Methods for determining wettability from NMR
US9405037B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 1, 2013 |
| Grant date | Aug 2, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 4, 2035 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01V3/14
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Methods are described for wettability characterization based on NMR measurements, which are sensitive to the surface wetting conditions of oil and water at the pore scale. The described methods make use of surface relaxation effects on the NMR relaxation (T2). Workflows are described to obtain wettability profiles of a porous media such as a rock either in the native state or prepared to a certain state in the laboratory. An underlying forward model is also described for the mixed wet and fractionally saturated pore spectrum. Outputs of the described inversion include continuous saturation and wettability profiles as a function of the pore sizes in the porous media, as well as an averaged value for saturation and wettability over the entire pore spectrum.
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