Novel additives to retard permeable flow

Golombok, M Michael; Crane, C. M.; Ineke, Erik; Harris, J. E.; Welling, M. S.

doi:10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2008.04.001

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“…A range of concentrations and resultant ratios were chosen. Previous work has shown that the best effects are obtained around a ratio of 3/2 (Golombok et al 2008) although this has not been confirmed for other salinities and temperatures so were subject to variation in this study.…”

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Reservoir resilience of viscoelastic surfactants

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Golombok

2016

J Petrol Explor Prod Technol

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Viscoelastic solutions are notoriously sensitive to temperature and ionic strength. In order to be applicable for use in oil reservoirs, they need to be resilient to higher temperatures as well as to saline content. We define the essential characteristics required. Refractory properties obtained under Couette testing do not necessarily provide the same performance under pressure-driven flow. Nonetheless, it is possible to formulate solutions which clearly indicate that subsurface application is practicable. We show examples where salinity enables significantly enhanced viscoelasticity above ambient temperatures.

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Reservoir resilience of viscoelastic surfactants

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2016

J Petrol Explor Prod Technol

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“…Since we are interested however in elastic properties as a means to suspend proppant we focus rather on fluids that exhibit high SIS regime growth. From a Couette rheometer screening of VES formulations for application in fracture and porous matrix flow, (Golombok et al, 2008;Vasudevan et al, 2008; van der Plas and Golombok, 2015a) we identified two fluids for application -30 mM CTAB, 10 mM NaSal (denoted 30/10) and 50 mM CTAB, 14 mM NaSal (denoted 50/14).…”

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Wellbore to fracture proppant-placement-fluid rheology

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Golombok

2016

Journal of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources

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“…(In this regard, we ignore for the time being the relative permeability since we are concerned with controlling the water flow over the spatially varying permeability structure.) We have recently experimentally demonstrated how an additive can induce profile flattening (profile 3) (Golombok et al 2008). In this note we examine the interaction between fluid shear and rock permeability, which seems to govern this effect.…”

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Shear Rate and Permeability in Water Flooding

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Golombok

2008

Transp Porous Med

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Water breakthrough during oil recovery can be inhibited by the use of novel shear-induced structure additives. These affect the shear rate experienced by fluid inside the rock matrix. We relate this to the permeability for the purpose of applying these novel non-Newtonian materials which thicken viscosity only in the shear range associated with the permeability of the reservoir while maintaining base fluid properties outside this range.

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Novel additives to retard permeable flow

Cited by 14 publications

References 7 publications

Reservoir resilience of viscoelastic surfactants

Reservoir resilience of viscoelastic surfactants

Wellbore to fracture proppant-placement-fluid rheology

Shear Rate and Permeability in Water Flooding

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