Data Analysis Of Low Salinity Waterflooding To Enhance The Oil Recovery In Sandstone Reservoirs
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Data Analysis Of Low Salinity Waterflooding To Enhance The Oil Recovery In Sandstone Reservoirs
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Author : Nadia Ariani
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Data Analysis Of Low Salinity Waterflooding To Enhance The Oil Recovery In Sandstone Reservoirs written by Nadia Ariani and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
"The lack of a single reasonable general mechanism to describe how low-salinity waterflooding can improve oil recovery in both laboratory and field pilot projects has increased the interests of many researchers and stakeholders. There has not been observed the relationship of formation brine salinity and injected brine salinity to see how much salinity is reduced to produce the maximum enhanced oil recovery by LSWF. There is no guidance in what EOR stage the LSWF is best implemented. This work collects data from various published literature to develop a comprehensive data set regarding low-salinity waterflooding in sandstone reservoirs. The LSWF mechanisms are discussed to gain better understanding of the LSWF effect on oil recovery in sandstone reservoirs. The data set consists of parameters from coreflooding experiments that involved core samples, crude oil, and brines from different places. Histograms and box plots are used to visualize various kinds of data, and cross plots and charts are used to analyze the relationship between the important parameters and oil recovery. This study revealed the complexity of LSWF mechanisms and the corresponding parameters in the COBR system that associate with this process. The effects of rock porosity and permeability, total clay content, core aging temperature, COBR wettability, initial water saturation, oil base/acid ratio, asphaltenes content, formation and injected brine salinity and composition on the enhanced oil recovery are discussed in both secondary and tertiary LSWF modes. The applicability of parameters affecting the LSWF process are summarized. It is also observed the relationship between formation brine salinity and how much injected brine salinity was reduced or diluted to produce the maximum incremental secondary and additional tertiary recovery. Finally, in comparison to the conventional waterflooding, the final recovery from all of the LSWF stages are higher than the one of the conventional waterflooding, and the secondary+tertiary EOR stage produces the highest final recovery"--Abstract, page iii.
Novel Insights Into Low Salinity Water Flooding Enhanced Oil Recovery In Sandstone Reservoirs
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Author : Hasan N. Al-Saedi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Novel Insights Into Low Salinity Water Flooding Enhanced Oil Recovery In Sandstone Reservoirs written by Hasan N. Al-Saedi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
"Ever growing global energy demand and the natural decline in oil production from mature oil fields have been the main incentives to search for methods to increase recovery efficiency for several decades. Water flooding is extensively applied worldwide to improve oil recovery. The recent drop in oil prices has turned the oil industry to the cheapest improved oil recovery (IOR) techniques, such as low salinity (LS) waterflooding. Also, the reduction in reservoir energy and the friendly environmental aspects of low salinity water flooding (LSWF) provide additional incentives for its use. That LS water requires decreasing only the active divalent cations such as Ca2+, Mg2+ and water salinity makes LS water flooding a relatively simple and low expense IOR technique. The water chemistry significantly impacts the oil recovery factor. Wettability is one of the major parameters that control the efficiency of water flooding. The primary mechanism for increased oil recovery during LSWF in both sandstone and carbonate reservoirs is wettability alteration of the rock surface from oil-wet to water-wet. LS water imbibed into the low water-wet zones, the water wetness of the rock increased after injecting LS water, and in turn, microscopic sweep efficiency enhanced too. The mechanism behind LS water flooding has been extensively investigated in the literature but it still a topic of debate. The objective of this research is to solve the controversy and show the following: (1) Water chemistry weather partially or strongly determines the dominant wettability alteration mode. (2) The role of divalent cations in the formation water and in the injected water. (3) Clay's role for incremental recovery. This research work seeks to quantify the effects of mineral composition and water chemistry on water-rock interactions and wettability alteration"--Abstract, page
A Mechanism Of Improved Oil Recovery By Low Salinity Waterflooding In Sandstone Rock
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Author : Ramez Masoud Azmy Nasralla
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
A Mechanism Of Improved Oil Recovery By Low Salinity Waterflooding In Sandstone Rock written by Ramez Masoud Azmy Nasralla and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Injection of low-salinity water showed high potentials in improving oil recovery when compared to high-salinity water. However, the optimum water salinity and conditions are uncertain, due to the lack of understanding the mechanisms of fluid-rock interactions. The main objective of this study is to examine the potential and efficiency of low-salinity water in secondary and tertiary oil recovery for sandstone reservoirs. Similarly, this study aims to help in understanding the dominant mechanisms that aid in improving oil recovery by low-salinity waterflooding. Furthermore, the impact of cation type in injected brines on oil recovery was investigated. Coreflood experiments were conducted to determine the effect of water salinity and chemistry on oil recovery in the secondary and tertiary modes. The contact angle technique was used to study the impact of water salinity and composition on rock wettability. Moreover, the zeta potential at oil/brine and brine/rock interfaces was measured to explain the mechanism causing rock wettability alteration and improving oil recovery. Deionized water and different brines (from 500 to 174,000 mg/l), as well as single cation solutions were tested. Two types of crude oil with different properties and composition were used. Berea sandstone cores were utilized in the coreflood experiments. Coreflood tests indicated that injection of deionized water in the secondary mode resulted in significant oil recovery, up to 22% improvement, compared to seawater flooding. However, no more oil was recovered in the tertiary mode. In addition, injection of NaCl solution increased the oil recovery compared to injection of CaCl2 or MgCl2 at the same concentration. Contact angle results demonstrated that low-salinity water has an impact on the rock wettability; the more reduction in water salinity, the more a water-wet rock surface is produced. In addition, NaCl solutions made the rock more water-wet compared to CaCl2 or MgCl2 at the same concentration. Low-salinity water and NaCl solutions showed a highly negative charge at rock/brine and oil/brine interfaces by zeta potential measurements, which results in greater repulsive forces between the oil and rock surface. This leads to double-layer expansion and water-wet systems. These results demonstrate that the double-layer expansion is a primary mechanism of improving oil recovery when water chemical composition is manipulated. The electronic version of this dissertation is accessible from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149468
Review And Data Analysis Of Low Salinity Water Effect Through Induced Fine Migration
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Author : Dawei Xu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Review And Data Analysis Of Low Salinity Water Effect Through Induced Fine Migration written by Dawei Xu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
"Low salinity water flooding (LSWF) is well proved to be an effective EOR technology both in laboratory and field tests, however, the conditions for LSWF to work and EOR mechanism is still debatable. Up till now, many mechanisms have been proposed to explain the incremental oil recovery in sandstone by LSWF, for instance, fine migration, ionic exchange, wettability alteration and pH increase. In this study, we only focus on low salinity water flooding effect through induced fine migration mechanism. The objective of this study is to conduct a comprehensive analysis using statistical analysis methods and explaining the mechanism of fine migration and its impact during low salinity water flooding in sandstone reservoirs. First, we extracted data from a large number of LSWF flooding tests using sandstone core samples that have been published to date (by January 2019), and analyzed the permeability and injected pressure difference change during the flooding process results collectively. In most of the sandstone flooding experiments, the permeability will decrease because of the migration of fine particles except some cores with extremely high initial permeability. Secondly, according to the particles detachment model six rock/fluid system properties are pointed out to be the reason of particles detachment in porous media, including clay minerals concentration, injection brine velocity, brine salinity, brine pH, divalent ion concentration and oil viscosity. Experimental results are collected, organized and analyzed, from different papers, different authors and comprehensive analysis were made to reveal the impact of high relative rock/fluid system properties on permeability change and oil recovery"--Abstract, page iii.
Modeling The Effect Of Injecting Low Salinity Water On Oil Recovery From Carbonate Reservoirs
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Author : Emad W. Al Shalabi
language : en
Publisher: Emad W. Al Shalabi
Release Date : 2014
Modeling The Effect Of Injecting Low Salinity Water On Oil Recovery From Carbonate Reservoirs written by Emad W. Al Shalabi and has been published by Emad W. Al Shalabi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
The low salinity water injection technique (LSWI) has become one of the important research topics in the oil industry because of its possible advantages for improving oil recovery. Several mechanisms describing the LSWI process have been suggested in the literature; however, there is no consensus on a single main mechanism for the low salinity effect on oil recovery. As a result of the latter, there are few models for LSWI and especially for carbonates due to their heterogeneity and complexity. In this research, we proposed a systematic approach for modeling the LSWI effect on oil recovery from carbonates by proposing six different methods for history matching and three different LSWI models for the UTCHEM simulator, empirical, fundamental, and mechanistic LSWI models. The empirical LSWI model uses contact angle measurements and injected water salinity. The fundamental LSWI model captures the effect of LSWI through the trapping number. In the mechanistic LSWI model, we include the effect of different geochemical reactions through Gibbs free energy. Moreover, field-scale predictions of LSWI were performed and followed by a sensitivity analysis for the most influential design parameters using design of experiment (DoE). The LSWI technique was also optimized using the response surface methodology (RSM) where a response surface was built. Also, we moved a step further by investigating the combined effect of injecting low salinity water and carbon dioxide on oil recovery from carbonates through modeling of the process and numerical simulations using the UTCOMP simulator. The analysis showed that CO2 is the main controller of the residual oil saturation whereas the low salinity water boosts the oil production rate by increasing the oil relative permeability through wettability alteration towards a more water-wet state. In addition, geochemical modeling of LSWI only and the combined effect of LSWI and CO2 were performed using both UTCHEM and PHREEQC upon which the geochemical model in UTCHEM was modified and validated against PHREEQC. Based on the geochemical interpretation of the LSWI technique, we believe that wettability alteration is the main contributor to the LSWI effect on oil recovery from carbonates by anhydrite dissolution and surface charge change through pH exceeding the point of zero charge.
Recovery Of Crude Oil From Outcrop And Reservoir Sandstone By Low Salinity Waterflooding
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Author : Hui Pu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Recovery Of Crude Oil From Outcrop And Reservoir Sandstone By Low Salinity Waterflooding written by Hui Pu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Enhanced oil recovery categories.
The importance of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) technologies cannot be overemphasized, especially in the context of the surge in energy demand driven by rapid economic growth in developing countries as people strive to improve their living standards. Getting higher oil recovery from existing fields will be a key part of meeting the world's growing demand for energy. In the past decade, injection of brines of low salinity content and selected ionic composition in sandstone reservoirs has been developed into an emerging EOR technology. The advantage of low salinity waterflooding is that it is operationally comparable to conventional waterflooding and does not require expensive chemicals or carbon dioxide and nitrogen. The complexity of the crude oil/brine/rock interactions is well recognized and the mechanisms behind the low salinity EOR process have been debated in the literature for the last decade. The objective of this work is to explore by experimental study the effect of low salinity waterflooding on different outcrop and reservoir cores. Investigation of increased oil recovery by injection of low salinity water such as coalbed methane production water has been extended to reservoir cores from the Tensleep, Minnelusa and Phosphoria formations in Wyoming and outcrop cores (Berea and Bentheim). The Tensleep and Minnelusa formations are eolian sandstones of comparable depositional environment that contain interstitial anhydrite, dolomite and occasional calcite cements. The Phosphoria dolomite has pin-point to coarse vuggy pores lined by sparry dolomite crystals and also features patches of anhydrite. All the cores taken from pay zones showed increased oil recovery ranging from 5 to 8% original oil in place through injection of low salinity water. Increase in sulfate ion content of the effluent brine confirmed the dissolution of anhydrite, for all three reservoir rock types. Proposed mechanisms of recovery by low salinity flooding of sandstones which are tied to the presence of clay cannot apply because none of these rocks have significant clay content. Further evidence of the role of anhydrite dissolution was provided by the recovery behavior of Tensleep cores taken from the water-saturated aquifer zone of an oil reservoir. Anhydrite cement was sparse and only visible in occluded regions of pore space but not in regions that were clearly permeable. For these cores, there was no additional oil recovery when the injected brine was switched to low salinity water. The release of dolomite crystals and other fine embedded minerals which is likely associated with dissolution of anhydrite, may be a factor in the observed response to low salinity waterflooding. The movement of cement components is a possible contributing factor in the wide variety of observed relationships between pressure drop and oil recovery. For example, significant variation of relative permeability to brine at constant saturation is often observed.
Pore Scale Analysis Of Residual Oil In Sandstones And Its Dependence On Waterflood Salinity Analysed By Tomography And Microscopy
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Author : Mehdi Shabaninejad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Pore Scale Analysis Of Residual Oil In Sandstones And Its Dependence On Waterflood Salinity Analysed By Tomography And Microscopy written by Mehdi Shabaninejad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
Understanding of the pore scale phenomena in porous media is a crucial step towards designing a more efficient enhanced oil recovery techniques in large scale oil reservoirs. Three dimensional (3D) x-ray micro CT imaging and recent advanced in 3D image analysis are primary tools that provide unprecedented level of detailed pore scale information of complex rock structures. Combining this technology with laboratory EOR experiments provides valuable insights into the mechanisms behind the oil recovery process. Low salinity water flooding is a relatively convenient and efficient tertiary recovery method which is applicable to the most of the reservoir types. However, its performance prediction is uncertain because this technique is not fully understood. Fundamental understanding of underlying mechanisms of low salinity water flooding, at the pore-scale, by direct visualization and image analysis is the aim of this thesis. In this thesis a technique to quantify fluids and rocks using series of images is developed and applied to 3D images of mini-plugs that underwent Spontaneous imbibition of high and low salinity brine or flooded by high or low salinity brine. Further, oil/rock and oil//brine interfacial areas, oil/brine interfacial mean curvature and oil saturation configuration in each pore was determined for each mini-plug. The image analysis and data interpretation demonstrate that small incremental oil recovery by low salinity brine corresponded to a slight shift towards water-wet in clay-rich outcrop sandstones. Further, the influence of oil composition in the low salinity brine flooding of reservoir sandstones was investigated. Two crude oil which are mainly distinctive in their total acid number (TAN) were used in spontaneous imbibition experiments. All mini-plugs shows strongly oil wet state after spontaneous imbibition of high and low salinity brine. The low salinity effect was observed in mini plug with high TAN oil while the mini-plugs with low TAN oil exhibited much less tertiary recovery. The analysis of mini-plug with high TAN oil shows that the salinity-induced wettability shift was sufficient to displace oil from locations that were already more water-wet in the state after spontaneous imbibition of high salinity brine, but was insufficient to cause oil movement from more oil-wet locations. Pore scale study of core flooded mini-plug shows that the low salinity brine redistributed oil blobs by displacing them from smaller to the larger pores and disconnecting oil. Microscopy studies of mini-plugs after spontaneous imbibition or core flooding provided further insight to the low salinity oil recovery mechanism at local minerals or wettability of pore walls.
Low Salinity Waterflooding For Enhanced Oil Recovery
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Author : Hamish J. A. Woodrow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Low Salinity Waterflooding For Enhanced Oil Recovery written by Hamish J. A. Woodrow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
A Sensitivity Study On Modified Salinity Waterflooding And Its Hybrid Processes
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Author : Beibit Bissakayev
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
A Sensitivity Study On Modified Salinity Waterflooding And Its Hybrid Processes written by Beibit Bissakayev and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Waterflood is one of the most widely used techniques in enhanced oil recovery. In 1990s researchers came to conclusion that the chemistry of the injected water can be important in improving oil recovery. The low salinity water injection (LoSal® ) has become one of the promising topics in the oil industry. It is believed that the main mechanism for incremental oil recovery in low salinity flooding is wettability alteration. Several papers discussed that the wettability alteration from oil-wet to mixed- or water-wet takes place due to clay swelling and expanding of double layer in sandstones and calcite dissolution along with rock surface reactions in carbonates. However, there is no consensus on a single main mechanism for the low salinity effect on oil recovery. The main objective of this research is to conduct sensitivity analysis on main parameters in low salinity waterflooding and its hybrid processes affecting oil recovery in carbonates. We compare results by using coupled reservoir simulator UTCOMP-IPhreeqc. UTCOMP is the compositional reservoir simulator developed at the Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering in The University of Texas at Austin. IPhreeqc is the module-based version of the PHREEQC geochemical package, a state-of-the-art geochemical package developed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). We investigate the effect of low salinity water and carbon dioxide on oil recovery from carbonates by modeling the processes through the UTCOMP-IPhreeqc simulator. We perform sensitivity analysis on continuous gas injection (CGI), water-alternating-gas (WAG) flooding, and polymer-water-alternate-water (PWAG) flooding. We study the significance of reservoir parameters, such as reservoir heterogeneity (Dykstra-Parsons coefficient, Vdp, and crossflow, kv/kh), the salinity of injected water, the composition of gas, and polymer concentration in polymer-water solution on cumulative oil recovery. Moreover, we study the importance of inclusion of the hydrocarbon CO2 impact on the aqueous-rock geochemistry by comparing two scenarios where in one scenario the hydrocarbon CO2 effect is included in UTCOMP-IPhreeqc whereas in the other one the effect is neglected. Finally, we perform sensitivity analysis on PWAG flooding for most influential design parameters using Design of Expert software. The reservoir parameters, such as average reservoir permeability, reservoir heterogeneity, and crossflow and injected polymer-water solution parameters, such as polymer concentration and salinity of injected water are optimization parameters in this study.
Evaluation Of Low Saline Smart Water Enhanced Oil Recovery In Light Oil Reservoirs
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Author : Yogesh Kumar Suman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Evaluation Of Low Saline Smart Water Enhanced Oil Recovery In Light Oil Reservoirs written by Yogesh Kumar Suman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.