Improving the reliability of determining physical properties of heterogeneous clay reservoir rocks using a set of techniques

Abstract

Oil-water-saturated formations of Western Siberian fields represented by polymictic sandstones are often characterized by strong granulometric heterogeneity. This is the reason for an incorrect assessment of the physicochemical properties of reservoirs, including wettability. On the example of the BS9 - BS11 formations of two fields of Surgut oil and gas region, the distribution of wettability of core samples was analyzed. An analysis of the modeling results for the hydrocarbon phase displacement by oil-saturated reservoir water was carried out using the Tulbovich method. To assess reliability of the wettability values, it was proposed to correlate the difference in the masses of water and kerosene displaced during capillary impregnation and centrifugation with differences in the mass of water and kerosene in water-and kerosene-saturated samples. The method was used to plot the distribution of porosity, permeability and relative clay content on the wettability parameter by capillary impregnation and centrifugal displacement. The results obtained were compared with similar dependences of the reservoir properties and clay content on the general wettability parameter. The type of wettability of core samples with good reservoir properties is validated in complex, low-permeability reservoirs with a high content of clay material. It is recommended to use the results of modeling the displacement by capillary impregnation and centrifugation with differences in the mass of water and kerosene.