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DOI | 10.1029/2018WR024042 |
New Semi-Analytical Insights Into Stress-Dependent Spontaneous Imbibition and Oil Recovery in Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs | |
Haghi, Amir H.1; Chalaturnyk, Richard1; Geiger, Sebastian2 | |
2018-11-01 | |
发表期刊 | WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
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ISSN | 0043-1397 |
EISSN | 1944-7973 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 54期号:11页码:9605-9622 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Canada; Scotland |
英文摘要 | Fluid injection and withdrawal in a porous medium create changes in pore pressure that alter effective stresses within the medium. This leads to pore volume changes, which can be described by the poroelastic theory. These changes in pore volume can influence fluid flow processes, such as capillary diffusion and imbibition, potentially altering multiphase flow characteristics in subsurface reservoirs with a focus on oil recovery in the naturally fractured carbonate reservoirs. In this study, a semi-analytical model is developed to analyze the impact of stress-dependent spontaneous imbibition. The model allows us to study the influence of stress-dependent effects on porosity, absolute permeability, relative permeability, and capillary pressure on the imbibition and oil recovery mechanisms of both intact rock and fracture in naturally fractured carbonate reservoirs. In order to capture the geomechanical interactions involved, pure compliance poroelastic definitions and nonlinear joint normal stiffness equations are used to assess the deformation of intact rock and fracture, respectively. The model shows that increasing effective confining stress shifts the imbibition capillary pressure curve upward, resulting in improved absorption of the wetting phase into the smaller pores and enhanced extraction of the nonwetting phase. Model calculations provide a rationale for how and why irreducible water saturation increases during compression of mixed-wet carbonates and decreases in the case of initially strong water-wet carbonates. It is also shown how higher relative permeability of the wetting phase leads to a greater diffusion of the wetting phase and improved oil recovery for the less deformed mixed-wet rock. |
英文关键词 | effective confining stress counter-current spontaneous imbibition oil recovery relative permeability capillary pressure |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000453369400056 |
WOS关键词 | RELATIVE PERMEABILITY ; BEHAVIOR |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Limnology ; Water Resources |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Marine & Freshwater Biology ; Water Resources |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/21473 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Alberta, Reservoir Geomech Res Grp, Edmonton, AB, Canada; 2.Heriat Watt Univ, Inst Petr Engn, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Haghi, Amir H.,Chalaturnyk, Richard,Geiger, Sebastian. New Semi-Analytical Insights Into Stress-Dependent Spontaneous Imbibition and Oil Recovery in Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs[J]. WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH,2018,54(11):9605-9622. |
APA | Haghi, Amir H.,Chalaturnyk, Richard,&Geiger, Sebastian.(2018).New Semi-Analytical Insights Into Stress-Dependent Spontaneous Imbibition and Oil Recovery in Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs.WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH,54(11),9605-9622. |
MLA | Haghi, Amir H.,et al."New Semi-Analytical Insights Into Stress-Dependent Spontaneous Imbibition and Oil Recovery in Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs".WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH 54.11(2018):9605-9622. |
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