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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 1991
Filed:
Jan. 16, 1991
Eve S Sprunt, Farmers Branch, TX (US);
Samuel H Collins, DeSoto, TX (US);
Mobil Oil Corporation, Fairfax, VA (US);
Abstract
A core sample of a porous rock having a wettability representative of a subterranean formation is saturated with a first medium. This first medium is then displaced with an immiscible second medium. Capillary pressure versus wetting phase saturation is measured during the displacement of the first medium with the second medium within the core sample. Mercury is injected into an evacuated core sample of the porous rock, mercury vapor acting as a wetting phase on the porous rock. Capillary pressure versus wetting phase saturation is measured during mercury injection on the evacuated core sample. The ratio of the two capillary pressure versus wetting phase saturation measurements is determined and taken to be an indicator of the wettability of different size pore throats in the porous rock.