Micro-computed tomography pore-scale study of flow in porous media: Effect of voxel resolution

SM Shah, F Gray, JP Crawshaw, ES Boek - Advances in water resources, 2016 - Elsevier
A fundamental understanding of flow in porous media at the pore-scale is necessary to be
able to upscale average displacement processes from core to reservoir scale. The study of …

Predicting porosity and permeability of carbonate rocks from core-scale to pore-scale using medical CT, confocal laser scanning microscopy and micro CT

SM Shah, J Yang, JP Crawshaw, O Gharbi… - SPE Annual Technical …, 2013 - onepetro.org
Carbonate rocks have a very complicated and heterogenous porous structure in comparison
with sandstone reservoir rock. To understand the transport processes in any porous …

Comparison of petrophysical properties of porous rocks using NMR, micro-CT, and fluid flow simulations

A Jyoti, RR Haese - Geosciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) is increasingly utilized to image the pore network
and to derive petrophysical properties in combination with modelling software. The effect of …

Resolution effect on image-based conventional and tight sandstone pore space reconstructions: origins and strategies

X Feng, J Zeng, H Zhan, Q Hu, Z Ma, S Feng - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
A suitable choice of spatial resolution is essential to the three-dimensional (3D) image-
based reconstruction of rock pore space: a too low spatial resolution may result in the …

In situ wettability investigation of aging of sandstone surface in alkane via X-ray microtomography

NK Jha, M Lebedev, S Iglauer, JS Sangwai… - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
Wettability of surfaces remains of paramount importance for understanding various natural
and artificial colloidal and interfacial phenomena at various length and time scales. One of …

Higher-Resolution Monitoring of Saturation Distribution in Carbonate Plug Core by Micro Computed Tomography Technology—Proper Core Restoration For EOR …

H Yonebayashi, T Uetani, H Kaido - SPE EOR Conference at Oil and …, 2018 - onepetro.org
It is ultimately important to restore core to the original reservoir wettability condition for
evaluating low salinity water EOR properly because wettability should be a critical …

3D modeling of carbonate rock porous media and estimation of petrophysical parameters

TM Silveira, WG Silva, P Couto, JL Alves - SPE Latin America and …, 2017 - onepetro.org
Pre-salt carbonate reservoirs are known by their huge heterogeneity and their porous
system present a challenge regarding reservoir characterization, petrophysical parameters …

Sensitivity study on the impact of sub-volume and image resolution on the prediction of petrophysical properties using micro CT technology

MF Alzayer - SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 2017 - onepetro.org
The introduction of high-resolution micro-CT scanners in oil & gas industry has provided a
cost effective approach to numerically calculate the important petrophysical properties of …

Managing to Reproduce Original Carbonate Core Condition: Is Core Initialized Realistically on Three-Dimensional Geometry?

H Yonebayashi, T Uetani, H Kaido - SPE International Conference and …, 2022 - onepetro.org
In this study, we established initial water saturation (Swi) using three techniques:(1) the
dynamic displacement technique,(2) the porous plate technique, and (3) the vacuum …

[PDF][PDF] A Sensitivity Study of the Sub-volume and Resolution on the Prediction of Petrophysical Properties

MF Alzayer - 2014 - core.ac.uk
Oil and gas are becoming more and more difficult to extract as most major hydrocarbon
fields are maturing and with steady production decline. Understanding reservoir behavior at …