Formation damage is the impairment of permeability of rocks inside a petroleum reservoir. This occurs during drilling, production, stimulation and enhanced oil recovery operations, by various mechanisms such as chemical, mechanical, biological and thermal. Near wellbore formation damages have a great impact on productivity of the damaged formation. Acidizing is a stimulation method to remove the effect of near wellbore damage through reacting with damaging materials or the formation rocks (carbonate or sandstone rocks) to restore or improve permeability around the wellbore. Several experiments are conducted to study the effect of temperature and acid concentration combined on the efficiency of matrix acidizing. Three different concentrations scenarios of hydrochloric acid (3%, 15%, and 28%) and 4 different temperatures scenarios (25 °C, 35 °C, 70 °C, and 100 °C) were tested to investigate pore-enlargement success effect on permeability. The purpose of this experiment is to introduce the concept of optimized temperature augmented with optimized acid concentration in carbonate matrix acidulation. Morphology of pore geometry and area measurement software is used. New Advancement in imaging that captured pore area enlargement as big-data necessarily for artificial intelligence modeling. Captured pores before treatment and captured pores after thermal-HCL acid treatment have demonstrated that image processing of the actual acidized rock data can select the optimized recipe concentration of acid that will increase permeability, hence recovery. The results show that matrix acidizing is an effective method to improve permeability and enhance production, as it demonstrates that using less acid concentration with the optimized temperature can result in a favorable and satisfying outcomes.
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