Schlumberger Technology Corporation

Saudi Aramco

Saudi Arabian Oil Company

Services Petroliers Schlumberger

Schlumberger Holdings Limited

Ahmed Al-Muthana

Shouxiang Mark Ma

Henry N Bachman

Philip M Singer

Andrea Valori

Gabor Hursan

Benjamin Nicot

Farhan Ali

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 (T). 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.

Methods for determining wettability from NMR

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Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Ahmed Al-Muthana