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Modeling of formation damage during smart water flooding in sandstone reservoirs
Impairment of permeability has been observed as an effective factor in production decline during secondary and tertiary recovery processes such as water flooding. Among different permeability damage mechanisms, fines migration and deposition is known as the main mechanism which occurs due to pore th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10579275/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37845309 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44160-0 |
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author | Bagrezaie, Mohammad Amin Dabir, Bahram Rashidi, Fariborz Moazzeni, Ali Reza |
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description | Impairment of permeability has been observed as an effective factor in production decline during secondary and tertiary recovery processes such as water flooding. Among different permeability damage mechanisms, fines migration and deposition is known as the main mechanism which occurs due to pore throat clogging and blocking. Because injected water and formation water are usually incompatible, permeability damage evaluation and scale formation prediction must be done before the water flooding process in the oil field is implemented. For this purpose, compatibility tests and core flood experiments are common, but experimental approaches with time and facility limitations are expensive. Thus, by decreasing the time required for conducting experiments, modeling approaches can replace the routine laboratory experiments. Based on thermodynamic balance and the solubility of ions in water, scale development due to seawater injection in an Iranian oil field was predicted in this work using the OLI ScaleChem software. After that, it was suggested that special water be introduced to help reduce the amount of scales that had accumulated in the rock pore space. The extent of permeability damage in various seawater injection scenarios was then assessed via dynamic core flood experiments. Finally, scales-seawater injection into the core was simulated using digital core analysis (DCA) results and the pore scale modeling approach. The core flood experiment data are consistent with the scale formation prediction made by the OLI ScaleChem software, which indicates that smart water can be determined by optimizing the salinity and ion content of injected water. Also, results of permeability damage prediction by our modeling approach have good agreement with the core flood experiment data. Therefore, our modeling approach can replace the conventional core flood experiments as a low-cost method with high computational efficiency and high enough accuracy to evaluate formation damage in the water flooding process. |
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spelling | pubmed-105792752023-10-18 Modeling of formation damage during smart water flooding in sandstone reservoirs Bagrezaie, Mohammad Amin Dabir, Bahram Rashidi, Fariborz Moazzeni, Ali Reza Sci Rep Article Impairment of permeability has been observed as an effective factor in production decline during secondary and tertiary recovery processes such as water flooding. Among different permeability damage mechanisms, fines migration and deposition is known as the main mechanism which occurs due to pore throat clogging and blocking. Because injected water and formation water are usually incompatible, permeability damage evaluation and scale formation prediction must be done before the water flooding process in the oil field is implemented. For this purpose, compatibility tests and core flood experiments are common, but experimental approaches with time and facility limitations are expensive. Thus, by decreasing the time required for conducting experiments, modeling approaches can replace the routine laboratory experiments. Based on thermodynamic balance and the solubility of ions in water, scale development due to seawater injection in an Iranian oil field was predicted in this work using the OLI ScaleChem software. After that, it was suggested that special water be introduced to help reduce the amount of scales that had accumulated in the rock pore space. The extent of permeability damage in various seawater injection scenarios was then assessed via dynamic core flood experiments. Finally, scales-seawater injection into the core was simulated using digital core analysis (DCA) results and the pore scale modeling approach. The core flood experiment data are consistent with the scale formation prediction made by the OLI ScaleChem software, which indicates that smart water can be determined by optimizing the salinity and ion content of injected water. Also, results of permeability damage prediction by our modeling approach have good agreement with the core flood experiment data. Therefore, our modeling approach can replace the conventional core flood experiments as a low-cost method with high computational efficiency and high enough accuracy to evaluate formation damage in the water flooding process. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10579275/ /pubmed/37845309 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44160-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Bagrezaie, Mohammad Amin Dabir, Bahram Rashidi, Fariborz Moazzeni, Ali Reza Modeling of formation damage during smart water flooding in sandstone reservoirs |
title | Modeling of formation damage during smart water flooding in sandstone reservoirs |
title_full | Modeling of formation damage during smart water flooding in sandstone reservoirs |
title_fullStr | Modeling of formation damage during smart water flooding in sandstone reservoirs |
title_full_unstemmed | Modeling of formation damage during smart water flooding in sandstone reservoirs |
title_short | Modeling of formation damage during smart water flooding in sandstone reservoirs |
title_sort | modeling of formation damage during smart water flooding in sandstone reservoirs |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10579275/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37845309 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44160-0 |
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