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EPSRC Reference:	GR/N21208/01
Title:	SIGNIFICANCE OF NON-PRODUCABLE PETROLEUM COMPOUNDS IN RESERVOIRS: INFLUENCE ON PETROPHYSICAL/CORE PARAMETERS
Principal Investigator:	Larter, Professor S
Other Investigators:	Corbett, Professor PWM
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Project Partners:	Amerada Hess Ltd BG Core Magnetics Halliburton Reservoir Management Ltd Schlumberger
Department:	Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Organisation:	Newcastle University
Scheme:	LINK
Starts:	01 April 2001	Ends:	31 March 2004	Value (£):	110,169
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Oil & Gas Extraction
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Energy
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In addition to investigating the origin and distribution of surface active petroleum compounds and their variation in-reservoir with reservoir rock type and properties, the petroleum group at Newcastle University will provide basic essential fluid characterisation of produced oils and core extract petroleums. This basic data set will form a key component of the project data base. This will also determine which cores are contaminated by drilling invasion. Th project will monitor the compositional differences (in hydrocarbons and polar non-hydrocarbons) of in-situ petroleum (solvent extractable residue material in stored core) and equivalent produced petroleums from shaley sand and carbonate reservoirs identifying the key compounds that effectively track changing petrophysical properties. The project will develop a suite of chemical logs that provide surrogate equivalents to Amott-Harvey indices (AHT) which can be determined difectly on the core. This in conjunction with actual AHI data will allow scaling of actual wettability data to a more continuous detailed wettability log. Finally, we will investigate the origin of the fluorenone group of compounds in core petroleums which show strong correlations with petrophysical measurements but may have origins during drilling and sampling.
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