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Reservoir Properties of Low-Permeable Carbonate Rocks: Experimental Features
Aliya Mukhametdinova, Andrey Kazak, Tagir Karamov, Natalia Bogdanovich, Maksim Serkin, Sergey Melekhin, Alexey Cheremisin
April 25, 2023
This paper presents an integrated petrophysical characterization of a representative set of complex carbonate reservoir rock samples with a porosity of less than 3% and permeability of less than 1 mD. Laboratory methods used in this study included both bulk measurements and multiscale void space characterization. Bulk techniques included gas volumetric nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), liquid saturation (LS), porosity, pressure-pulse decay (PDP), and pseudo-steady-state permeability (PSS). Imaging consisted of thin-section petrography, computed X-ray macro- and microtomography, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Mercury injection capillary pressure (MICP) porosimetry was a proxy technique between bulk measurements and imaging. The target set of rock samples included whole cores, core plugs, mini cores, rock chips, and crushed rock. The research yielded several findings for the target rock samples. NMR was the most appropriate technique for total porosity determination. MICP porosity matched both NMR and imaging results and highlighted the different effects of solvent extraction on throat size distribution. PDP core-plug gas permeability measurements were consistent but overestimated in comparison to PSS results, with the difference reaching two orders of magnitude. SEM proved to be the only feasible method for void-scale imaging with a spatial resolution up to 5 nm. The results confirmed the presence of natural voids of two major types. The first type was organic matter (OM)-hosted pores, with dimensions of less than 500 nm. The second type was sporadic voids in the mineral matrix (biogenic clasts), rarely larger than 250 nm. Comparisons between whole-core and core-plug reservoir properties showed substantial differences in both porosity (by a factor of 2) and permeability (up to 4 orders of magnitude) caused by spatial heterogeneity and scaling.
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complex rocks, CT, MICP, NMR, permeability, porosity, reservoir properties, SEM, void space structure
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Mukhametdinova A, Kazak A, Karamov T, Bogdanovich N, Serkin M, Melekhin S, Cheremisin A. Reservoir Properties of Low-Permeable Carbonate Rocks: Experimental Features. (2023). LAPSE:2023.34204
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Mukhametdinova A: Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, 121205 Moscow, Russia
Kazak A: Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, 121205 Moscow, Russia [ORCID]
Karamov T: Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, 121205 Moscow, Russia
Bogdanovich N: Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, 121205 Moscow, Russia
Serkin M: PermNIPIneft Branch, LUKOIL Engineering LLC, Soviet Army Street, 614066 Perm, Russia
Melekhin S: PermNIPIneft Branch, LUKOIL Engineering LLC, Soviet Army Street, 614066 Perm, Russia
Cheremisin A: Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, 121205 Moscow, Russia [ORCID]
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Energies
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13
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9
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E2233
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2020
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2020-05-03
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1996-1073
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