Modeling Wettability Alteration in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

Review of Surfactant Enhanced Oil Recovery in Carbonate Reservoirs

This paper reviews the models of wettability alteration using surfactants and upscaling models related to oil recovery in carbonate reservoirs. Chemicals used ...

Simulation study of wettability alteration enhanced oil ... - UiS Brage

Naturally fractured reservoirs are highly dependent on capillary forces to recover hydrocarbons during water injection. Water can spontaneously imbibe and ...

Wettability Alteration Mechanisms in Enhanced Oil Recovery ... - MDPI

In contrast, chemical EOR methods show great potential in deep reservoirs due to their technical and economic feasibility [11]. Over decades of research, ...

Numerical Validation of Chemical Compositional Model ... - De Gruyter

The test problem for the numerical study of the wettability change due to surfactants in the fractured reservoirs in the computational grid with 31×11×3 number ...

Simulation of Oil Displacement from Oil-Wet Cores by Interfacial ...

wet naturally fractured reservoirs to enhance oil recovery. This method ... wettability alteration mechanism in surfactant flooding of the reservoirs.

A Review of Wettability Alteration by Spontaneous Imbibition

The main process of fluid movement between the fracture and matrix is spontaneous imbibition (SI), which can occur in co/countercurrent fluid flow states. In ...

Simulation and Assessment of Surfactant Injection in Fractured ...

Fractured reservoirs with high matrix porosity and low matrix permeability need a secondary or EOR technique to achieve the maximum production. One of the ...

Modeling Wettability Alteration using Chemical EOR Processes in ...

Here we are adapting UTCHEM to model the wettability alteration in both conventional and naturally fractured reservoirs. This will help us and ...

Simulation Study of Surfactant Imbibition Mechanisms in Naturally ...

... Modeling Wettability Alteration by Surfactants in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs. Delshad M., Najafabadi N.F., Anderson G.A., Pope G.A., Sepehrnoori K. Q1 ...

Wettability Alteration in a Tight Oil Reservoir | Energy & Fuels

In fractured reservoirs, the efficiency of water flood is governed by spontaneous imbibition of water into oil-containing matrix blocks.

HWU Jackson Andreas Pola Core-Scale Modelling of Surfactant ...

HWU Jackson Andreas Pola Core-Scale Modelling of Surfactant Imbibition Induced Wettability Alteration in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs ...

Are Natural Fractures In Sandstone Reservoir: Water Wet

Alteration of wettability and wettability heterogeneity. ... Practical Strategies for Evaluation and Modelling of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs.

Study of Waterflooding Process in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs ...

Static imbibition experiments, followed by waterflooding, were performed at reservoir conditions to investigate rock wettability. A two-phase and 2-D, fully ...

Wettability alteration agents to promote spontaneous imbibition in ...

In matrix-fracture dual-permeability media, spontaneous imbibition through which a non-wetting phase is displaced by a wetting phase is regarded as the most ...

Pore‐scale modeling of wettability alteration during primary drainage

The model qualitatively reproduces experimental observations where an early rapid wettability alteration involving these small polar species ...

A Review of Wettability Alteration by Spontaneous Imbibition Using ...

A Review of Wettability Alteration by Spontaneous Imbibition Using Low-Salinity Water in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs. ... models can be developed to ...

Numerical Study of Low Salinity Water Flooding in Naturally ...

This study aims to investigate the possibility of using low salinity water flooding in naturally fractured reservoirs. The wettability changes are taking into ...

Numerical Investigation Of Non-Homogenous Wettability Alteration ...

Beyond the fracture-matrix imbibition halo, wettability (contact angle) does not change anymore. So, this wettability transition zone needs to ...

Chemical Flooding in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

for Wettability Alteration in Oil-Wet Fractured Carbonates, SPE ... Saidi A.M. (1983) Simulation of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs,. SPE ...

Production Forecasting from Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

This model will reduce the computational burden in simulating this class of complex reservoir and enable better reservoir management decision-making through ...