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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 1994
Filed:
Feb. 09, 1993
Hooman Laali, Dallas, TX (US);
Ralph Navarro, Jr, Dallas, TX (US);
Mobil Oil Corporation, Fairfax, VA (US);
Abstract
A first fluid having a dyed styrene monomer is injected into a porous reservoir rock to effect saturation. A second fluid, miscible with the first fluid and having a dyed styrene monomer differing in color from the first fluid, is injected into the porous rock to displace the first fluid. Effluent flow from the porous rock is monitored with UV-visible light spectroscopy for use in determining oil displacement characteristics of the porous rock. Subsequent rapid polymerization of the styrene monomer within the porous rock allows identification and characterization of the controlling factors and attributes of the pore network responsible for entrapment of the residual phase. This allows assessment of larger intervals of the reservoir rock.