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dc.contributor.authorAl-Yaseri, A.
dc.contributor.authorAl Mukainah, H.
dc.contributor.authorLebedev, M.
dc.contributor.authorBarifcani, Ahmed
dc.contributor.authorIglauer, S.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:43:44Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:43:44Z
dc.date.created2016-07-21T19:30:15Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationAl-Yaseri, A. and Al Mukainah, H. and Lebedev, M. and Barifcani, A. and Iglauer, S. 2016. Impact of fines and rock wettability on reservoir formation damage. Geophysical Prospecting. 64 (4): pp. 860-874.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24544
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1365-2478.12379
dc.description.abstract

Pore throat plugging of porous rock by fine particles causes formation damage, and thus has attracted attention in various areas such as petroleum engineering, hydrology and geothermal energy production. Despite significant efforts, the detailed pore-scale mechanisms leading to formation damage and the associated permeability reduction are not well understood. We thus investigated plugging mechanisms and characteristics with a combination of ex situ (i.e., coreflooding measurements and scanning electron microscopy imaging) and in situ (i.e., nuclear magnetic resonance and µCT) methods, with a particular focus on the effect of wettability. The corefloods indicated that permeability drops rapidly when fines are injected; mechanistically thin pore throats are plugged first, followed by filling of adjacent pore bodies with the fine material (as evidenced by the nuclear magnetic resonance and µCT experiments, which can measure the pore size distribution evolution with fines injection). Furthermore, it is clear that wettability plays a major role: if fines and rock wettability are identical, plugging is significantly accelerated; wettability also controls the 3D distribution of the fines in the pore space. Furthermore we note that the deposited fines were tightly packed, apparently due to strong adhesion forces.

dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell
dc.titleImpact of fines and rock wettability on reservoir formation damage
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume64
dcterms.source.number4
dcterms.source.startPage860
dcterms.source.endPage874
dcterms.source.issn0016-8025
dcterms.source.titleGeophysical Prospecting
curtin.departmentSchool of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
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