Induced polarization effect in reservoir rocks and its modeling based on generalized effective-medium theory

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Parent link:Resource-Efficient Technologies: electronic scientific journal/ National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU).— , 2015-.— 2405-6537
Vol. 1, Iss. 1.— 2015.— [P. 34-48]
Main Author: Burtman V. Vladimir
Other Authors: Zhdanov M. S. Michael
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One of the major tasks of the petroleum resource-efficient technologies (pREFFIT) is the development and improvement of the methods of exploration for energy resources. This review paper summarizes the results of the research on induced polarization (IP) effect in reservoir rocks conducted by the University of Utah Consortium for Electromagnetic Modeling and Inversion (CEMI) and TechnoImaging. The electrical IP effect in hydrocarbon (HC) bearing reservoir rocks having nonmetallic minerals is usually associated with membrane polarization, which is caused by a variation in the mobility of the ions throughout the rock structure. This mobility is related to the size and shape of the pores filled with electrolyte and the double electrical layers. We have studied the IP response of multiphase porous systems by conducting complex resistivity (CR) frequency-domain IP measurements for two different groups of samples: sands and sandstones containing salt water in pores and those whose unsaturated pores were filled with synthetic oil. We have also studied selected carbonate reservoir formations, typical of some major HC deposits.
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://earchive.tpu.ru/handle/11683/50192
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
KOHA link:https://koha.lib.tpu.ru/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=553607
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Summary:Title screen
One of the major tasks of the petroleum resource-efficient technologies (pREFFIT) is the development and improvement of the methods of exploration for energy resources. This review paper summarizes the results of the research on induced polarization (IP) effect in reservoir rocks conducted by the University of Utah Consortium for Electromagnetic Modeling and Inversion (CEMI) and TechnoImaging. The electrical IP effect in hydrocarbon (HC) bearing reservoir rocks having nonmetallic minerals is usually associated with membrane polarization, which is caused by a variation in the mobility of the ions throughout the rock structure. This mobility is related to the size and shape of the pores filled with electrolyte and the double electrical layers. We have studied the IP response of multiphase porous systems by conducting complex resistivity (CR) frequency-domain IP measurements for two different groups of samples: sands and sandstones containing salt water in pores and those whose unsaturated pores were filled with synthetic oil. We have also studied selected carbonate reservoir formations, typical of some major HC deposits.