Estimating Residual Oil Saturation in Carbonate Rocks: A Combined Approach of Direct Simulation and Data-Driven Analysis
A. S. Rizk,
M. Tembely,
W. AlAmeri
et al.
Abstract:Summary
Estimating residual oil saturation (Sor) post-waterflooding is critical for selecting enhanced oil recovery strategies, further field development, and production prediction. We established a data-driven workflow for evaluating Sor in carbonate samples using microcomputed tomography (μ-CT) images. The two-phase lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) facilitated the flooding simulation on 7,192 μ-CT samples. Petrophysical parameters (features) obtained from pore network modeling (PNM) and feature … Show more
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