SPWLA Distinguished Speaker Webinar - New Date March 15th

SPWLA Distinguished Speaker Webinar - New Date March 15th

Quantifying Interfacial Interactions Between Minerals and Reservoir/Fracturing Fluids 

Paper Ref: SPWLA-2021-0072 (full abstract)
Speaker: Isa Silveira de Araujo

Authors:
 Isa Silveira de Araujo and Zoya Heidari, The University of Texas at Austin 

Speaker Bio: 
Isa Silveira de Araujo is a PhD student in the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. She received her B.S degree in Chemical Engineering from Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Brazil, and received her M.S degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Campinas, Brazil in 2019. In her Master thesis she extended the Statistical Associating Fluid Theory (SAFT- VR Mie) equation of state for the calculation of multicomponent adsorption isotherms. In summer 2014, she did a research internship at Texas A&M University and in 2017 she worked as a process engineering intern at Cenibra. Her research interests include petrophysics of unconventional reservoirs and molecular simulations.

 

Abstract: Chemical interactions between the injected fluids and the minerals during the fracturing process can affect fluid flow and production. However, there is still a need for understanding the impact of geochemistry on the interactions at the rock- fluids interface, and how these interactions affect wettability of the rock and the fluid flow in organic-rich mudrocks. In this paper, we quantify the mineral-fluid affinity by performing adsorption calculations. Molecular Dynamics Simulations (MDS) are carried out to (i) quantify adsorption of fracturing fluids on the surface of minerals, (ii) perform sensitivity analysis on the composition of fracturing fluid and reservoir temperature on adsorption, and (iii) analyze the spatial distribution of water and chemicals on mineral surfaces. The minerals evaluated include illite, and the fracturing fluid components are methanol, citric acid, sodium chloride and water. (click on link above to read full abstract)

There are two identical sessions: (CST)

Wednesday, March 15th  Morning Session: 8am – 9am US Central Time.
Wednesday, March 15th  Afternoon Session: 4p
m – 5pm US Central Time.

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