Most of the Russian oil fields consist of the complex reservoirs and it is required to apply secondary reservoir development methods, such as waterflooding, in order to increase reservoir development efficiency. However, for highly heterogeneous reservoir with viscous oil, "classical" waterflooding is not enough and there is a need to use enhanced oil recovery methods, one of which is polymer flooding. The prospects polymer solutions injection have been proved in different fields worldwide, including the East-Messoyakhskoye field at the PK1-3 reservoir with high-viscosity oil. At this field, polymer flooding pilots were carried out and taking into account the obtained field data, the geological and dynamic model were updated, which helped to improve the process physics understanding and evaluate the possibility of sweep efficiency increase during project implementation. This paper describes the challenges, difficulties, applied approaches, results and experience obtained in reservoir simulation of polymer flooding.

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