimensional microscopic visualization experiment, this paper extracted the variance of the static parameter G in the capillary number calculation method of the two-dimensional microscopic model to represent the heterogeneity and conducted displacement experiments with different viscosities and flow rates to study the influence of the flow rate, viscosity, and heterogeneity on the results of water flooding. The experiments found that as for the influence of flow velocity, with the increase of flow velocity, that is, with the increase of capillary number, the recovery degree decreases first and then increases. As for the influence of viscosity, from a numerical point of view, the displacement efficiency and conformance coefficient of the low-viscosity group are higher than those of the high-viscosity group. From the trend, with the increase of the capillary number, the displacement efficiency of both the low-viscosity and high-viscosity groups increases, while the conformance coefficient decreases first and then increases, indicating that capillary fingering and viscous fingering can occur in different viscosity reservoirs. As for the influence of heterogeneity, the conformance coefficient of the water flooding decreases with the increase of heterogeneity, and the viscous pointing trend caused by heterogeneity is stronger, resulting in an uneven water injection sweep and higher oil displacement efficiency within the swept area. It can be seen from the fluid intrusion mechanism diagram that with the increase of heterogeneity, the viscous fingering trend becomes more obvious; with the increase of viscosity, the fluid intrusion mechanism boundary moves down and the viscous fingering trend becomes more obvious.
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