Mechanisms behind low salinity water injection in carbonate reservoirs

被引：93

作者：

Al Shalabi, Emad Waleed ^{[1
]}

Sepehrnoori, Kamy ^{[1
]}

Delshad, Mojdeh ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX 78712 USA

来源：

FUEL | 2014年 / 121卷

关键词：

Low salinity water injection; Wettability alteration in carbonates; History matching; LSWI in carbonates; IOR using LSWI; OIL-RECOVERY;

D O I：

10.1016/j.fuel.2013.12.045

中图分类号：

TE [石油、天然气工业]; TK [能源与动力工程];

学科分类号：

0807 ; 0820 ;

摘要：

The low salinity water injection method (LSWI) has become one of the important research topics in the oil industry because of its enormous possible advantages. The objective of this paper is to investigate the mechanism behind the LSWI effect on oil recovery through data matching. The UTCHEM simulator was used to match the cycles of the injected seawater and different dilutions of the latter for two recently published coreflooding experiments. The result from the history matching revealed that the wettability alteration mechanism is believed to be the main contributor to LSWI. Based on this finding, an analytical model for oil recovery predictions can be developed. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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页码：11 / 19

页数：9

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