REDUCTIONS IN THE PRODUCTIVITY OF OIL AND LOW PERMEABILITY GAS-RESERVOIRS DUE TO AQUEOUS-PHASE TRAPPING
REDUCTIONS IN THE PRODUCTIVITY OF OIL AND LOW PERMEABILITY GAS-RESERVOIRS DUE TO AQUEOUS-PHASE TRAPPING
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DOI:
10.2118/94-09-05
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发表时间:
1994-11-01
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CIMOLAI, MP
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作者:
BENNION, DB;BIETZ, RF;CIMOLAI, MP
Many hydrocarbon bearing reservoirs exhibit the potential for significant productivity reductions due to adverse relative permeability effects associated with the retention of invaded aqueous fluids. These fluids could include water-based drilling mud filtrates, completion fluids, fracture fluids, workover fluids, kill fluids or stimulation fluids (including spent acid).This paper identifies potential mechanisms behind phase trapping and identifies particular reservoir types which tend to be susceptible to this type of formation damage, most notably low initial water saturation gas reservoirs and strongly oil-wet oil reservoirs. Laboratory techniques to investigate the severity of aqueous trapping and various remedial techniques are described, and two field case studies illustrating the potential for permeability impairment due to invasive aqueous trapping are presented. One case study describes a series of wells completed in the Paddy formation and the second in the Cadomin formation in the Deep Basin area of central Alberta (both gas producing zones). Laboratory case studies documenting the phenomenon of aqueous phase trapping in strongly oil-wet porous media are also presented.