Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Dhahran, SA)
What is a Patent for Tri-axial test instrument for NMR
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With the current environment of petroleum exploration and production, which is focused on maximising reservoir output through enhanced oil recovery (“EOR”), and a fierce battle to exploit unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs, it is essential that all stages of development cycles for reservoirs are improved. To evaluate the effectiveness of oil recovery it is essential to answer the fundamental questions about how exact reserve estimations were made and what the maximum recoverable recovery was calculated and how quickly production estimates were calculated. In the last 30 years, the oil industry has made great strides in answering these fundamental questions. But, with many of the reservoirs in the world operating at high production and unconventional drilling techniques being the norm, the need for improved accuracy of data and speed of delivery to aid in decision-making has gained importance. It is essential to have a precise efficient and cost-effective evaluation of reserve estimation maximumachievable recovery and the potential rate of production which can be conducted in a timely fashion.
Furthermore for the oil industry it is crucial to analyze the interaction between reservoir rocks and fluids with respect to the formation’s temperature and pressure. Temperature, pressure, and composition of reservoir fluids vary when they are created. These changes must be accurately modeled and their impact on the production process of the reservoir must be recognized. For this purpose, proper testing equipment, test design and various sensor technologies should be utilized to produce data that can help determine the behavior of reservoirs starting from exploration and ending with abandonment. Furthermore, the test techniques and test equipment need to be sophisticated so as to properly analyzeunconventional reservoirs, such as shale gas, tight gas sand (TGS), heavy oil, tar sand, hydrates, and depleted enhanced oil recovery reservoirs. The successful design and implementation of any unconventional reservoir or FOR mechanism (such as water,steam, chemical, thermal, and biological processes) must be studied under the right environment to achieve the desired results in an EOR treatment analysis.
In addition, the test data collected on reservoir retrieved core and fluid samples should have attributes to mimic the larger set of data that is continuously acquired in the course of logging, well testing and seismic data collection. The current NMRsetups available lack the ability to produce data under conditions of reservoirs.
One of the features of the invention is a triaxial magnetic resonance device that can be used to test the properties of petrophysical materials and collect geo-mechanical information. The tri-axial nuclear magnetic resonance device comprises a tri-axialload frame, which houses an tri-axial load chamber having tri-axial sample holders and at least one space that surrounds the tri-axial sample holder at least one cap on the end that can be used to connect the tri-axial load cell at least one electrical sensor at least one acoustic sensor and an instrument for nuclear magnetic resonance.
In a different way the invention offers the method for making use of tri-axial nuclear resonance device. To create a tri-axial loaded load cell, the method involves taking a sample from an accumulator. The loaded tri-axial load cell is then placed in contact with at least one end cap of the triaxial nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus. The fluid flow is then formed through at-least one cap and into the space around the triaxial sample-holder to create a triaxial pressure. Tri-axial pressures could be any combination of the pressures radial, axial, confining, and pore. The temperature control fluid is circulated around the tri-axial sample holder through the provision of the temperature control fluid via at least one cap to the at least one of the spaces surrounding the tri-axial holder to keep the temperature constant in the tri-axialsample holder during the analysis. The test fluid is supplied through at least one end cap to the loaded holders for the sample. A time dependent slice nuclear magnetic resonance scan of the sample is carried out using the nuclear magnetic resonanceinstrument. Analyzing the sample electrically using the at least one electrical sensor , and an acoustical analysis of the sample by using the at-least one acoustic sensors are also carried out.
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