Journal
SPE RESERVOIR EVALUATION & ENGINEERING
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 44-52Publisher
SOC PETROLEUM ENG
DOI: 10.2118/89070-PA
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Canada contains vast reserves of heavy oil and bitumen. Viscosity determination is key to the successful recovery of this oil, and low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) shows great potential as a tool for estimating this property. An NMR viscosity correlation previously had been developed that is valid for order-of-magnitude estimates over a wide range of viscosities and temperatures. This correlation was built phenomenologically, using experiments relating NMR spectra to viscosity. The present work details a more thorough investigation into oil viscosity and NMR thus providing a theoretical justification for the proposed correlation. A novel tuning procedure is also presented, whereby the correlation is fitted using the Arrhenius relationship to improve the NMR viscosity estimates for single oils at multiple temperatures. Tuning allows for NMR to be potentially used in observation wells to monitor thermal enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects or online to monitor the viscosity of produced-fluid streams as they cool.
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