Petroleum Science >2025, Issue6: - DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petsci.2024.09.008
Pore-scale fluid distribution and remaining oil during tertiary low-salinity waterflooding in a carbonate Open Access
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作者:Chun-Yu Tong, Yong-Fei Yang, Qi Zhang, Gloire Imani, Lei Zhang, Hai Sun, Jun-Jie Zhong, Kai Zhang, Jun Yao
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引用方式:Chun-Yu Tong, Yong-Fei Yang, Qi Zhang, Gloire Imani, Lei Zhang, Hai Sun, Jun-Jie Zhong, Kai Zhang, Jun Yao, Pore-scale fluid distribution and remaining oil during tertiary low-salinity waterflooding in a carbonate, Petroleum Science, Volume 21, Issue 6, 2024, Pages 4130-4140, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petsci.2024.09.008.
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Abstract: Low-salinity waterflooding, as a promising enhanced oil recovery method, has exhibited exciting results in various experiments conducted at different scales. For carbonate rock, pore-scale understanding of the fluid distribution and remaining oil after low-salinity waterflooding is essential, especially the geometry and topology analysis of oil clusters. We performed the tertiary low-salinity waterflooding and employed X-ray micro-CT to probe the pore-scale displacement mechanism, fluid configuration, oil recovery, and remaining oil distribution. We found that the core becomes less oil-wet after low-salinity waterflooding. Furthermore, we analyzed the oil-rock and oil-brine interfacial areas to further support the wettability alteration. By comparing images after high-salinity waterflooding and low-salinity waterflooding, it is proven that wettability alteration has a significant impact on the behavior of the two-phase flow. Our research demonstrates that low-salinity waterflooding is an effective tertiary enhanced oil recovery technology in carbonate, which changes the wettability of rock and results in less film and singlet oil.
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Keywords: Tertiary low-salinity waterflooding; Micro-CT; Wettability alteration; Digital core; Remaining oil