Optimization of Surfactant Flooding in Tight Oil Reservoirs

Mohammad Lotfollahi, Mohammad Reza Beygi, Ali Abouie, Kamy Sepehrnoori, Mary F. Wheeler, David A. DiCarlo

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of relative permeability curves where the primary decreasing saturation curve is representative of any subsequent saturation increasing processes...

Numerical Investigation of Coupling Multiphase Flow and Geomechanical Effects on Water Loss During Hydraulic Fracturing Flow Back Operation

Mingyuan Wang, Juliana Leung

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...) with a shut-in duration of 16 weeks. Water-phase pressure and saturation profiles in the fracture and matrix systems during shut-in are shown in Fig. 6. Upon...

Controls On The Variability Of Fluid Properties Of Heavy Oils And Bitumens In Foreland Basins: A Case History From The Albertan Oil Sands, by Jennifer Adams, Barry Bennett, Haiping Huang, Tamer Koksalan, Dennis Jiang, Mathew Fay, Ian Gates, and Steve Larter, #40275, (2008).

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HFTS-2 Completions Design and State-of-the-Art Diagnostics Results

Nancy Zakhour, Matt Jones, Yu Zhao, Kate Orsini, Vinay Sahni

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... 2.5–3.0 bpm/perf and 10.0–12.5 bpm/PC. Based on the statistical analysis of hydraulic fracturing profiles with effective limited entry practices, Rate...

Pore Geometry of Sedimentary Rocks Elementary Capillary Theory

Perry O. Roehl

Bulletin of South Texas Geological Society

... and Permeability to Various Parameters Derived from Mercury Injection-Capillary Pressure Curves for Sandstone, Amer. Assn. Petroleum Geol., Bull., vol...

The Origin and Significance of Gas Saturation in Coalbed Methane Plays: Implications for Indonesia

Tim A. Moore, Sadiq J. Zarrouk

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of gas saturation on gas and water production profiles. Examples given are based on a simple-single layer (80 acres) generic model with one central...

Drilling an exploration prospect downdip: Quantifying the trade-offs between chance of success and associated resource potential

Mark Schneider, Gary P. Citron, Paul Haryott, and David Cook

AAPG Bulletin

... volume, the product of the reservoir area × gross thickness; N/G = net-to-gross; Φ = effective porosity; Sw = water saturation; RE = recovery efficiency...

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Andys Office

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... saturation with a lower degree of uncertainty. This parameter with a value less than two is due with a poral system associated to fracture...

Petrophysical Evaluation of the Bluesky Sand, Bassett Area, Alberta

James T. McCoy

CSPG Bulletin

...-saturation calculated from mercury-injection curves and that calculated from electric logs. This agreement indicates that the conversion of mercury...

Abstract: Implementation of Machine Learning for Petrophysical Reservoir Characterization in a complex Carbonate Reservoir, a Case study on Miocene Carbonate, offshore Gulf of Suez, Egypt; #91204 (2023)

Mona Farouk, Wael Shehata, Eslam Atwa, Mostafa Hagag

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... as a discriminator to generate a saturation heigh reservoir simulation and lead to production optimization and new opportunities to be .predicted Keywords...

Investigation of the Shale Electrical Resistivity Reversal Commonly Observed at the Wet- to Dry-Gas Transition

Stephen P. Cumella, Alan P. Byrnes, Mark D. Sonnenfeld

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... properties, porosity, and pore-size distribution. Two key variables are wettability and capillary pressure (Pc) which influence water saturation (Sw...

Use of Multiple Log Curves to Predict Permeability in a Dolomite Reservoir, San Andres of Welch Field, Dawson County, Texas

Gregory D. Hinterlong

West Texas Geological Society

...Use of Multiple Log Curves to Predict Permeability in a Dolomite Reservoir, San Andres of Welch Field, Dawson County, Texas Gregory D. Hinterlong...

Basin Architecture and Marcellus Resource Potential in the Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania

M. Soledad Velasco, Horace Snyder, Emmanuel Schnetzler, Maggie Baber

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... profiles to provide a more detailed understanding of the basin stratigraphy and structure. A 3-D inversion model was created based on the 2-D...

Nanotomography of Spontaneous Imbibition in Shale

Morteza Akbarabadi, Mohammad Piri

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the pore fluid occupancy and saturation of present phases at the end of each step. In this paper, first, we provide detailed information about the rock...

Simulation of Gas Adsorption and Capillary Condensation in Shale Nanopores Using Lattice Boltzmann Modeling

Rui Xu, Maša Prodanović, Christopher J. Landry

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... – 50 nm, as defined URTeC 2902821 2 by IUPAC), capillary condensation might occur at pressures below the bulk saturation pressure, while...

Abstract: Contact Angle Hysteresis at Smooth and Rough Surfaces; #90187 (2014)

Behrooz Raeesi, Norman R. Morrow, and Geoffrey Mason

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... tension. Apart from the drainage of refined oil being slightly low at high brine saturation, the three drainage curves shown in Fig. 6a are in agreement...

Flow Units in Shale Condensate Reservoirs

Roberto Aguilera

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... porosities the curves move in opposite directions. In Figure 5 the required data for building the water saturation lines are calculated with Eqs. 3...

Uncertainty Management in a Giant Fractured Carbonate Field, Oman, Using Experimental Design

Cathy Hollis, Simon Price, Harm Dijk, Lingli Wei, Daniela Frese, Michiel van Rijen, Mohamed Al Salhi

AAPG Special Volumes

...-oil relative permeability curves (Table 1) are based on the ranges from measured data within the field. As with the imbibition capillary pressure (Pc...

A Novel Experimental Approach for Dynamic Quantification of Liquid Saturation and Capillary Pressure in Shale

Williams Ozowe, Rodney Russell, Mukul Sharma

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... saturation is depicted in the form of pressure versus saturation plots i.e. the capillary pressure curves. Typical capillary pressure curves show...

Heavy Oil Resource Assessment Through Static Models: A Case Study of Tb-Tl Structure, Iliran High, South Sumatra, Indonesia

W. Romodhon, Luqman, E. Nadeak, D. J. Ramos, S. Radiansyah, S. Mulyani, A. Zakiyuddin

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... laboratory capillary pressure value was calculated using the following equation to obtain the critical water saturation for each core sample. Pclab  Pc...

Scaling for Wettability Alteration Induced by Addition of Surfactants in Completion Fluids: Surfactant Selection for Optimum Performance

Fan Zhang, I Wayan Rakananda Saputra, Imad Adel, David S. Schechter

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to the limitation of injectivity into shale cores, saturation, re-saturation and classic techniques such as the Amott or USBM techniques...

Integrated approach to pore typing in complex carbonate reservoirs, Tengiz and Korolev fields, Kazakhstan

Neil F. Hurley, Ted E. Playton, and Josephina Schembre-McCabe

AAPG Bulletin

.... (A) Drainage curve shows mercury saturation versus capillary pressure (Pc). Imbibition curve is not shown, but the recovery factor (RF) was 8.3% of mercury...

Microsampling Carbonates for Stable Isotope and Minor Element Analysis: Physical Separation of Samples on a 20 Micrometer Scale: RESEARCH METHOD PAPER

David L. Dettman , Kyger C Lohmann

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., Changes in carbon and oxygen isotope composition during limestone diagenesis: Sedimentology, v. 27, p. 107-118. DICKSON, J.A.D., SMALLEY, P.C....

Modeling and Simulation of Mass Transfer and Equilibrium in Tight Oil Formations

Marjan Sherafati, Kristian Jessen

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...pressure are observed close to the injection well, where larger amounts of the injected gas have diffused into the matrix blocks. Pc (atm) gas saturation (%) 80 ...

Image-Based Modeling of Flow in Natural Partially Cemented Fractures

Adenike Tokan-Lawal, Masa Prodanovic, Peter Eichubl

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...e), and were manufactured with a mean aperture of 0.24 mm and standard deviation of 0.05 mm.   Figure 7: (a) Curvature saturation curves for drainag...