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Effects of the laminated-structure and mixed wettability on the oil/water relative permeabilities and oil productions in shale oil formations

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DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2021.109457

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Laminated shale oil formations; Pore-size and wettability heterogeneities; Oil and water flow; Oil production; The lattice Boltzmann method; Numerical simulations

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [42090024, 52004317]
  2. Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China [ZR2020ME091]
  3. SINOPEC Science and Technology Research Project [P19017-6]
  4. Science and Technology Project of Shengli Oilfield Branch [YKK1919]

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This study investigates the effects of pore size and wettability heterogeneities in laminated shale oil formations on oil/water flow using the lattice Boltzmann method. The results show that the content and hydrophobicity of organic matter can affect oil production, and different relative permeabilities of mudstone and sandstone laminae can lead to errors in production calculations.
Shale oil formations are highly heterogeneous laminated systems containing organic matter (OM). In this study, oil/water flow in laminated shale oil formations are investigated from the pore-scale perspective using the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). The effects of the pore size and wettability heterogeneities including different pore sizes, contents of OM, wettabilities of OM, and OM distributions on oil/water flow are analyzed. The relative permeability curves of water and oil are calculated and then substituted into the model of numerical simulations to analyze the variations of oil production for each case. Results showed that the relative permeabilities of the mudstone and sandstone laminae are different, and that using the average relative permeabilities of the two laminae can lead to significant errors in the calculation of oil production. With the content and the hydrophobicity of OM increasing and with OM locating in the middle of the mudstone, more oil occupies the pore space around OM and thereby increases the relative permeability of oil (k(ro)) in the mudstone, but conversely decreases k(ro) in the sandstone, which in turn affects the proportions of oil production through the mudstone and sandstone.

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