Experimental Studies of Changes in the Filtration and Capacity Properties of the Astrakhan Field Carbonate Reservoirs under Acid Exposure

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  • Oil and Gas Research Institute of the Russian Academy Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation; Gazprom VNIIGAZ LLC, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Perm, Russian Federation
  • Oil and Gas Research Institute of the Russian Academy Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, China
  • Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Perm, Russian Federation

Abstract

One of the most frequently used methods of increasing oil and gas recovery of carbonate reservoirs is the treatment of wells with hydrochloric acid reagent. The acid solution interacts with the mineral skeleton of the rock, resulting in the formation of a network of wormhole channels, which significantly increases the permeability of the near-wellbore zone. In this regard, it is necessary to develop scientific and methodological foundations for predicting changes in the natural properties of the reservoir during acid treatments. In this article, we use core samples from the Bashkir deposits of the Astrakhan gas condensate field to demonstrate the methodology for conducting laboratory experiments to study the transformation of porosity, permeability, and bulk density in reservoir rocks. A special feature of the developed method is the injection of an acid solution even after the reagent breaks through from the opposite end of the sample. The results of experiments conducted using the developed method are presented. Typical graphs of injection of and the dynamics of pressure drop and permeability are shown, which have a characteristic before and after exposure to the acid reagent the breakthrough of the acid. The dependencies that link the values of the studied characteristics before and after exposure to the acid reagent are identified. It is noted that these dependencies have a relatively high correlation coefficient. It has been shown that after the appearance of wormhole channels, the permeability of the core images increases by several thousand times. Statistical dependencies of porosity-permeability before and after exposure to hydrochloric acid have been constructed, and it has been shown that after exposure to the reagent, the graph has much higher than the initial graph. The relationship between bulk density and porosity has a high correlation coefficient, both before and after exposure to an acid solution, and both graphs follow a single trend, with the difference that after acid filtration, the values shift downward and to the right, indicating an increase in porosity and a decrease in rock density. The relationships between the studied characteristics and the amount of acid reagent a percentage of the natural properties of a carbonate reservoir in the near-wellbore zone and for further numerical modeling.

Keywords

hydrochloric acidreagentacid solutionnear-wellbore zoneporositypermeabilitybulk densityinjection dynamicswormhole channelsnumber of pore volumes

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24 October 2025
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24 October 2025
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Vol. 25, No. 3 (2025)
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