Laboratory Study of Residual Oil Mobilization by Induce Vibration in Porous Media

Abstract

The evolution of techniques required to mobilize reservoir fluids at critical saturation is important because of global petroleum needs because of the necessity to conserve the underground water that deteriorated because of the slowness of persistent organic pollutants’ dismantling. The acoustic waves of low-frequency are one of these methods, but the absence of understanding of the vibration effect to displace Oil prevents vibration application in the field until recently. This paper proves that oil permeability increased when the vibration induced in porous media; vibration makes resorting to the rock grains, which stimulates passage for liquid moving through the reservoir. The capillary pressure and reservoir pressure should be taken into consideration to make optimum validation for vibration stimulation.