Doctoral Dissertations

Abstract

"Investigation wetting preference of tight carbonate reservoir rocks and several other unconventional reservoir rocks, and their relation to oil production, is becoming noticeably important for field development in Kuwait, as in many future unconventional tight carbonate reservoirs in the Middle East. The overall objective of this investigating and modeling study is to discover many fundamental relationships from totality wettability preference as a tool for reservoir recovery predictions and management. The investigation includes advancing position of water wet preference into smaller capillaries of the matrix voids and incrementally more oil-wet into larger capillaries of natural fractures (NF). Also, investigating water/ oil static production position phenomenon that becomes more likely attractive than oil transportation phenomenon along all possible pore geometries such as pore bodies, pore throats, nanopores, and NF. This study will inherit the oil transportation phenomenon that is dependent on: the interfacial tension between the oil-water contacts and between void/ grain boundaries, the wettability of the reservoir materials by water and oil, the relative densities of the liquid-liquid, and the liquid-calcite minerals. the scale of the sample size investigated, and the shape and dimensions of the pores. General summary of results will appreciate the investigation of pores and NF contact angle measurements inside each pore classified and quantified. Models are developed and comparison studies can be practically useful for future expensive oil production and water treatment developmental programs using a novel approach of 2D imaging characterization and Modelling. Efficient management of these complex reservoirs expects the application of unconventional approaches" -- Abstract, p. iv

Advisor(s)

Flori, Ralph E.

Committee Member(s)

Al-Bazzaz, Waleed
Dunn-Norman, Shari
Rogers, J. David
Cawlfield, Jeffrey D.
Al-Saedi, Hasan

Department(s)

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering

Degree Name

Ph. D. in Petroleum Engineering

Publisher

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Publication Date

Summer 2024

Pagination

xvi, 181 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes_bibliographical_references_(pages 38, 63, 84, 112, 135, 167 & 176-178)

Rights

©2024 Saleh Alsayegh , All Rights Reserved

Document Type

Dissertation - Open Access

File Type

text

Language

English

Thesis Number

T 12369

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