Quantitative fluorescence techniques for investigating hydrocarbon charge history in carbonate reservoir

Experimental Study and Simulation of Different EOR Techniques in a Non-Fractured Carbonate Core from an Iranian Offshore Oil Reservoir

In this research the experimental and theoretical studies on different Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) techniques, i.e. Water Flooding (WF), Gas Injection (GI) and Water Alternating Gas process (WAG) were performed on specimens taken from an Iranian carbonate offshore reservoir at the reservoir condition. The experimental results for each specified techniques were compared with the correspondin...

Evaluating Different Approaches to Permeability Prediction in a Carbonate Reservoir

Permeability can be directly measured using cores taken from the reservoir in the laboratory. Due to high cost associated with coring, cores are available in a limited number of wells in a field. Many empirical models, statistical methods, and intelligent techniques were suggested to predict permeability in un-cored wells from easy-to-obtain and frequent data such as wireline logs. The main obj...

Assessment of Clustering Methods for Predicting Permeability in a Heterogeneous Carbonate Reservoir

Permeability, the ability of rocks to flow hydrocarbons, is directly determined from core. Due to high cost associated with coring, many techniques have been suggested to predict permeability from the easy-to-obtain and frequent properties of reservoirs such as log derived porosity. This study was carried out to put clustering methods (dynamic clustering (DC), ascending hierarchical clustering ...

Microbial Techniques for Hydrocarbon Exploration

Sulfate in Foraminiferal Calcium Carbonate : Investigating a Potential Proxy for Sea Water Carbonate Ion Concentration

The sulfur content of planktonic and benthic foraminifera was measured in specimens recovered from deep-sea sediment cores and individuals grown in culture. A new method for measuring sulfur in foraminiferal calcium carbonate was developed, employing a high-resolution inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer. The sulfur measurements, expressed as sulfur-to-calcium (S/Ca) ratios in the foram...