Enhancing Matrix Acid Stimulation Using Ultrasonic Waves

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed H. Khaldi ◽  
Sinan Caliskan ◽  
Mohamed N. Noui-Mehidi
Keyword(s):  
Ct Scan ◽  
Ultrasonic Wave ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Ultrasonic Waves ◽  
Matrix Acidizing ◽  
Rate Of Penetration ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Samples ◽  
Carbonate Formation ◽  
Ct Scan Analysis

Abstract The present paper is concerned with improving matrix acidizing in carbonate formation. For this purpose, ultrasonic waves were added to conventional matrix acid stimulation to increase the acid reach inside the rock. This concept is based on a phonophoresis effect of the acid, applying a similar concept in pushing the stimulation acid deeper in the formation during matrix acidizing. This effect will have a great benefit in reaching larger stimulated areas and increasing the overall well productivity. Extensive laboratory experiments have shown that the rate of penetration of the acid when exposed simultaneously to ultrasonic wave irradiation reached almost 90% more than the acid only. This phenomena has been investigated through the use of CT scan analysis on the core samples. The penetration was instantaneous and rapid in reaching deeper length of the plug sample.

Laboratory experiments on compressional ultrasonic wave attenuation in partially frozen brines

Geophysics ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. N9-N18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Matsushima ◽  
Makoto Suzuki ◽  
Yoshibumi Kato ◽  
Takao Nibe ◽  
Shuichi Rokugawa
Keyword(s):  
Ultrasonic Wave ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Wave Attenuation ◽  
Ultrasonic Attenuation ◽  
Liquid System ◽  
Seismic Attenuation ◽  
Ultrasonic Waves ◽  
Frequency Range ◽  
Pore Microstructure ◽  
Solid Liquid

Often, the loss mechanisms responsible for seismic attenuation are unclear and controversial. We used partially frozen brine as a solid-liquid coexistence system to investigate attenuation phenomena. Ultrasonic wave-transmission measurements on an ice-brine coexisting system were conducted to examine the influence of unfrozen brine in the pore microstructure on ultrasonic waves. We observed the variations of a 150–1000 kHz wave transmitted through a liquid system to a solid-liquid coexistence system, changing its temperature from [Formula: see text] to –[Formula: see text]. We quantitatively estimated attenuation in a frequency range of [Formula: see text] by considering different distances between the source and receiver transducers. We also estimated the total amount of frozen brine at each temperature by using the pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique and related those results to attenuation results. The waveform analyses indicate that ultrasonic attenuation in an ice-brine coexisting system reaches its peak at [Formula: see text], at which the ratio of the liquid phase to the total volume in an ice-brine coexisting system is maximal. Finally, we obtained a highly positive correlation between the attenuation of ultrasonic waves and the total amount of unfrozen brine. Thus, laboratory experiments demonstrate that ultrasonic waves within this frequency range are affected significantly by the existence of unfrozen brine in the pore microstructure.

Experimental Self-Location Vehicle Based on Ultrasonic Waves Guided System

1993 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-235
Author(s):  
Robert Sh. Habib ◽  
Harootyun Sh. Habib ◽  
Bassam S. Majeed
Keyword(s):  
Ultrasonic Wave ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Dynamic Performance ◽  
Ultrasonic Waves ◽  
System Dynamic ◽  
Automated Guided Vehicle ◽  
Location System ◽  
Design And Implementation

Experimental self-location vehicle based on an ultrasonic wave-guided system This paper describes the design and implementation of an automated guided vehicle, based on a microcomputer-controlled ultrasonic self-location system. Dynamic performance and system repeatability are evaluated by tests carried out on the applied self-navigating algorithm. The system is suitable for robotics or FMS laboratory experiments utilising the implemented hardware and relevant software.

Fossil diatoms from the Volga Delta Holocene sediments (Damchik region) as indicators of the paleoecological conditions of sedimentation

2019 ◽  
pp. 270-273
Author(s):  
Yelena I. Shtyrkova ◽  
Yelena I. Polyakova
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Diatom Analysis ◽  
Volga Delta ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Samples ◽  
Holocene Sediments ◽  
Fossil Diatoms

The results of fossil diatoms investigation from the deltaic sediments are presented. Samples were obtained from the core DM-1 and two Holocene outcrops from the Damchik region of the Astrakhan Nature Reserve. In the core samples eight periods of sedimentation based on diatom analysis were identified: the sediments formed in shallow freshwater basins and deltaic channels. The samples from the outcrops were investigated in much greater detail.

Ups and Downs

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Livermore
Keyword(s):  
Mantle Convection ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Inner Core ◽  
Computer Modelling ◽  
Great Depth ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
The 1960S

Despite the dumbing-down of education in recent years, it would be unusual to find a ten-year-old who could not name the major continents on a map of the world. Yet how many adults have the faintest idea of the structures that exist within the Earth? Understandably, knowledge is limited by the fact that the Earth’s interior is less accessible than the surface of Pluto, mapped in 2016 by the NASA New Horizons spacecraft. Indeed, Pluto, 7.5 billion kilometres from Earth, was discovered six years earlier than the similar-sized inner core of our planet. Fortunately, modern seismic techniques enable us to image the mantle right down to the core, while laboratory experiments simulating the pressures and temperatures at great depth, combined with computer modelling of mantle convection, help identify its mineral and chemical composition. The results are providing the most rapid advances in our understanding of how this planet works since the great revolution of the 1960s.

scholarly journals Linear and Nonlinear Normal Interface Stiffness in Dry Rough Surface Contact Measured Using Longitudinal Ultrasonic Waves

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 5720
Author(s):  
Saeid Taghizadeh ◽  
Robert Sean Dwyer-Joyce
Keyword(s):  
Rough Surface ◽  
Contact Pressure ◽  
Ultrasonic Wave ◽  
Bulk Material ◽  
Nonlinear Differential Equations ◽  
Small Deformation ◽  
Ultrasonic Waves ◽  
Solid Contact ◽  
Interfacial Stiffness ◽  
Linear And Nonlinear

When two rough surfaces are loaded together contact occurs at asperity peaks. An interface of solid contact regions and air gaps is formed that is less stiff than the bulk material. The stiffness of a structure thus depends on the interface conditions; this is particularly critical when high stiffness is required, for example in precision systems such as machine tool spindles. The rough surface interface can be modelled as a distributed spring. For small deformation, the spring can be assumed to be linear; whilst for large deformations the spring gets stiffer as the amount of solid contact increases. One method to measure the spring stiffness, both the linear and nonlinear aspect, is by the reflection of ultrasound. An ultrasonic wave causes a perturbation of the contact and the reflection depends on the stiffness of the interface. In most conventional applications, the ultrasonic wave is low power, deformation is small and entirely elastic, and the linear stiffness is measured. However, if a high-powered ultrasonic wave is used, this changes the geometry of the contact and induces nonlinear response. In previous studies through transmission methods were used to measure the nonlinear interfacial stiffness. This approach is inconvenient for the study of machine elements where only one side of the interface is accessible. In this study a reflection method is undertaken, and the results are compared to existing experimental work with through transmission. The variation of both linear and nonlinear interfacial stiffnesses was measured as the nominal contact pressure was increased. In both cases interfacial stiffness was expressed as nonlinear differential equations and solved to deduce the contact pressure-relative surface approach relationships. The relationships derived from linear and nonlinear measurements were similar, indicating the validity of the presented methods.

scholarly journals Construction of pore structure and lithology of digital rock physics based on laboratory experiments

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 2113-2125
Author(s):  
Chenzhi Huang ◽  
Xingde Zhang ◽  
Shuang Liu ◽  
Nianyin Li ◽  
Jia Kang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pore Structure ◽  
Pore Size Distribution ◽  
Pore Size ◽  
Size Distribution ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Rock Physics ◽  
Reconstruction Method ◽  
Digital Rock Physics ◽  
Digital Rock ◽  
The Core

AbstractThe development and stimulation of oil and gas fields are inseparable from the experimental analysis of reservoir rocks. Large number of experiments, poor reservoir properties and thin reservoir thickness will lead to insufficient number of cores, which restricts the experimental evaluation effect of cores. Digital rock physics (DRP) can solve these problems well. This paper presents a rapid, simple, and practical method to establish the pore structure and lithology of DRP based on laboratory experiments. First, a core is scanned by computed tomography (CT) scanning technology, and filtering back-projection reconstruction method is used to test the core visualization. Subsequently, three-dimensional median filtering technology is used to eliminate noise signals after scanning, and the maximum interclass variance method is used to segment the rock skeleton and pore. Based on X-ray diffraction technology, the distribution of minerals in the rock core is studied by combining the processed CT scan data. The core pore size distribution is analyzed by the mercury intrusion method, and the core pore size distribution with spatial correlation is constructed by the kriging interpolation method. Based on the analysis of the core particle-size distribution by the screening method, the shape of the rock particle is assumed to be a more practical irregular polyhedron; considering this shape and the mineral distribution, the DRP pore structure and lithology are finally established. The DRP porosity calculated by MATLAB software is 32.4%, and the core porosity measured in a nuclear magnetic resonance experiment is 29.9%; thus, the accuracy of the model is validated. Further, the method of simulating the process of physical and chemical changes by using the digital core is proposed for further study.

Ultrasonic Test on Recycled Concrete: Relationship among Ultrasonic Waves Velocity, Compressive Strength and Elastic Modulus

2014 ◽  
Vol 894 ◽  
pp. 45-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luisa Pani ◽  
Lorena Francesconi
Keyword(s):  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Elastic Modulus ◽  
Ultrasonic Wave ◽  
Ultrasonic Test ◽  
Ultrasonic Waves ◽  
Recycled Concrete ◽  
Recycled Aggregates ◽  
Experimental Program ◽  
Static Modulus ◽  
Cylindrical Samples

In this paper an experimental program has been carried out in order to compare compressive strength fcand elastic static modulus Ecof recycled concrete with ultrasonic waves velocity Vp, to establish the possibility of employing nondestructive ultrasonic tests to qualify recycled concrete. 9 mix of concrete with different substitution percentage of recycled aggregates instead of natural ones and 27 cylindrical samples have been made. At first ultrasonic tests have been carried out on cylindrical samples, later elastic static modulus Ecand compressive strength fchave been experimentally evaluated. The dynamic elastic modulus Edhas been determined in function of ultrasonic wave velocity Vp; furthermore the correlations among Ed, Ec, fce Vphave been determined. It has been demonstrated that ultrasonic tests are suitable for evaluating different deformative and resisting concrete performances even when variations are small.

Enhanced and Rock Typing-Based Reservoir Characterization of the Palaeocene Harash Carbonate Reservoir-Zelten Field-Sirte Basin-Libya

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Masoud ◽  
W. Scott Meddaugh ◽  
Masoud Eljaroshi ◽  
Khaled Elghanduri
Keyword(s):  
Rock Type ◽  
Carbonate Reservoir ◽  
Classification Model ◽  
Reservoir Rocks ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Samples ◽  
Rock Types ◽  
Rock Typing ◽  
Open Hole ◽  
Type Classification

Abstract The Harash Formation was previously known as the Ruaga A and is considered to be one of the most productive reservoirs in the Zelten field in terms of reservoir quality, areal extent, and hydrocarbon quantity. To date, nearly 70 wells were drilled targeting the Harash reservoir. A few wells initially naturally produced but most had to be stimulated which reflected the field drilling and development plan. The Harash reservoir rock typing identification was essential in understanding the reservoir geology implementation of reservoir development drilling program, the construction of representative reservoir models, hydrocarbons volumetric calculations, and historical pressure-production matching in the flow modelling processes. The objectives of this study are to predict the permeability at un-cored wells and unsampled locations, to classify the reservoir rocks into main rock typing, and to build robust reservoir properties models in which static petrophysical properties and fluid properties are assigned for identified rock type and assessed the existed vertical and lateral heterogeneity within the Palaeocene Harash carbonate reservoir. Initially, an objective-based workflow was developed by generating a training dataset from open hole logs and core samples which were conventionally and specially analyzed of six wells. The developed dataset was used to predict permeability at cored wells through a K-mod model that applies Neural Network Analysis (NNA) and Declustring (DC) algorithms to generate representative permeability and electro-facies. Equal statistical weights were given to log responses without analytical supervision taking into account the significant log response variations. The core data was grouped on petrophysical basis to compute pore throat size aiming at deriving and enlarging the interpretation process from the core to log domain using Indexation and Probabilities of Self-Organized Maps (IPSOM) classification model to develop a reliable representation of rock type classification at the well scale. Permeability and rock typing derived from the open-hole logs and core samples analysis are the main K-mod and IPSOM classification model outputs. The results were propagated to more than 70 un-cored wells. Rock typing techniques were also conducted to classify the Harash reservoir rocks in a consistent manner. Depositional rock typing using a stratigraphic modified Lorenz plot and electro-facies suggest three different rock types that are probably linked to three flow zones. The defined rock types are dominated by specifc reservoir parameters. Electro-facies enables subdivision of the formation into petrophysical groups in which properties were assigned to and were characterized by dynamic behavior and the rock-fluid interaction. Capillary pressure and relative permeability data proved the complexity in rock capillarity. Subsequently, Swc is really rock typing dependent. The use of a consistent representative petrophysical rock type classification led to a significant improvement of geological and flow models.

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