Wettability Effects on Oil-Recovery Mechanisms in Fractured Reservoirs
| Autor: | B.A. Baldwin, T. Bognø, E.A. Spinler, Arne Graue |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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| Zdroj: | SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering. 4:455-466 |
| ISSN: | 1930-0212 1094-6470 |
| DOI: | 10.2118/74335-pa |
| Popis: | Summary Iterative comparison between experimental work and numerical simulations has been used to predict oil-recovery mechanisms in fractured chalk as a function of wettability. Selective and reproducible alteration of wettability by aging in crude oil at an elevated temperature produced chalk blocks that were strongly water-wet and moderately water-wet, but with identical mineralogy and pore geometry. Large scale, nuclear-tracer, 2D-imaging experiments monitored the waterflooding of these blocks of chalk, first whole, then fractured. This data provided in-situ fluid saturations for validating numerical simulations and evaluating capillary pressure-and relative permeability-input data used in the simulations. Capillary pressure and relative permeabilities at each wettability condition were measured experimentally and used as input for the simulations. Optimization of either Pc-data or kr-curves gave indications of the validity of these input data. History matching both the production profile and the in-situ saturation distribution development gave higher confidence in the simulations than matching production profiles only. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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