Abstract:Most of the onshore oilfields in China have already entered in high and ultra-high water cut stage, and the extraction is becoming more and more difficult, so it is increasingly important to select the enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technologies suitable for the reservoir characteristics to stabilize and increase the oilfield production. This paper combs out the list of EOR technologies applied and to be adopted in China"s oil fields, proposes a technology maturity assessment method for EOR technologies in middle and late Chinese oilfield development, corresponds technology maturity levels to technology life cycles, draws Hype Cycles, and discusses the future development routes of various types of EOR technologies. The results show that cyclic steam stimulation, steam flooding and polymer flooding are basically mature and have been widely applied in fields with suitable reservoir types and geological characteristics. For the heavy oil thermal recovery, the scale and type of field experiments should be expanded further. For the water flooding, the understanding and representation precision of geological reservoirs must be strengthened. For the chemical flooding, the economic, environmentally friendly and stable Formulation optimization need to be tackled. For the gas injection, need to break through the bottleneck of gas supply. For the microbial flooding, the scale of experiments should be expanded, and the experimental effect should be enhanced. For the advanced disruptive technologies, a lot of basic research, pilot test, technology research test and mine test should be tested in the field further.