Abstract:Diatomite oil reservoirs are unconventional. They hold billions of barrels of oil in a tight rock matrix with unusual physical properties, and contain a stress-sensitive natural fracture system that introduces a strong permeability anisotropy during fluid injection. Perhaps the most unusual feature of diatomite is geochemical in nature. Diatomite undergoes a silica-phase reordering and transformation as temperature is raised, whereby amorphous Opal-A is converted to a more ordered Opal-A' and more dense, cryst… Show more
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