Pore volume berea sandstone using

Procedure. Core floods were carried out in horizontally mounted Berea sandstone cores of length 61 cm and diameter 5 cm. Porosity varied from 18 to 25% and brine permeability from 100 to 800 Jim2. The cores were coated with a thin layer of epoxy and cast in stainless steel core holders using molten Cerrobend alloy (melting point 70°C). The ends of the cores were machined flush with the core holder and flanges were bolted on. Pore volume was determined by vacuum followed by imbibition of brine. Absolute permeability and porosity were determined. The cores were initially saturated with brine (2% NaCl). An oil flood was then started at a rate of lOm/day until an irreducible water saturation (26-38%) was established. 

Another series of experiments used sandstone cores previously injected with starved bacteria to investigate the ability of the bacteria to grow within rock cores when given a suitable nutrient Berea sandstone cores of 200 and 400 millidarcy (md) permeabilities were used as they were considered to be more representative of reservoir conditions than the glass bead cores. The sandstone cores were injected with 300 to 450 pore volumes of 10 /ml starved bacteria until the cores contained an even distribution of bacteria (Fig. 3A B) and the core permeabilities were between 13% and 18%. SCM nutrient was injected through the cores (Fig. 3C) until the core permeability fell to 0.1%, this required 360 pore volumes of SCM. 

In another set of static equilibrium tests, one pore volime (PV) of alkaline solution was mixed individually with Aminoil IMZ, THUMS Ranger and Berea sandstone sands. The volume of one PV used was calculated from the porosity of the same sand v en it was packed for sand pack flow study. After standing for a number of days, the mixtures were filtered and the filtrates were analyzed for their alkaline consurtption by titration with standard acid. As depicted in Table II, the consurapticxis were rapid in all cases and the alkaline chemicals were totally or almost totally consumed after 6 to 9 days for the THUMS Ranger and Aminoil IMZ sands. The consumption with Berea sandstone sand was slower by comparison but still quite significant. 

STATIC EQUILIBRIUM STUDY TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE REACTIVITY OF RESERVOIR SANDS AND BEREA SANDSTONE SAND WITH THE USE OF Cm PORE VOLUME ALKALINE CHEMICALS AT 125 F... 

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