摘要:
Steam quality is measured by mixing the steam with a small amount of surfactant to convert the steam to a stable foam, passing the stable foam through a capillary tube to determine foam quality (volume of vapor per volume of vapor and liquid) by measuring the streaming potential coupling coefficient of the foam passing through the tube, and converting foam quality (volume per volume) to steam quality (mass of vapor per mass of vapor and liquid) based upon the fluid density of the liquid-water and water-vapor phase of the steam.
摘要:
An improved method for hydraulically fracturing a formation or reservoir where a thermo-setting gellable mixture is utilized. This thermo-setting mixture is foamed either at the surface or in situ under fracturing pressures and conditions. The mixture and carrier fluid is of a composition such that the foamed mixture has a viscosity of sufficient magnitude to cause a created fracture to grow while the foamed mixture is kept under fracturing pressure and conditions. Once a fracture of a desired size and length has been generated, the resin is ignited and thermally set thus forming a porous hardened solid within the fracture thereby holding the fracture open. Once combustion is finished, no spent fracturing fluids or load fluids remain to be recovered. This porous solid props the fracture open thereby increasing the conductivity of the formation or reservoir and fluid flow therefrom.
摘要:
A coring tool is lowered to the bottom of a wellbore through a subsurface formation. A coring bit at the lower end of the coring tool draws a core sample of the subsurface formation at the bottom of the wellbore into the coring tool. A coring barrel is positioned along the coring tool above and in juxtaposition with the coring bit. The core sample is drawn into a hollow cylindrical split member within the coring barrel, such member being split into two halves in an axial direction and comprised of a material effectively transparent to nuclear radiation. A wireline raises the split member containing the core sample upward through the coring tool to the surface of the earth. The core sample is tested for a nuclear radiation characteristic through the nuclear radiation transparent material of the split member at the well site. The split member is then reused to obtain a plurality of cores from the subsurface formation.
摘要:
A two-phase fluid, flow having a first fluid and an immiscible second fluid, is passed through a core sample. The core sample is scanned with X-rays to produce a display of fluid distribution within the core sample. Electrical resistivity is measured along the length of the core sample for those intervals having uniform first fluid distribution. The two-phase flow is continued to repetitively decrease the first fluid saturation in a plurality of drainage cycles with electrical resistivity being again measured for each drainage cycle. Thereafter, the two-phase fluid flow is continued to repetitively increase the first fluid saturation in a plurality of imbibition cycles with electrical resistivity being again measured for each imbibition cycle.
摘要:
A material sample representative of a subsurface formation is tested for its dynamic interaction with a coring fluid. The material sample is subjected to a pressurized and agitating coring fluid to simulate a coring operation. Thereafter the material sample is x-ray scanned to identify the extent of coring fluid invasion during the dynamic interaction of the material sample and the coring fluid.
摘要:
An oxygenated foam is injected into a hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir within a diatomite-containing subsurface formation to hydraulically form a fracture within the reservoir. Combustion is initiated between the oxygenated foam and hydrocarbons within the reservoir to burn the formation and alter diatomite within the burned area into a hardened, more highly permeable material. The reservoir may again be fractured to shatter the hardened diatomite to further increase reservoir permeability and form a self-propped fracture within the reservoir.
摘要:
A sample of material is rotated within a pair of parallel, spaced-apart laser beams. Variations in the diameter of the sample are determined with azimuth from the amounts of the laser beams intercepted by the sample as it rotates about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the laser beams. The sample is translated along this axis within the path of the laser beams so that the diameter of the sample is determined for a plurality of spaced-apart planes through the sample perpendicular to the axis of rotation. The deformation of the material with stress is determined by measuring the variations in diameter of the sample as the stress on the sample is changed.
摘要:
Measurements of reservoir characteristics of a core sample of a subsurface formation are carried out with the core sample being subjected to pressure cycling. Pore volume changes during such pressure cycling are measured. Pore compressibility is determined from a plot of the measured pore volume change versus pressure. Scanning of the core sample with X-rays each pressure cycle identifies the pressure at which fracturing is initiated.
摘要:
Hydrocarbons are produced from a subterranean reservoir by maintaining the effective reservoir pressure below the reservoir crushing pressure during a first production period, causing the effective reservoir pressure to exceed the reservoir crushing pressure after such first production period so as to crush the reservoir and reduce the reservoir permeability, and then producing hydrocarbons from the reservoir during a second production period in which hydrocarbon production is enhanced due to better sweep efficiency as a result of the lowered permeability of the reservoir.
摘要:
An oxygenated foam is injected into a loosely consolidated, clay-containing sandstone formation surrounding a well penetrating a hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir. Combustion is initiated between the oxygenated foam and hydrocarbons within the reservoir to burn the formation and form said consolidated zone around the well that acts as a barrier to the passage of sand into the well along with produced hydrocarbons.