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Acid Wormholing in Carbonate Reservoirs: Successes and Future Challenges

Conference Paper · March 2015

DOI: 10.3997/2214-4609.201412005

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Acid Wormholing in Carbonate Reservoirs:
Successes and Future Challenges
D.R. Guerillot* (Qatar Petroleum) & V.R. Ambati (Qatar Petroleum)

SUMMARY
Carbonate rock formation in petroleum reservoirs are highly heterogeneous in nature exhibiting complex
porosity and permeability variations leading to irregular pore scale flow paths. Therefore, developing
wormholes by acid stimulation in reservoir wells is favored for better injectivity and productivity of the
wells. Determining and attaining a regime for wormhole generation in carbonates is very challenging as it
depends on the variability of these petrophysical parameters. The objective of the present study is to
stimulate the discussions on the following key questions:
1. How well-understood are the key mechanisms of the reactive-transport phenomena in acid wormholing?
2. What are the state-of-the-art numerical modelling techniques to capture this phenomena and associated
commercial software's in the market?

3. How well-understood is this phenomena in the laboratory? And how valid are are the numerical
predictions for laboratory experiments?

4. How deterministic is to characterize and predict acid wormholing in carbonate reservoirs?

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