A methodology to determine water contamination levels prior sampling to guarantee the capture of representative water samples, as its highly crucial for understanding saturation profile, reservoir reserves & field development planning. The presence of low salinity mud while trying to sample low salinity water adds further challenges in acquiring a clean sample. Especially, that the resistivity measurement sometimes won't have a resistivity contrast. Nevertheless, the conventional optical density measurement won't be able to differentiate the two water types. Applying power law model and utilization of resistivity/conductivity and density measurements to quantify contamination levels as the fluid property in miscible filtrate & formation water will match such transition profile. Since both water base mud filtrate (WBMf) & formation water exhibit the same optical spectroscopy response, it will be quite challenging to differentiate between them. Hence, the above method is used to quantify accurate contamination. The pH measurement was also used to monitor rate of change & stabilization across pump out station whenever there's no contrast in salinities between WBMf & formation water. The contamination calculations process can be divided into four steps: Firstly, exponent selection for the power law which depends on the inlet selection, either radial probe or single probe. Secondly, determination of filtrate properties (initial end point). Third, flow regime identification diagnostics after power law fitting. Fourth, end point extrapolation. The resistivity/conductivity, density and pH measurements were utilized during down hole fluid analysis of water stations to evaluate the contamination levels using the power law model in a shallow carbonate environment. The model was tried for multiple inlets radial probe & single probe using different power law exponents. The results were consistent and determined the right timings to sample clean water bottles with minimum contamination levels to be analyzed at the lab. Hence, providing accurate geochemical analysis for the reservoir's field development planning and optimizing station time and avoiding unnecessary pump out in real time which saves time and cost.
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