Productivity, injectivity, and sweep efficiency enhancement
AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsAbdulaziz S. Al-Qasim, Ali A. Al-Yousef
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AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsAbdulaziz S. Al-Qasim, Ali A. Al-Yousef
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Methods of enhancing productivity of a subterranean wellbore may include introducing a carbonated mixture comprising water and carbonate anions to a target zone of the subterranean wellbore; introducing basaltic particles to the target zone of the subterranean wellbore; contacting the basaltic particles with the carbonated mixture; dissolving at least a part of the basaltic particles with the carbonated mixture to release divalent cations including calcium cations, magnesium cations and ferrous cations; reacting, in the target zone of the subterranean wellbore, the divalent cations with the carbonate anions in the carbonated mixture to produce carbonate minerals; providing stimulus to the basaltic particles and the carbonated mixture to promote the dissolving and the reacting; depositing at least a part of the carbonate minerals to fractures of the target zone; and monitoring the reacting of the divalent cations with the carbonated anions and depositing.
A method of enhancing productivity of a subterranean wellbore, the method comprising:
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