Effect of waterwashing on light ends compositional heterogeneity

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1141-1150

  Lafargue, E ^a   Le Thiez, P ^a  

^a IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

Author keywords

Compositional heterogeneity; Oil water interactions; Reservoir geochemistry; Waterwashing

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; COMPOSITION; CRUDE PETROLEUM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAFFINS; WASHING; WATER;

COMPOSITIONAL HETEROGENEITY; OIL WATER INTERACTIONS; WATERWASHING;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

GEOCHEMISTRY; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROCARBON/WATER INTERACTION; WATERWASHING;

EID: 0030428330     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(96)00095-2     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Ducreux J., Bocard C., Muntzer P., Razakarisoa O. and Zilliox L. (1990) Mobility of soluble and non-soluble hydrocarbons in contaminated aquifer. Wat. Sci. Technol. 22, 27-36.
2. Durand J. P. (1993), Automatic capillary gas chromatography: a powerful tool for petroleum products characterization. In 15th Symposium on Capillary Chromatography, Italy (Edited by Sandra P. and Devos G.), pp. 1393-1403. Huethig, Heidelberg.
3. Hwang R. J., Ahmed A. S. and Moldowan J. M. (1994) Oil composition variation and reservoir continuity. Unity field, Sudan. Org. Geochem. 21, 171-188.
4. Kaufman R. L., Ahmed A. S. and Hempkins W. B. (1987) A new technique for the analysis of commingled oils and its application to production allocation calculations. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Convention of the Indonesia Petroleum Association, Jakarta, pp. 247-268.
5. Kaufman R. L., Ahmed A. S. and Elsinger R. J. (1990) Gas chromatography as a development and production tool for fingerprinting oils from individual reservoirs: applications in the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf Coast Section Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Fundation 9th Annual Research Conference, New Orleans.
6. Kuo L.-C. (1994) An experimental study of crude oil alteration in reservoir rocks by water washing. Org. Geochem. 21, 465-479.
7. Lafargue E. and Barker C. (1988) Effect of water washing on crude oil compositions. AAPG Bull. 72, 263-276.
8. Larter S. R. and Aplin A. C. (1994) Reservoir geochemistry: methods, applications and opportunities. In Reservoir Geochemistry, Geological Society Special Publication 86 (Edited by England W. A. and Cubitt J.), pp. 5-32.
9. Le Thiez P. and Ducreux J. (1994) A 3-D numerical model for analysing hydrocarbon migration into soils and aquifers. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Morgantown, May 22-23 (Edited by Siriwarden H. J. and Zaman M. M.), pp. 1165-1170. Balkema, Rotterdam.
10. Mackay D. M., Freyberg D. L., Roberts P. V. and Cherry J. A. (1986) A natural gradient experiment on solute transport in a sand aquifer. 1. Approach and overview of results. Water Resour. Res. 22, 2017-2029.
11. Mangold D. C. and Tsang C. F. (1991) A summary of subsurface hydrological and hydrochemical models. Rev. Geophys. 29, 51-79.
12. Milner C. W. D., Rogers M. A. and Evans C. R. (1977) Petroleum transformations in reservoirs. J. Geochem. Explor. 7, 101-153.
13. Nederlof P., Gijsen M. A. and Doyle M. A. (1995) Application of reservoir geochemistry to field appraisal. In Proceedings of "GEO 94", The Middle East Petroleum Geoscience Conference, April 25-27, Bahrain (Edited by Al Husseini M. I.), pp. 709-722. Gulf Petrolink, Manama.
14. Odermatt J. R. (1994) Natural Chromatographic separation of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylenes (BTEX compounds) in a gasoline contaminated ground water aquifer. Org. Geochem. 21, 1141-1150.
15. 15+ hydrocarbon fraction of crude oils from Northwest Pallawan, Philippines. AAPG Bull. 68, 137-149.
16. Piver W. T. and Lindstrom F. T. (1991) Mathematical models for describing transport in the unsaturated zone of soils. In The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry (Edited by Hutzinger O.), Vol. 5 Part A, Water Pollution, pp. 125-259. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
17. Powers S. E., Loureiro C. O., Abriola L. M. and Weber W. J. (1991) Theoretical study of the significance of nonequilibrium dissolution of nonaqueous phase liquids in subsurface systems. Wat. Res. Res. 27, 463-477.
18. Reid R. C., Prausnitz J. M. and Polling B. E. (1987) The Properties of Gas and Liquids, 4th edn. McGraw-Hill, New York.
19. Shiu W. Y., Bobra M., Bobra A. M., Maijanen A., Suntio L. and Mackay D. (1990) The water solubility of crude oils and petroleum products. Oil Chem. Pollut. 7, 57-84.
20. Southworth G. R., Herbes S. E. and Allen C. P. (1983) Evaluating a mass transfer model for the dissolution of organics from oil films into water. Wat. Res. 17, 1647-1651.
21. Thompson K. F. M. (1987) Fractionated aromatic petroleums and the generation of gas-condensates. Org. Geochem. 11, 573-590.
22. Thompson K. F. M. (1988) Gas-condensate migration and oil fractionation in deltaic systems. Mar. Pet. Geol. 5, 237-246.