Wettability determination of rock samples
AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsQuan Chen, Sultan Muhammad Al Enezi, Ali Abdallah Al-Yousef
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AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsQuan Chen, Sultan Muhammad Al Enezi, Ali Abdallah Al-Yousef
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A primary drainage process, a core aging process, a water flooding process, an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) flooding process, and a core cleaning process is conducted on a rock sample. For each of the primary drainage process, core aging process, water flooding process, EOR flooding process, and core cleaning process, an equilibrium sample magnetization distribution and a spatially resolved spin-spin relaxation time spectrum are measured across multiple locations along a longitudinal length of the rock sample. One or more hydrocarbon saturation distributions of the rock sample are determined based on the equilibrium sample magnetization distributions. One or more wettability distributions of the rock sample are determined based on the spatially resolved spin-spin relaxation time spectrums and the one or more hydrocarbon saturation distributions. One or more wettability modification factor distributions of the rock sample are determined based on the spatially resolved spin-spin relaxation time spectrums and the hydrocarbon saturation distribution(s).
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