Abstract Waterflooding has been practiced as a secondary recovery mechanism for many years with no regard to the composition of injected brine. However, in last decade, there an interest understand impact water and low salinity waterflooding (LSWF) oil recovery. LSWF investigated through various laboratory tests promising method improving carbonate reservoirs. These experiments showed diverse m...

Abstract Higher oil recovery after waterflood in carbonate reservoirs is attributed to increasing water wettability of the rock that turn relies on complicated surface chemistry. In addition, calcite mineral reacts with aqueous solutions and can alter substantially composition injected by dissolution. Carefully designed chemical and/or brine flood compositions laboratory may not remain intact w...

-Inorganic chemical analyses and short-chain aliphatic acid content are used to interpret the origin and compositional evolution of formation waters in the Alberta portion of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. Forty-three formation water samples were obtained covering a stratigraphic interval from Devonian to Cretaceous. The data show that: (1) there is a subaerially evaporated brine compone...

[1] Successful geologic sequestration of carbon in deep saline aquifers requires accurate predictive models of rock-brine-CO2 interaction. Often overlooked in siliciclastichosted saline reservoirs is the carbonate buffering of the groundwater. Carbonate minerals are ubiquitous, even in siliciclastic host rocks, resulting in some carbonate buffering. Geochemical modeling of rock-brine-CO2 system...

Water saturation determination is one of the most important tasks in reservoir studies to predict oil and gas in place needed to be calculated with more accuracy. The estimation of this important reservoir parameter is commonly determined by various well logs data and by applying some correlations that may not be so accurate in some real practical cases, especially for carbonate reservoirs. Sin...

Investigation of pore system properties of carbonate reservoirs has an important role in evaluating the reservoir quality and delineating high production intervals. The current study proposes a three-step approach for pore throat size characterization of these reservoirs, by integrating core data, well logs and 3D seismic volume. In this respect, first the pore throats size was calculated using...