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    Simultaneous oil recovery and residual gas storage: A pore-level analysis using in-situ X-ray micro-tomography

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    Authors
    Iglauer, Stefan
    Paluszny, A.
    Blunt, M.
    Date
    2013
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Iglauer, S. and Paluszny, A. and Blunt, M. 2013. Simultaneous oil recovery and residual gas storage: A pore-level analysis using in-situ X-ray micro-tomography. Fuel. 103: pp. 905-914.
    Source Title
    Fuel
    DOI
    10.1016/j.fuel.2012.06.094
    ISSN
    0016-2361
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    Department of Petroleum Engineering
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    NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in the journal Fuel. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in the journal Fuel, Vol.103 (2013). DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2012.06.094

    NOTE: Corrigendum published at http://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2014.09.031

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44079
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    We imaged sandstone cores at residual gas saturation (Sgr) with synchrotron radiation at a nominal resolution of (9 μm)3. We studied two three-phase flooding sequences: (1) gas injection into a core containing oil and initial water followed by a waterflood (gw process); (2) gas injection into a waterflooded core followed by another waterflood (wgw process). In the gw flood we measured a significantly higher Sgr (=20.6%; Sgr in the wgw flood was 5.3%) and a significantly lower residual oil saturation (Sor; Sor in the gw flood was 21.6% and Sor in the wgw flood was 29.3%). We also studied the size distribution of individual trapped clusters in the pore space. We found an approximately power-law distribution N ∝ s−τ with an exponent τ = 2.02–2.03 for the residual oil clusters and τ = 2.04 for the gas clusters in the gw flood. τ (=2.32) estimated for the gas clusters in the wgw process was significantly different. Furthermore, we calculated the surface area A–volume V relationships for the clusters. Again an approximate power-law relationship was observed, A ∝Vp with p ≈ 0.75. Moreover, in the gw flood sequence we identified oil layers sandwiched between the gas and water phases; we did not identify such oil layers in the wgw flood.These results have several important implications for oil recovery, carbon geo-sequestration and contaminant transport: (a) significantly more oil can be produced and much more gas can be stored using a gw flood; (b) cluster size distributions for residual oil or gas clusters in three-phase flow are similar to those observed in analogue two-phase flow; (c) there is a large cluster surface area available for dissolution of the residual phase into an aqueous phase; however, this surface area is significantly smaller than predicted by percolation theory (p ≈ 1), which implies that CO2 dissolution trapping and contamination of aquifers by hazardous organic solvents is slower than expected because of reduced interfacial contact areas.

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