Determining acid injection treatment parameters

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9482079-B2
Application number	US-201314015933-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 30, 2013
Priority date	Aug 30, 2013
Publication date	Nov 1, 2016
Grant date	Nov 1, 2016

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to determining acid injection treatment parameters. One example method includes identifying one or more characteristics of a rock structure; and determining one or more parameters of an acid injection treatment to produce a specified flow structure in the rock structure when the acid injection treatment is applied, the one or more parameters of the acid injection treatment determined based on the one or more characteristics of the rock structure and including at least one of an injection flow velocity or a characteristic of an acid to be used in the acid injection treatment.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving a plurality of rock structure characteristics, the rock structure comprising a rock formation that includes a wellbore formed therethrough;
receiving a plurality of core sample characteristics, the core sample associated with the rock structure;
determining, by one or more processors of a computing system, based on the rock structure characteristics, an injection flow velocity of an acid injection treatment to produce a specified flow structure in the formation when the acid injection treatment is applied;
determining, by the one or more processors, based on the injection flow velocity, the rock structure characteristics, and the core sample characteristics, a lab core flow rate of the acid injection treatment; and
determining, by the one or more processors, based on the lab core flow rate and the rock structure characteristics, a field well flow rate of the acid injection treatment.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the injection flow velocity is further based on one or more characteristics of the acid to be used in the acid injection treatment, the one or more characteristics comprising a reaction rate.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the injection flow velocity comprises applying an acidization formula of the form

u
o

=

1
Λ

⁢

ɛ
o

⁢

D
eT

⁢

k
eff

,

where u o is the injection flow velocity, Λis a parameter indicating an acid channel shape at core-flow conditions, ε o is an initial porosity of the rock structure, D eT is an effective transverse dispersion coefficient, and kern is an effective dissolution rate constant.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising converting the injection flow velocity to an injection rate.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining one or more parameters of the acid injection treatment by presenting one or more options associated with the acid injection treatment, each option including one or more parameters associated with the acid injection treatment and being configured to achieve the specified flow structure in the rock structure.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining one or more parameters of the acid injection treatment that will produce a monotonic, non-ramified structure within the rock structure.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the core sample characteristics comprise at least one of: a porosity, a permeability, or a temperature.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the specified flow structure is a wormhole structure.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising performing an acid injection treatment on the rock structure based on the determined field well flow rate.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising outputting a relationship between injection flow velocity and reaction rate, or between injection flow velocity and porosity.

11. A system comprising:
memory for storing data; and
one or more processors operable to perform operations comprising:
receiving a plurality of rock structure characteristics, the rock structure comprising a rock formation that includes a wellbore formed therethrough;
receiving a plurality of core sample characteristics, the core sample associated with the rock structure;
determining, based on the rock structure characteristics, an injection flow velocity of an acid injection treatment to produce a specified flow structure in the formation when the acid injection treatment is applied;
determining, based on the injection flow velocity, the rock structure characteristics, and the core sample characteristics, a lab core flow rate of the acid injection treatment and
determining, based on the lab core flow rate and the rock structure characteristics, a field well flow rate of the acid injection treatment.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein determining the injection flow velocity is further based on one or more characteristics of the acid to be used in the acid injection treatment, the one or more characteristics comprising a reaction rate.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein determining the injection flow velocity comprises applying an acidization formula of the form

u
o

=

1
Λ

⁢

ɛ
o

⁢

D
eT

⁢

k
eff

,

where u o is the injection flow velocity, Λ is a parameter indicating an acid channel shape at core-flow conditions, ε o is an initial porosity of the rock structure, D eT is an effective transverse dispersion coefficient, and k eff is an effective dissolution rate constant.

14. The system of claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprise converting the injection flow velocity to an injection rate.

15. The system of claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprise determining one or more parameters of the acid injection treatment by presenting one or more options associated with the acid injection treatment, each option including one or more parameters associated with the acid injection treatment and being configured to achieve the specified flow structure in the rock structure.

16. The system of claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprise determining one or more parameters of the acid injection treatment that will produce a monotonic, non-ramified structure within the rock structure.

17. The system of claim 11 , wherein the core sample characteristics comprise at least one of: a porosity, a permeability, or a temperature.

18. The system of claim 11 , wherein the specified flow structure is a wormhole structure.

19. The system of claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprising performing an acid injection treatment on the rock structure based on the determined field well flow rate.

20. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions operable when executed to cause at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving a plurality of rock structure characteristics, the rock structure comprising a rock formation that includes a wellbore formed therethrough;
receiving a plurality of

Assignees

• Halliburton Energy Services Inc

Inventors

• Li Weiming
• Kralovetz Aaron Christopher

Classifications

• E21B43/25

  Methods for stimulating production {(by vibrating earth formations E21B43/003)} · CPC title

• E21B43/16 Primary

  Enhanced recovery methods for obtaining hydrocarbons · CPC title

• C09K8/66

  Compositions based on water or polar solvents (C09K8/64 takes precedence) · CPC title

• E21B43/26

  by forming crevices or fractures · CPC title