Construction and evaluation of synthetic carbonate plugs.

• Ano de defesa: 2018
• Autor(a) principal: Arismendi Florez, Jhonatan Jair
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Biblioteca Digitais de Teses e Dissertações da USP
• Palavras-chave em Português: Carbonate; Carbonatos; Consolidação; Consolidation; Molhabilidade; Petrofisica; Petróleo; Petroleum; Petrophysics; Plugs; Plugues; Propriedades físicas das rochas; Sinteticos; Synthetic; Wettability
• Link de acesso: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/3/3134/tde-22032019-111757/

Many of Brazil\'s pre-salt basins are located in ultra-deep waters, and the high heterogeneities of its offshore carbonate reservoirs make the extraction of representative rock samples difficult, risky and expensive. Synthetic plugs are required to understand oilfield properties and the behavior of oil in reservoirs where natural plugs cannot be extracted. Specifically, in cases where it is necessary to reproduce representative mineralogical and petrophysical characteristics from carbonates reservoir, it is evident that there are a lack of publications focusing on synthetic plug construction. In this work, the construction of synthetic plugs is studied, using a combination of published methodologies to achieve an alternative construction of synthetic carbonate plugs for laboratory scale studies. The obtained plugs used a procedure based on disintegrated rock matrices with known particle sizes and particle size ratio, uniaxial compaction with controlled load force and velocity, CaCO3 solubility control by changing temperature and pH and bonding material. Consolidation, wettability and petrophysical properties of the synthetic plugs were evaluated to characterize them. Generally, it was observed that the porosity and permeability features of the synthetic plugs were within the range of carbonate reservoirs. However, without reproducing a heterogeneous pore structure normally present in natural samples. On the other hand, wettability properties of the resulted synthetic plugs were similar to the natural carbonate plugs. Further studies are necessary to obtain more similar chemical and petrophysical properties to the natural samples.