Petroleum Science >2010, Issue 1: 93-99 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12182-010-0011-2
The effects of temperature and acid number of crude oil on the wettability of acid volcanic reservoir rock from the Hailar Oilfield Open Access
文章信息
作者:Xie Quan,He Shunli and Pu Wanfeng
作者单位:
Key Laboratory of Petroleum Engineering, Ministry of Education, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China;Key Laboratory of Petroleum Engineering, Ministry of Education, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China;State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, China
投稿时间:2008-12-25
引用方式:Xie, Q., He, S. & Pu, W. Pet. Sci. (2010) 7: 93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12182-010-0011-2
文章摘要
Wettability of acid volcanic reservoir rock from the Hailar Oilfield, China, was studied with crude oils of different acid numbers generated from an original crude oil with an acid number of 3.05 mg KOH/g. The modified oils and their resultant acid numbers were: A (2.09 mg KOH/g), B (0.75 mg KOH/g), C (0.47 mg KOH/g), D (0.30 mg KOH/g), and E (0.18 mg KOH/g). Contact angles and improved Amott water indexes were measured to study the effects of temperature and acid number on the wettability of the acid volcanic reservoir rock. Experimental results indicated that the wettability was not sensitive to variation in temperature when using the same oil, but the acid number of the crude oil was a key factor in changing the wettability of the rock. The Amott water index, I w was an exponential function of the acid number, and the Amott water index increased as the acid number decreased (i.e. Amott water index exponentially decreased with the acid number increase). The I w value of the core saturated with oil A, with an acid number of 2.09 mg KOH/g, ranged from 0.06 to 0.11, which indicated low water wetness. If the acid number of the oil decreased to 0.18 mg KOH/g, the I w value increased to 0.95, which indicated strong water wetness. The contact angle decreased from 80o to 35o when the aid number decreased from 0.75 to 0.18 mg KOH/g, indicating a change towards more water wet conditions. The oil recovery by spontaneous imbibition of water also increased as the acid number of the oil decreased. As an example, at 80 oC, the recovery of Oil A with an acid number of 2.09 mg KOH/g was only 7.6%, while Oil E with an acid number of 0.18 mg KOH/g produced 56.4%, i.e. an increase of 48.8%.
关键词
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Acid volcanic reservoir rock, Amott wettability index, wetting angle, temperature, acid number, wettability