Water Washing: A Major Hydrocarbon Alteration Process. Part 2 – Processes, Controls and Hydrocarbon Type Prediction

Author(s):  
Lindsay G. Elliott*
2008 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
Lindsay Elliott

This paper presents the geochemistry portion of a larger study attempting to better predict hydrocarbon type prior to drilling. The geochemistry indicates that condensate-gas or gas-oil ratios have a predictable relationship with gasoline-range hydrocarbon solubility. The study shows that soluble gasoline-range aromatic compounds such as toluene are significantly depleted in oils compared with gases, whereas more insoluble compounds such as methylcyclohexane are enriched. The review indicates that water-washing in the reservoir is a major alteration process affecting hydrocarbon type and, in extreme cases, can convert a major gas accumulation into a smaller oil accumulation. Source type and maturity have a relationship with the volume of liquids produced, but are not the primary control on the hydrocarbon phase in the reservoir. The water-washing process will also affect carbon dioxide geosequestration projects, particularly where injection into abandoned low GOR oilfields is proposed.


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Calcined UTL-type germanosilicate was firstly reduced in a hydrogen atmosphere at an appropriate temperature. Then, air-calcination and water-washing procedures were performed to remove the Ge metal clusters or crystals originated from the reduction of skeleton germanium(iv) to yield pure zeolite phase of two daughter structures analogous to IPC-2 and IPC-6.


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