... with regulations, and to minimize environmental impacts. To characterize rock-fluid properties, special core analysis (SCAL) is used. Those tests include the evaluation of the wettability, capillary pressure, and relative permeability between other properties. There are several SCAL methods that have been adopted...

... injectivity loss. This study investigates the impacts of capillary pressure and permeability heterogeneity on the formation of hydrates during CO 2 storage in depleted gas reservoirs. A compositional thermal reservoir simulator is used to model the fluid and heat flow of CO 2 in methane and water-saturated...

... Abstract Capillary pressure measurements on shale and tight core samples have revealed that this parameter can reach hundreds or even thousands of psi at reservoir conditions. A high pressure difference between the fluid phases can significantly affect the multiphase flow in the reservoir...

...Introduction Statement of Theory and Definitions The proposed workflow, aimed at modeling grain size and capillary pressure by integrating NMR well logs and core data, encompasses a range of critical techniques and concepts that form the foundation of the petrophysical models...

... the relative permeability characteristics to standard rock-types stemming from porosity, permeability and capillary pressure. However, as soon as the number of relative permeability curves is significant, they can be processed under the machine learning methodology stated by this paper. The process leads...

... is presented when the amount of wetting liquid volume connected to the pore is altered through changing the boundary conditions (cases 1 and 2). Moreover, the effect of drier surrounding medium and/or drier pores is also tested by increasing either the capillary pressure surrounding the pore or the capillary...

... performance carbonate reservoir capillary pressure complex reservoir simulation core analysis ift Introduction The pore scale displacement of WAG at near-miscible condition differs significantly from that of immiscible WAG in mixed-wet systems. Sohrabi et al. (2005, 2008a, 2008b) designed...

.... In this work, several experiments were carried out including coreflooding, capillary pressure, and relative permeability measurements. The profiles of condensate saturations show that GS can mitigate the condensate bank by 84%, while TCF removed around 63% of the condensate liquid. Also, GS and TCF...

... space solid surface three-phase contact line determination capillary pressure Introduction and Motivation The pore-scale configuration of fluid phases is controlled by pore structure and wettability, quantified by the contact angle at which two fluid phases meet the solid surface, measured...

... micro-droplets within the oil and the expansion of thin water films between the oil and rock surface. Before waterflooding and during HSW, the measured contact angles were constant and above 110 o , while the mean curvature and the capillary pressure values remained negative, suggesting that the HSB did...

... simulation initial oil saturation injection flow in porous media modeling contact angle oil injection secondary oil injection capillary pressure pore-network simulation Introduction Reservoir wettability is a rock property of great significance to petroleum and environmental engineers...

... Abstract In this work, the pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann method is employed to study the phase equilibrium in confined space. The role of capillary pressure and fluid-solid interaction are evaluated separately. In the absence of solid walls, our pore-scale simulation is consistent...

... shut-in time productivity saturation initial water saturation shut-in period frictional pressure optimum shut-in time capillary pressure viscosity propagation flowback core sample interfacial tension permeability Introduction A common industry practice after hydraulically...

... of each slice. For each slice, water saturation and the capillary pressure applied to it during centrifugation are also known. Let Pc 1 and Pc 2 be the capillary pressures applied to two adjacent slices and let γ be the water-air interfacial tension. Subtracting the T2 distributions of the two...

... and diffusion of the CO 2 / n -decane mixtures in the nanopores. The Peng-Robinson (PR) equation of state is combined with Young-Laplace equation to calculate the phase-composition diagram at the presence of capillary pressure. The equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations (MDS) are also conducted to study...

... mechanisms in these processes (diffusion, dispersion, advection and capillary pressure) were examined within the context of the derived scaling groups using reservoir simulation of SBH at three different geometric scales, ranging from the laboratory scale through a semi-field scale to the field scale...

.... In a voxel-based image, these have a staircase shape which is first smoothed (see Alratrout et al., 2017 ). Then the curvature of the smoothed surface can be computed. Using the Young-Laplace equation we can find the capillary pressure: (1)   P c = 2 σ κ =   σ ( κ 1 + κ 1...

... with realistic fracture geometry and conductivity. The core-scale model was created to determine the diffusion coefficient, relative permeability, and capillary pressure curves by history-matching the laboratory data. The field-scale model was developed with a dual-porosity compositional model to predict...

... to the critical property shift which can be described by our upscaled PR-C EOS, capillary pressure is also taken into account into the compositional simulation. Results show that the capillary pressure has different effects on production in terms of the fluid type, leading to a lower producing Gas/Oil ratio (GOR...

... in the matrix with an explicit time scheme. Pressure is implicit in the whole domain. Our algorithm accounts for different types of grids in 2D and in 3D. Artificial Intelligence Fluid Dynamics fracture network injection reservoir simulation zidane algorithm capillary pressure Upstream Oil...