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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Biqian-10 block, located in Henan Oilfield of Sinopic, contains many thin and interbedded reservoirs, which have been operated by cyclic steam stimulation for 20 years or more. Therefore, it is a challenge to implement the conventional steam flooding. In order to improve the recovery of steam flooding, urea was used to assist steam flooding. Urea can decompose into CO₂ and NH₃, which are beneficial to enhance oil recovery (EOR). For the sake of exactly quantifying the mechanism of urea assisted steam flooding (UASF), the UASF model was built according to the experimental results. The simulation results show that CO₂ is the key point for EOR, and its pressurization function is more effective than the decrease in oil viscosity by dissolving CO₂. The emulsification of crude oil for NH₃ is weak in interfacial tension tests; thus the effect of emulsification can be ignored in the simulation. The UASF can improve the recovery by about 17.4%, which is 6.8% higher than steam flooding.</span></span>