Reservoir formation damage: fundamentals, modeling, by Faruk Civan

By Faruk Civan

This complete unmarried resource can provide the newest findings and methods for knowing, assessing, and mitigating reservoir formation harm. it's the merely publication on this planet to attract from the main disciplines of chemistry, engineering, petrophysics, geology, and mathematical modeling to supply state of the art wisdom and worthy insights into formation harm. The author's services in petroleum, chemical, and geological engineering make this publication special as a result of its extensive, thorough insurance. It presents an knowing of the checking out, modeling, and simulation options on hand for formation harm review. you'll find new concepts designed to reduce and keep away from formation harm in petroleum reservoirs. Reservoir Formation harm is a concise and useful reference for engineers, scientists, and operators engaged in a number of elements of formation harm, together with trying out, evaluate, prognosis, prediction, and mitigation.

Show description

Read or Download Reservoir formation damage: fundamentals, modeling, assessment, and mitigation PDF

Similar mining books

Exhumation of the North Atlantic Margin: Timing, Mechanisms and Implications for Petroleum Exploration (Geological Society Special Publication, No. 196)

Distinct booklet 196. Exhumation of the North Atlantic Margin: Timing, Mechanisms and Implications for Petroleum Exploration. Northwest Europe has passed through repeated episode of exhumation (the publicity of previously buried rocks) because of such components as post-orogenic unroofing, rift-shoulder uplift, hotspot task, compressive tectonics, eustatic seal-level swap, glaciation and isostatic re-adjustment.

Common Well Control Hazards

Seriously illustrated with 900 photos of tangible good regulate websites, universal good regulate dangers: identity and Countermeasures presents a visible illustration of 177 universal good regulate risks and the way to avoid or counteract them. the correct significant other for any engineer who must enhance and practice their ability extra successfully, this “plain language” consultant covers universal good regulate gear resembling: BOP regulate procedure, BOP manifold, kill manifold, drilling fluid restoration pipes, IBOP instruments, liquid fuel separator, and fireplace, explosion & H2S prevention.

Offshore Safety Management. Implementing a SEMS Program

2010 was once a defining 12 months for the offshore oil and gasoline within the usa. On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) floating drilling rig suffered a catastrophic explosion and fireplace. 11 males died within the explosion ― 17 others have been injured. the hearth, which burned for an afternoon and a part, finally despatched the whole rig to the ground of the ocean.

Designing for Human Reliability: Human Factors Engineering in the Oil, Gas, and Process Industries

Underestimates the level to which behaviour at paintings is inspired via the layout of the operating atmosphere. Designing for Human Reliability argues that better knowledge of the contribution of layout to human blunders can considerably increase HSE functionality and increase go back on funding. Illustrated with many examples, Designing for Human Reliability explores why paintings structures are designed and applied such that "design-induced human blunders" turns into more-or-less inevitable.

Additional info for Reservoir formation damage: fundamentals, modeling, assessment, and mitigation

Sample text

273-285. , private communication, 1999. Hughes, R. , "The Application of Modern Clay Concepts to Oil Field Development," pp. 151-167, in Drilling and Production Practice 1950, American Petroleum Institute, New York, NY, 1951, 344 p. Khilar, K. , Fogler, H. , "Water Sensitivity of Sandstones," SPEJ, February 1983, pp. 55-64. Kia, S. , Fogler, H. , & Reed, M. , "Effect of Salt Composition on Clay Release in Berea Sandstones," SPE 16254, February 1987. Ladd, C. , 1960, pp. 10-26. , Civan, F, & Evans, R.

1997; reprinted by permission of the AlChE, ©1997 AlChE. All rights reserved). Mineralogy and Mineral Sensitivity of Petroleum-Bearing Formations 25 Zhou et al. (1996, 1997) suggest the use of clay-swelling charts obtained by x-ray diffraction method similar to that given in Figures 2-15 and 2-16 to determine the compatibility of clays with mixed-electrolyte solutions. These charts indicate the cation concentrations of aqueous solutions that will cause crystalline or osmotic swelling. Consequently the cation compositions that will lead to formation damage can be identified readily in the region of the osmotic swelling, as shown in Figure 2-15, because osmotic swelling is the main cause of formation damage.

Thus, the water absorption in the solid can be predicted by the one-dimensional transientstate diffusion equation: dc/dt - Dd2c/dz2,0 < z < oo, t > 0, (2-2) subject to the initial and boundary conditions given, respectively, by: c = c0,00 (2-4) c = cQ,z-*°°,t>0 (2-5) where c0 and c are the initial and instantaneous water concentrations, respectively, in the solid, Cj is the water concentration of the aqueous solution, z is the distance from the pore surface, t is the actual contact time, k is the film mass transfer coefficient, and D is the diffusivity coefficient in the solid matrix.

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.47 of 5 – based on 26 votes