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Capillary Dynamics of Nanoconfined Water and CO 2 Induced by Time-Dependent Wettability Alteration
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Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, September 23–25, 2024
Paper Number: SPE-220990-MS
... Abstract Formation wettability alteration (WA) is ubiquitous in nature and relevant to many applications spanning from geological CO 2 storage to enhanced oil/gas recovery. WA and the induced capillary dynamics are of great significance in caprocks and shale reservoirs. However, the impact...
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Tailored Metal Oxide Nanoparticles-Based Fluids in Acid Restimulation Treatments Reverses Long-Term Hydrocarbon Decline: A Pilot Study in Wolfcamp (A) Formation
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Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, October 16–18, 2023
Paper Number: SPE-215039-MS
... cut in all wells decreased to about 96%. The TMO Nanofluid worked by providing a unique long-term wettability alteration, reducing the interfacial tension, allowing the chemicals to be retained in the fracture/reservoir phase. It also functions to remove near-wellbore organic formation damage via...
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Dynamics of Surfactant Imbibition in Unconventional Reservoir Cores
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Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, October 16–18, 2023
Paper Number: SPE-214874-MS
... the physicochemical properties of these fluids, encompassing phase behavior, density, viscosity, and wettability alteration, with the aim of establishing fundamental knowledge in the field. Imbibition tests were carried out on oil-wet cores to observe the response of oil production and optimize the experimental...
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Is Smart Water Flooding Smarter Than Seawater Flooding in a Fractured Chalk Reservoir?
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Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, October 3–5, 2022
Paper Number: SPE-210042-MS
... improving oil recovery beyond that obtained by standard waterflooding, due to wettability alteration, which improves reservoir sweep efficiency. However, to be economically viable compared to seawater injection, the Smart Water must be cheap, easily available, and must substantially improve oil production...
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Wettability Alteration of Kerogen by Interacting with Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid
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Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, October 3–5, 2022
Paper Number: SPE-210246-MS
... wettability alterations in organic pores and fractures that depend on the types and maturities of kerogen. The DSA results indicated that the air/water-contact angle decreases after the reaction, regardless of the types and maturities of kerogen, while the higher level of maturity of kerogen led to a greater...
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Mitigation of Gas Condensate Banking Using Thermochemical Fluids and Gemini Surfactant: A Comparison Study
Available to PurchaseAmjed Hassan, Mohamed Mahmoud, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdulaziz Al-Majed, Ayman Al-Nakhli, Syed Muhammad Shakil Hussain, Shirish Patil
Publisher: Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, September 21–23, 2021
Paper Number: SPE-206023-MS
... treatments can increase the relative permeability to condensate liquid by factors of 1.89 and 1.22 respectively, due to the wettability alteration mechanism. Capillary pressure calculations show that GS can reduce the capillary pressure by around 40% on average, while TCF leads to a 70% reduction...
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Cost-Effective Chemical EOR for Heterogenous Carbonate Reservoirs Using a Ketone-Surfactant System
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Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, September 21–23, 2021
Paper Number: SPE-205910-MS
... interfacial tension (IFT) reduction by surfactant, capillary imbibition, favorable wettability alteration by ketone, and osmotic low-salinity brine imbibition. The IFT decreased to 1.79 mN/m upon addition of non-ionic surfactant to low-salinity brine, and it reduced to 2.96 mN/m in a mixture of 3-pentanone...
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Condensate Recovery from Tight Gas-Condensate Reservoirs using a new Method Based on a Gas-Based Chemical
Available to PurchaseAbdulelah Nasieef, Mahmoud Jamiolahmady, Hosein Doryanidaryuni, Alejandro Restrepo, Alonso Ocampo, Toushar Chakrabarty, Ifeanyi Seteyeobot
Publisher: Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, September 21–23, 2021
Paper Number: SPE-206080-MS
... chemical treatment petroleum engineer complex reservoir simulation production data pure depletion reservoir condensate saturation commercial reservoir simulator equilibrated gas wettability alteration experimental data Introduction Conventional gas resources are at their last stages...
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An Investigation on the Process of Re-Imbibition of Oil and its Impact on Oil Recovery in the Yates Field
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Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, September 21–23, 2021
Paper Number: SPE-206327-MS
.... The improved understanding of wettability alteration should lead to advancements in chemical enhanced oil recovery designs for field treatments. upstream oil & gas imbibition test surfactant complex reservoir mechanism application chemical flooding methods oil phase experiment enhanced...
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Analytical Solutions for the Injection of Wettability Modifiers in Carbonate Reservoirs Based on a Reduced Surface Complexation Model
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Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, September 21–23, 2021
Paper Number: SPE-206088-MS
... Abstract The potential of tuned-composition waterflooding to enhance oil recovery from carbonate reservoirs has been widely investigated in the literature. The consensus is that wettability alteration occurs because of the electrostatic interactions between the carbonate rock surface...
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Glycine for Enhanced Water Imbibition in Carbonate Reservoirs – What is the Role of Amino Group?
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Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, September 21–23, 2021
Paper Number: SPE-206294-MS
... The potential application of acetate and formate as a wettability alteration method comes from the expected interaction between a positively charged calcite surface and a carboxyl group. In this research, therefore, we aim to verify once again the efficacy of glycine and compare it to possibly...
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Dynamics of Wettability Alteration from Alkali/Nanoparticles/Polymer Flooding - Integrating Data of Imbibition, Contact Angle and Interfacial-Tension to Screen Injection Agents
Available to PurchaseRafael E. Hincapie, Ante Borovina, Elisabeth Neubauer, Samhar Saleh, Vladislav Arekhov, Magdalena Biernat, Torsten Clemens, Muhammad Tahir
Publisher: Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, September 21–23, 2021
Paper Number: SPE-206242-MS
... Abstract Even though the influence of wettability alteration on imbibition is well-documented, its synergy with Interfacial-Tension (IFT) for Alkali/Nanoparticles/Polymer flooding requires additional investigation. Particularly, when the oil Total Acid Number (TAN) may determine the wetting...
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A Temperature Operating Window Concept for Application of Nonionic Surfactants for EOR in Unconventional Shale Reservoirs
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Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, September 21–23, 2021
Paper Number: SPE-206346-MS
... technology conference oil recovery shale gas surfactant molecule wettability alteration surfactant performance np-12 cloud point surfactant nonionic surfactant Introduction Since the onset of the US shale revolution in the early 2010s, more than 150,000 hydraulically-fractured-horizontal...
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A Novel Coreflood Test to Evaluate EOR Potential of Wettability-Altering Surfactants in Oil-Wet Heterogeneous Carbonate Reservoirs
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Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, September 21–23, 2021
Paper Number: SPE-206151-MS
... The oil production from tight oil-wet matrix can be initiated by wettability alteration. An engineered water (by adding ions, surfactants or nanoparticles) can change the wettability of oil- wet matrix to a more water-wet condition and push oil out through spontaneous imbibition. Cationic...
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Enhancing Oil Recovery Using Aqueous Dispersions of Silicon Dioxide Nanoparticles: The Search for Nanoscale Wettability Alteration Mechanism
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Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, October 26–29, 2020
Paper Number: SPE-204259-STU
.... 2004 ), interfacial tension (IFT) reduction ( Lee et al. 2018 , Shahrabadi et al. 2012 ), foam stabilization ( San et al. 2016 ), wettability alteration ( Hendraningrat, Li, and Torsæter 2013 , Li et al. 2015 , Behzadi and Mohammadi 2016 , Lu et al. 2017 ), adsorption ( Bera and Belhaj 2016...
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An Electro-Kinetic Study of Amino Acid and Potential Determining Ions for Enhanced Waterflooding in Carbonate Reservoirs
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Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, October 26–29, 2020
Paper Number: SPE-201482-MS
... characterization waterflooding concentration carboxylic acid equilibrium constant zeta potential glycine speciation experimental data reaction complexation reaction lara orozco contact angle scm adsorbed carboxylic acid experiment lsw wettability alteration oil recovery Introduction...
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Novel Approach to Study the Impact of Asphaltene Properties on Low Salinity Flooding
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Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, October 26–29, 2020
Paper Number: SPE-201747-MS
... enhanced recovery adsorption mechanism waterflooding brine functional group crude oil petroleum science morrow upstream oil & gas energy & fuel composition carboxylate rock surface silica wettability alteration wettability oil recovery Introduction More than 60...
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Laboratory-Scale CO 2 Huff ‘n Puff EOR using Single Phase Solutions of CO 2 and CO 2 Soluble, Nonionic, Wettability Altering Additives
Available to PurchaseFoad Haeri, Lauren Burrows, Peter Lemaire, Adel Alenzi, Parth Shah, Deepak Tapriyal, Robert Enick, Dustin Crandall, Angela Goodman
Publisher: Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, October 26–29, 2020
Paper Number: SPE-201492-MS
... The main objective for using CO 2 -surfactant solutions during EOR in ULR is wettability alteration toward less oil-wet (more water-wet and more CO 2 -wet) to promote spontaneous CO 2 imbibition(step 2) and countercurrent oil production during the soak portion of the huff ‘n puff process (step 3...
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Effect of Silica Nanoparticles on the Oil Recovery During Alternating Injection with Low Salinity Water and Surfactant into Carbonate Reservoirs
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Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, October 26–29, 2020
Paper Number: SPE-201586-MS
... of NPs dispersed in LSW and surfactant. The difference in the results is attributed to the wettability alteration by the NPs beyond the limit of the LSW and the reduction in the IFT with/without surfactant. The interpretation of the results of this study improves the understanding of the key mechanisms...
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Effect of Wettability on Vaporization of Hydrocarbon Solvents in Nano Capillaries
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Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, October 26–29, 2020
Paper Number: SPE-201258-MS
... pvt measurement phase-change temperature sandstone wettability alteration vaporization temperature hydrocarbon solvent wettability nucleation temperature thomson equation babadagli limestone heptane media Introduction Phase changes of the injected fluid, reservoir oil/gas...
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