Abstract
The diversion efficiency measures the acid capacity to change its flow direction to the lower permeability reservoir sections. A good acid diverter creates a tortuous (zigzagged) wormhole within the acidized core sample in a laboratory setup. Here, we studied two different acid diverters compared to the conventional hydrochloric acid (HCl) to investigate their efficiency in changing the wormhole direction inside the rock core. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) can be used to measure the 3D tortuosity of a rock sample; hence, we propose it as a tool to measure acid diversion efficiency because it can be applied in the field and in the laboratory. Two acid systems were utilized: straight 15 wt.% HCl acid and gelled acid consisting of 15 wt.% HCl acid and polyacrylamide polymer (PAM). Four coreflooding experiments were conducted on 1.5 inch-diameter × 3 inch-length Indiana limestone samples, two with straight HCl acid and two with gelled HCl acid at different PAM concentrations. NMR was utilized to measure the T2 distribution of the rock samples and diffusion tortuosity in two orthogonal directions. Also, X-ray computed tomography (CT) of the acidized samples was taken to visualize the wormholes. Results showed that the polymer-based acid-created zigzagged paths, and more acid volume was consumed to create the wormholes using CT. NMR diffusion tortuosity measurements showed that the tortuosity was reduced along the wormhole direction in all experiments. Nevertheless, the gelled acid treatments showed a significant reduction of the tortuosity orthogonal to the main wormhole path. The diversion efficiency of the 50 lbm/ 1000 gal PAM-gelled acid was 35% higher compared to the straight HCl acid. On the contrary, the 30 lbm/ 1000 gal PAM-gelled acid gave only 10% improvement in the diversion. The index could screen quantitatively which diverting acid is more efficient. We introduced a new diversion index based on the NMR diffusion measurements in this study to quantify the diversion capacity of an acid system in carbonate rock.
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Introduction
Matrix acidizing is a well stimulation method that is applied to improve rock permeability and/or remove formation damage. The acid creates high permeability paths (i.e., wormholes) in carbonate rocks that bypass the damaged zone. In heterogeneous formations, acid overstimulates the high permeable sections of the reservoir, leaving the other tight sections unstimulated. Hence, various types of diverters are applied to direct the acid toward the tight rock sections, creating uniform stimulation (Aljawad et al., 2019). The reaction and the transport of acid inside the formation are governed by different process such as the reversible surface reaction, fluid transport to the rock, and the product transport away from the rock surface (Fredd and Fogler 1998). By taking into account all these processes, the rock dissolution is observed to depend on Damköhler number (Da) that needs to be optimized in order to reach breakthrough with the minimum number of injected pore volume (Fredd and Fogler 1999). The Damköhler number defines the ratio of the total rate of dissolution occurs by acid to the rate of acid convection, and it governed by the following equation:
where a is constant depends on the rock properties, DR is the acid restricted diffusion coefficient (m2/s), l is the pore length (m), Q is the injection flow rate (m3/s). The Q is controllable factor while DR depends on the acid properties. Hence, an accurate determination of diffusion coefficient is extremely important to be obtained using an independent measurement such as rotating disk or NMR diffusion experiments (Hoefner and Fogler 1989).
Different diverter types have been applied in acid stimulation: mechanical, viscous fluids, and solid particles. Mechanical diverters depend on tools to isolate a reservoir section, such as packers and ball sealers. Coil tubing is considered a mechanical diverter used to inject acid in the desired zone directly. On the other hand, solid diverters are small particles that are carried by fluids to accumulate and temporarily plug the high permeable zones, forcing the acid toward the low permeability sections. Fibers, wax beads, benzoic acid flakes, and rock salts are common solid diverters that are implemented in the field.
On the other hand, fluid diverters are the primary stimulating fluids that could be acid-based. The fluid viscosity increases during the acid reaction, which creates the diversion effect in-situ. These fluids could be based on the crosslinked gel, emulsifiers, viscoelastic surfactant (VES), foamers, etc. (Altunina et al. 2019; Zhang et al. 2021; Adewunmi et al. 2022). Polymer hydration creates gelled fluid; guar derivatives are the most common in the oil and gas industry. Carboxymethyl hydroxypropyl guar (CMHPG), hydroxypropyl guar (HPG), hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC), and polyacrylamide polymer (PAM) are usually used due to their fast hydration and low cost. A metal crosslinker is added to increase the gel viscosity and achieve better diversion. Borate is added as a crosslinker at high pH, while zirconium is usually used in a low pH environment (Barati and Liang 2014). One of the latest stimulation technologies is the double action emulsified acid which showed a great potential both in laboratories and field-scale trails. This technique gained its impotence because of its delayed reaction allowing a deeper stimulation job and less corrosion to the downhole tools. A novel emulsified acid was also invented that combine the previous advantages in addition to its capability to dissolve paraffin deposits that could clog the created wormhole (Martyushev and Vinogradov 2021; Derendyaev et al. 2022). Not only the fluid but also the carbonate rock mineralogy (limestone or dolomite) could play a major role in acid dissolution process. Recent study revealed that increasing the holding time of the acid and dolomitic rock interaction does not always guarantee an efficient acid job (Martyushev and Novikov 2020; Martyushev et al. 2022). The acid-rock reaction products could cause wormhole clogging that could decrease the rock permeability with increasing the holding time.
NMR is a powerful and non-destructive tool that has been widely used both in laboratory and field-scale as a wireline logging tool (Elsayed et al. 2022). Reliable measurements of fundamental petrophysical properties such as porosity, pore size distribution, permeability, and wettability can be obtained using NMR T2 relaxation time measurement (Timur 1969; Kenyon 1997; Straley et al. 1997; Al-Garadi et al. 2022). T2 relaxation time reflects the pore size distribution of single-fluid saturated rocks; hence, pore connectivity could be evaluated (Vogt et al. 2014). Accurate determination of pore size distribution (PSD) of the carbonate rocks using the mercury injection capillary pressure (MICP) or NMR could be of great importance for a successful acid job (Shafiq et al. 2018). Three different Indiana limestone rock core plugs with different PSD (micropore-dominated, micropore and macropore, and macropore dominated) were characterized using MICP, then they were acidized (Yoo et al. 2019). The authors concluded that micropore-dominated rocks undergo slower reaction rate and lower diffusion although samples all samples have the same mineralogy. Hence, ignoring the PSD characterization could lead to under–or overestimation of optimum reaction and diffusion coefficient. Several attempts were performed using NMR before and after the acidizing to evaluate the changes in the porosity and pore sizes after creating the wormhole (Al-Duailej et al. 2013; Mahmoud et al. 2016). NMR T2 relaxation time measurement captured the interconnectivity between the pore sizes qualitatively, which was indicated by the occurrence of larger T2 components (wormhole) coupled with the ones before acidizing. However, this technique could not capture the degree of sinuosity along the flow direction (i.e., tortuosity) and the branches of the wormhole created in the perpendicular direction.
Pulsed-field gradient (PFG) NMR is considered as one of the most robust and accurate techniques to measure the free and restricted diffusion coefficients (D, DR) of fluids inside porous media. PFG-NMR was firstly demonstrated by Stejskal and Tanner, based on the application of two magnetic field gradients (g) in opposite directions during (δ) separated by diffusion time (Δ) (Stejskal and Tanner 1965). Then, the diffusion of the NMR-bearing sample can be detected during Δ, which will result in NMR signal attenuation (S/S0) that is calculated using the following equation.
where γ is the gyromagnetic ratio of the nucleus under investigation (2.68 × 108 rads/s.T, for 1H). The deployment PFG-NMR technique showed a great potential to characterize pore structure and pore size distribution of several types of porous media for different applications based on the diffusion coefficient (Callaghan et al. 1991; Sen 2004; Kashif et al. 2019). The ratio between the free-bulk diffusion coefficient to the restricted-fluid (inside porous medium) diffusion coefficient is well-known as the diffusion tortuosity (τD) as per the following equation (Clennell 1997; Yang et al. 2019):
For ideal packing of similar grain size material, τD ≈ 1.4 (Blackwell 1962); however, it becomes higher for rock core plugs due to the pore structure's complexity. Outcrop Berea sandstone showed a range (2.4 < τD < 3.5); other sandstone such as Fontainebleau and Navajo showed values between 3.1and 4.9. On the other hand, carbonate rock plugs (i.e., Indiana Limestone) showed higher tortuosity values (7.8 < τD < 12.2) based on permeability (Hurlimann et al. 1994). The diffusion tortuosity can be measured in different directions depending on the applied magnetic field gradient. Thus, diffusion tortuosity anisotropy can be obtained by measuring the diffusion tortuosity in perpendicular directions independently. Diffusion tortuosity anisotropy is involved in a wide range of applications including energy storage (Long et al. 2004; Liu and Liu 2012), catalysis (Kolitcheff et al. 2018), bioengineering (Dvir et al. 2011), and oil & gas industry (Backeberg et al. 2017; Elsayed et al. 2021a). PFG-NMR was successfully implemented to locate the preferential direction of fracture by measuring the diffusion tortuosity along three directions (x, y, and z) of sandstone and carbonate rock core plugs (Elsayed et al. 2021c).
This study evaluates the diversion efficiency of acid in an acidized core sample by measuring the diffusion tortuosity along and perpendicular to the flow directions. The index of diversion was introduced in this work which indicates the diversion capacity of an acid system. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first study showing how PFG-NMR measurements could evaluate the diversion efficiency in matrix acidizing.
Acid diversion index and its evaluation techniques
The calculation of wormholes tortuosity to evaluate the efficiency of acid diversion capacity and performance has obtained a great attention recently, defined a new terminology called the wormhole length ratio that is defined as the length of longest wormhole created by VES acid to that of regular acid (Liu and Liu 2016). This would help comparing the acidizing effect between VES acid and conventional acid. A recent study came up with a comprehensive index of diversion performance that takes into account the following factors: stimulation performance (lwh = dimensionless wormhole length), plugging effect (KI = permeability improvement), and maximum differential pressure (DPR = normalized maximum differential pressure) (Cao et al. 2021). This index can be calculated using the following equation:
where C is the acid diversion efficiency score (Poor if 0 < S < 3; medium 4 < S < 6; better if 7 < S < 10).
There are multiple methods to evaluate the diversion capacity of an acid system. In field operations, diversion capacity is evaluated by monitoring the increase of surface pressure as the diverter interacts with the formation. The diversion could be evaluated in laboratory setup through the dual-coreflooding system or CT scan imaging. However, performing dual-coreflooding experiments is expensive and subject to experimental failures. On the other hand, CT scan images only provide qualitative analysis of the diversion capacity. Numerical simulators can be used to evaluate diversion, but they require detailed and accurate rheology and reaction data, which are seldom available. Hence, we proposed to use PFG-NMR measurements to quantify the diversion capacity of an acid system. Table 1 summarizes the available techniques in the literature to measure the diversion capacity of an acid.
Methodology
Materials
Two different acid types were used in coreflooding experiments, as shown in Table 2. The first fluid system consists of 15 wt.% HCl acid without additives (i.e., straight HCl acid). The second fluid system is made of 15 wt.% HCl with different percentages of polyacrylamide polymer (PAM) with the formula (-CH2CHCONH2-). Samples Ind-1 and Ind-11 were treated with HCl acid, whereas samples Ind-2 and Ind-22 were acidized with gelled acid (i.e., polymer-based acid). Standard core plugs (1.5-inch × 3-inch) of Indiana limestone (Ind) were utilized. The rock samples in the first set of experiments (A) have high permeability and porosity. The properties of the rock samples are summarized in Table 3.
Experiments
NMR: The NMR measurements, including T2 and diffusion, were performed at room temperature using Oxford instruments MARAN DRX 12 MHz NMR Rock core analyzer. The system is featured with a three-dimensional magnetic field gradient with a maximum magnitude of 0.3 T/m and a 53-mm inner diameter radio frequency (RF) coil.
Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) pulse sequence were performed to acquire the T2 relaxation time distribution (Carr and Purcell 1954; Meiboom and Gill 1958). The T2 relaxation time distribution of porous medium is correlated to the confined pore size according to the Brownstein–Tarr equation and can be modeled as follows:
where T2,bulk is the transverse relaxation time of the bulk-free fluid (ms), ρ2 is the surface relaxivity (µm/ms), S/V is the surface-to-volume ratio (µm2/µm3), te is the echo time between the 180° RF refocusing pulses during the CPMG train (ms). By choosing the te = 0.1 ms, the effect of the internal gradient is minimized (Connolly et al. 2019; Elsayed et al. 2021b), and T2 becomes a direct indication of the pore sizes. Furthermore, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) was kept at 100, the number of echoes was 5,000, and the recycle delay was 10,000.
For the PFG-NMR measurements, the “13-interval” alternating pulsed gradient stimulated echo (APGSTE) NMR pulse sequence was used for the diffusion measurements to reduce the effect of the internal gradient; it was modeled as the following equation (Cotts et al. 1989):
where λ is the duration between the first two RF pulses (ms), ga and g0 are the applied, and internal magnetic field gradient (T/m), respectively, δ1 and δ2 are the pre- , and post-pulse time (ms), respectively. The previous equation can be simplified by choosing δ1 and δ2, and sets Δ > > λ; this will eliminate the second and the third terms, respectively. The equation becomes:
Table 4 lists a summary of the experimental parameters chosen for the NMR-PFG measurements. Note that the gradient strength was adjusted to ensure total signal attenuation approaches the noise level.
It is worth mentioning that all NMR measurements were performed with brine (3 wt% KCl) saturated rock core plugs. Heat shrink was utilized around the rock core plugs and at the inlet to ensure no loss for saturation. In order to obtain the diffusion tortuosity (τD), we follow this step-by-step procedure:
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Measure the free-bulk fluid diffusion coefficient (D); in our case, the fluid is brine (3wt% KCl). The brine was filled in Teflon container that is NMR-silent material to ensure the detectable signal is only received from the brine. The diffusion coefficient of the brine showed a value of (2.37 × 10–9 m2/s). This value does not change with increasing the diffusion time because the fluid is not confined to porous media.
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2-
Measure the restricted diffusion coefficient (DR) at different diffusion times (Δ) until no change in the value of DR is observed as illustrated in Fig. 1. This is done to guarantee that the molecules traveled through all the geometric restrictions of the pore space. This step should be performed by applying the magnetic field gradient in one direction (τD,x) and then repeated in the orthogonal direction (τD,y).
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3-
A plot of D/DR as a function of different diffusion times is used to obtain the τD value; that is the value where no change in the D/DR is observed as the diffusion time increases. Some scholars define the diffusion tortuosity using PFG-NMR as Eq. 2 (Latour et al. 1993; Frosch et al. 2000):
Coreflooding: In general, Coreflooding experiments are designed to test rock samples’ interaction with fluids while controlling the pressure, temperature, and flow rates. From the flow rate and pressure drop data, the permeability is measured using Darcy’s law:
where k is the rock core permeability (mD), q is the injection flow rate (cm3/min), A is the cross-sectional area of the flow (cm2), μ is fluid’s viscosity (cp), L is given distance (length of the core) for the pressure drop (cm), and ΔP is the pressure drop (psi).
A confining pressure of 1,500 psi and backpressure of 1,000 psi was maintained during coreflooding experiments. All acidizing experiments were performed at room temperature while the acid injection rate was 1 cm3/min. For the duration of the experiment, the pressure is monitored until a zero-pressure drop is observed. The pore volume injected until the wormhole breakthrough the sample was recorded (PVBT).
Procedure
The methodology used to prove the concept is shown in Fig. 2. First, the porosity and permeability of four Indiana limestone rock samples were measured. NMR is then used to measure the rock porosity and pore size distribution (PSD). It was also used to measure diffusion tortuosity in two orthogonal directions. These are the X-direction (orthogonal to wormhole propagation direction) and Y-direction (parallel to wormhole propagation direction). Then coreflooding was conducted by injecting two different HCl acid systems into the core samples until wormhole breakthrough. As shown in Fig. 2, these are straight HCl and polymer-based HCl at different polymer concentrations. CT scan is then used to image the treated samples to visualize the wormhole created. Finally, similar NMR measurements were conducted after the treatment to evaluate the wormhole.
Results and discussion
Four rock samples were characterized as illustrated in Table 3. It can be observed that set (A) has the same dimensions (1.5-inch × 3-inch) and similar porosity but slightly different permeability, and the same is valid for the set (B) but with lower permeability and porosity. Figure 3 shows the recorded pressure drop during the acid injection. The acid is injected until the pressure drop reaches zero, indicating a wormhole breakthrough. Notice that PVBT is higher for the polymer-based acid (i.e., gelled acid) than straight acid, considering both sets of experiments. Also, the higher the polymer concentration, the higher the required treatment volume.
Figure 4 shows the CT scan images of wormholed samples with and without diversion (i.e., PAM). Figure 4a shows that the straight HCl acid created a straight wormhole compared to the zigzagged wormhole created by the gelled acid. Larger wormholes were created in the inlet of the sample treated with the polymer-based acid. A similar conclusion can be observed in Fig. 4b, although the diversion of gelled acid was not as obvious visually. Because gelled acid resists traveling in the direction of flow, it has flow components in the direction perpendicular to the wormhole propagation, which enhances acid diversion. Table 5 shows the porosity values of the samples before and after treatment, indicating that the gelled acid results in a higher increase in porosity. This is attributed to the larger volume of acid needed for the wormhole to penetrate the sample.
Figure 5 shows the T2 relaxation time distributions for the samples used in this study. It is worth mentioning that the T2 distributions before acidizing (red-dotted curves) were almost identical for both samples; hence, one T2 distribution was plotted for each sister plug. Furthermore, the T2 distributions of the samples before acidizing have a single dominant peak which indicates a single pore system. After the injecting of acid, the samples were also analyzed. Figure 5a showed changes in the pore size distribution indicated by the increase in the distribution's probability density (NMR porosity), which agree with the helium porosity measurements tabulated in Table 5. In addition, larger T2 components (~ 5,000 ms) appeared, implying more freedom to the hydrogen spins caused by the pore size enlargement. It can be noticed that there is a slight separation between different pore systems due to the wormhole. Figure 5b shows similar behavior except for the clear separation between the pore systems. The important point is that both T2 distributions after acidizing for each sister plug showed the same T2 components (x-axis), although there were treated using different acids. Therefore, T2 relaxation time measurements could distinguish the diversion efficiency only from the increment in the porosity (y-axis), assuming that higher diversion efficiency results in high porosity. T2 distributions neither provide information about the pathway of the wormhole nor the direction.
Figure 6 shows the diffusion tortuosity measured in the y-direction of the samples. Notice that the diffusion coefficient drops initially and reaches an asymptotic value at longer diffusion times. At these long diffusion times, molecules diffuse through the large pore spaces, and hence DR level does not change with time. The inverse of the asymptotic value represents the diffusion tortuosity. Table 6 shows the calculated values of the diffusion tortuosity before and after acidizing. In general, large open spaces within the rock tend to reduce the rock tortuosity, and hence the wormholes do. If tortuosity reduction in both X- and Y-directions is similar, acid diversion is thought to be effective. That usually happens when a zigzagged wormhole is created, as in the PAM treatment of the Ind-2 and Ind-22 samples. On the other hand, the straight wormholes created by straight and HCl acids showed a reduction of tortuosity only on the Y-direction (see Table 6). This indicates poor diversion where acid did not react significantly in the direction opposite to the wormhole direction. The acid in these cases did not divert itself but followed the least resistance path. To evaluate the diversion capacity, the diversion index (\({I}_{d}\)) is postulated in this study which represents the ratio of diffusion tortuosity as shown below:
where \({\tau }_{d,y}\) is the diffusion tortuosity in the wormhole direction (Y-Direction) and \({\tau }_{d,x}\) is the diffusion tortuosity in the orthogonal direction (X-Direction) where the efficiency of the acid diversion can be evaluated as the following Table 6
We propose that the higher the diversion index, the better the diversion capacity of the acid system, as Table 7 indicates. Notice that the diversion index can be compared only to a sister sample. For instance, in this study, Ind-2 could be compared to Ind-1, and Ind-22 to Ind-11. For example, the diversion index ratio of the first experiment set was 1.35, indicating a 35% increase in diversion, while 1.1 for the second set indicated a 10% increase. This is logical as higher concentrations of PAM were utilized in the first set, which improves the diversion efficiency. It is worth mentioning that the values obtained here match very well with the results from our previous study where the carbonate samples where acidized using HCL only that created straight-line wormhole (Elsayed et al. 2021c). The HCl caused a reduction in the diffusion tortuosity in they Y-direction only.
Conclusions
The study showed that the PFG-NMR diffusion tortuosity measurements could quantify the acid diversion efficiency. Straight HCl acid was used to create straight wormholes in limestone samples, while a diverting acid created zigzagged wormholes, and here are some conclusions that can be drawn from this study:
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The wormhole shapes were visualized through CT scans of the acidized samples, in addition, the NMR diffusion tortuosity measurements were taken in directions parallel and perpendicular to the wormhole path to investigate the diversion efficiency:
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We introduce a new diversion efficiency index (Id) based on the NMR diffusion measurements. We found that the ratio of the diffusion tortuosity in the wormhole direction to the orthogonal one can quantify acid diversion efficiency.
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Based on the new diversion index, the diversion efficiency of the 50 lbm/ 1000 gal PAM gelled acid was 35% higher compared to the straight HCl acid. On the contrary, the 30 lbm/ 1000 gal PAM gelled acid gave only 10% improvement in the diversion. The index could screen quantitatively which diverting acid is more efficient.
Abbreviations
- A:
-
The Cross-Sectional Area of The Flow (cm2)
- a:
-
Constant Depends on the Rock Properties
- APGSTE:
-
Alternating Pulsed Gradient Stimulated Echo
- C:
-
The Acid Diversion Efficiency Score
- CMHPG:
-
Carboxymethyl hydroxypropyl guar
- CPMG:
-
Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill
- CT:
-
X-ray Computed Tomography
- D:
-
Free Diffusion Coefficients (m2/s)
- Da :
-
Damköhler Number
- DPR:
-
Normalized Maximum Differential Pressure
- DR :
-
Acid Restricted Diffusion Coefficient(m2/s)
- Gx :
-
Applied Magnetic Field Gradients in the X-direction (T/m)
- Gy :
-
Applied Magnetic Field Gradients in the Y-direction (T/m)
- G:
-
Magnetic Field Gradients (T/m)
- g0 :
-
Internal Magnetic Field Gradient (T/m)
- ga :
-
The Applied Magnetic Field Gradient (T/m)
- HCl:
-
Hydrochloric Acid
- HEC:
-
Hydroxyethyl cellulose
- HPG:
-
Hydroxypropyl guar
- Id :
-
The Diversion Index
- k:
-
The Rock Core Permeability (mD)
- KCl:
-
Potassium Chloride
- KI:
-
Permeability Improvement
- L:
-
Length Of The Core (cm)
- l:
-
Pore Length (cm)
- lwh :
-
Dimensionless Wormhole Length
- MICP:
-
Mercury Injection Capillary Pressure
- NMR:
-
Nuclear magnetic resonance
- PAM:
-
Polyacrylamide Polymer
- PFG-NMR:
-
Pulsed-Field Gradient Nuclear magnetic resonance
- PSD:
-
Pore Size Distribution
- PVBT:
-
The Pore Volume Injected Until The Breakthrough.
- Q:
-
The Injection Flow Rate (cm3/min)
- q:
-
Injection Flow Rate (cm3/min)
- RF:
-
Radio Frequency
- S/S0 :
-
NMR Signal Attenuation
- S/V:
-
The Surface-to-Volume Ratio.
- SNR:
-
Signal-To-Noise Ratio
- T2 :
-
The Transverse Relaxation Time (ms).
- T2,bulk :
-
The Bulk Fluid Transverse Relaxation Time(ms).
- T2,surface :
-
The Rock Surface Transverse Relaxation Time(ms).
- T2,diffusion :
-
The Fluid Diffusion Transverse Relaxation Time(ms).
- te :
-
Echo Time
- VES:
-
Viscoelastic Surfactant
- δ:
-
Time Between Two Magnetic Field Gradients(ms).
- Δ:
-
Diffusion Time(ms).
- γ:
-
Gyromagnetic Ratio (rads/s.T)
- δ1 and δ2 :
-
The Pre- and Post-Pulse Time(ms).
- ΔP:
-
The Pressure Drop (psi).
- μ:
-
Fluid’s Viscosity (cp)
- ρ2 :
-
The Surface Relaxivity (µm/ms)
- Φpre -acid :
-
Porosity of the Rock Core before Acid Treatment
- Φpost -acid :
-
Porosity of the Rock Core after Acid Treatment
- τD :
-
Diffusion Tortuosity
- τD ,x :
-
Diffusion Tortuosity In The X-Direction
- τ D ,y :
-
Diffusion Tortuosity In The Y-Direction
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Elsayed, M., BinGhanim, A., Aljawad, M.S. et al. Quantifying acid diversion efficiency through NMR tortuosity measurements. J Petrol Explor Prod Technol 13, 917–927 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13202-022-01587-x
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