Measurement of Damköhler number on the X-Ray computed tomography basis in the process of heavy oil carbonate reservoir acidizing

Abstract

© Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. Nowadays, cases of the joint use of thermal and chemical methods of enhanced oil recovery have become more frequent. In this regard, acid treatment has an important role, which allows increasing the productivity of wells with low-permeability carbonate reservoirs. At the experimental level, the presence of an optimal injection mode has been proven, that depends on the dimensionless of Damköhler number and leads to the formation of "wormholes" of dissolution with increasing reservoir permeability. In this work, a new optimized method for calculating the Damköhler number based on X-ray computed tomography data is proposed. A comparison of the calculation of values by the classical and the new technique for different wormholes is presented.