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Pore throat plugging of porous rock by fine particles causes formation damage, and thus has attracted attention in various areas such as petroleum engineering, hydrology and geothermal energy production. Despite significant efforts, the detailed pore‐scale mechanisms leading to formation damage and the associated permeability reduction are not well understood. We thus investigated plugging mechanisms and characteristics with a combination of (i.e., coreflooding measurements and scanning electron microscopy imaging) and (i.e., nuclear magnetic resonance and μCT) methods, with a particular focus on the effect of wettability.

The corefloods indicated that permeability drops rapidly when fines are injected; mechanistically thin pore throats are plugged first, followed by filling of adjacent pore bodies with the fine material (as evidenced by the nuclear magnetic resonance and μCT experiments, which can measure the pore size distribution evolution with fines injection). Furthermore, it is clear that wettability plays a major role: if fines and rock wettability are identical, plugging is significantly accelerated; wettability also controls the 3D distribution of the fines in the pore space. Furthermore we note that the deposited fines were tightly packed, apparently due to strong adhesion forces.

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Impact of fines and rock wettability on reservoir formation damage
Geophysical Prospecting 64, 860 (2016); https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2478.12379
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Keyword(s): Bentheimer; Fines migration; Formation damage; Micro‐computed tomography; Plugging; Wettability

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