Methods for determining wettability from NMR

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PATENT NO 9405037
APP PUB NO 20130261979A1
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13854183

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Methods are described for wettability characterization based on NMR measurements, which are sensitive to the surface wetting conditions of oil and water at the pore scale. The described methods make use of surface relaxation effects on the NMR relaxation (T2). Workflows are described to obtain wettability profiles of a porous media such as a rock either in the native state or prepared to a certain state in the laboratory. An underlying forward model is also described for the mixed wet and fractionally saturated pore spectrum. Outputs of the described inversion include continuous saturation and wettability profiles as a function of the pore sizes in the porous media, as well as an averaged value for saturation and wettability over the entire pore spectrum.

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SAUDI ARAMCO1 EASTERN AVENUE DHAHRAN 31311

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Al-Muthana, Ahmed Dhahran, SA 1 27
Ali, Farhan Dammam, SA 9 184
Bachman, Henry N Missouri City, US 9 143
Hursan, Gabor Dhahran, SA 9 99
Ma, Shouxiang Dhahran, SA 31 134
Nicot, Benjamin Rio De Janeiro, BR 8 61
Singer, Philip M Richmond, US 9 77
Valori, Andrea Al-Khobar, SA 10 78

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