Abstract
Near-wellbore damage, which significantly reduces hydrocarbon production, can happen during drilling, cementing, perforation, completion, and stimulation operations. The most common technique to remove or bypass this damage is matrix acidizing. The effects of matrix acidizing injection pressure on acid penetration rate, chemical reaction rate, solubility, porosity, and permeability of Marcellus core samples were investigated in this experimental study. To achieve a successful acid treatment, acid type and concentration must be carefully selected. The results of the X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) and the solubility test revealed that 15 wt.% hydrochloric acid (HCl) is the optimum acid. Matrix acidizing treatments were implemented on nine core samples, taken from Marcellus (shale gas reservoir), at the reservoir temperature (66 °C), confining pressure of 10.35 MPa, and three different acid injection pressures (1.72, 3.45, and 5.17 MPa). The results showed that performing acid treatments on the samples containing continuous carbonate layers created highly permeable channels (wormholes) resulting in significant improvement, up to 3900%, in the permeability of the samples. Additionally, the results of the acid penetration rate, chemical reaction rate, solubility, porosity, and permeability revealed that increasing the acid injection pressure resulted in increases in the aforementioned properties of the samples. The results also revealed that any increase in the injection pressure above 3.45 MPa did not demonstrate any significant enhancements in the properties of the samples. The results of the XRD analysis revealed that matrix-acidizing treatments dissolved 23.2% of calcite and 0.4% of dolomite existed in the samples.
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Introduction
According to EIA (2015), the US oil and gas production from unconventional reservoirs, which have ultimate-low permeability (microdarcies to nanodarcies), has been tremendously improved since 2007. Even though horizontal drilling and multistage-hydraulic fracturing are necessary to produce with economical rates from such reservoirs (King 2011; Mohanty et al. 2019; Warpinski et al. 2009; Zoback and Kohli 2019), the oil and gas production rates significantly decrease by 90% in the first two to three years of production (Zoback and Kohli 2019). Despite implementing horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing, unconventional oil and gas recovery factors are still ultimate-low, 10% in oil reservoirs and 25% in gas reservoirs (Teklu et al. 2019; Zoback and Kohli 2019). Also, implementing hydraulic fracturing treatments requires a substantial amount of water, which puts additional stress on local water resources.
Pa Derrick, on October 10, 1895, reported the first acid treatment implemented on an oil well (Knox 1973), demonstrating that matrix acidizing is the oldest stimulation treatment (Tambini 2003), which is still used in the oil and gas industry. However, acid treatment had not been considered a commercial stimulation treatment until 1932, when an inhibitor was discovered that can effectively limit the equipment corrosion in the fields (Hendrickson et al. 1971).
Two types of acid stimulation treatment can enhance reservoirs permeability and production rates: matrix acidizing and acid fracturing. Matrix acidizing is to inject acid below a formation fracturing pressure. The objective of matrix acidizing is to improve or restore the near-wellbore permeability, a radius of 20–61 cm (8–24 inches) cn without fracturing the producible formations (King 1986), and this radius might be 5 ft in the carbonate reservoirs (Mcleod 1989). By removing the near-wellbore damage that reduces formation permeability, the production rate can be increased ten to hundreds of times (King 1986). Removing the near-wellbore damage results in significant improvement in the production rate, if the damage is close to the perforations (Nino-Penaloza and Gomaa 2016).
In undamaged formations, however, it is uncommon to increase the production rate by implementing matrix acidizing treatments. On the other hand, acid fracturing is injecting acid above a formation fracturing propagation pressure to create fractures. Unlike matrix acidizing, fracture acidizing can be successfully implemented in undamaged formations to create long fractures deep into the formation to bypass the formation damage. It is an alternative treatment for hydraulic fracturing in carbonate formations with low permeability and/or deep damage (Knox and Ripley 1979). To keep the fractures open, fracture faces must be etched in nonuniform shapes to create conductive flow channels.
Several acid types have been developed, but the most common ones are inorganic acids: hydrochloric acid (HCl) and hydrochloric/hydrofluoric acid (HCl/HF) (Coulter 2012; Coulter and Jennings Jr 1997). HCl is commonly used to increase permeability in carbonate or carbonate-rich shale formations (such as Marcellus shale and Eagle Ford shale). It chemically reacts with limestone (CaCO3) and the byproducts of the chemical reaction are water-soluble (Aldakkan et al. 2018): calcium chloride (CaCl2), carbon dioxide (CO2), and water (H2O) [Eq. (1)]. The byproducts of the chemical reaction between HCl and dolomite are CaCl2, magnesium chloride (MgCl2), CO2, and water [Eq. (2)].
HCl reacts with limestone faster than dolomite (Carpenter 2014; Patton et al. 2003). The acid reaction rate has a direct relationship with temperature. HCl reaction rate with limestone at a reservoir temperature of 60–66 °C is approximately double than at 27 °C (Coulter Jr et al. 1987; Kalfayan 2008).
On the other hand, hydrofluoric (HF) acid treatments we successfully implemented in Monterey shale formation, a quartz-rich shale formation (Trehan et al. 2012). Additionally, Rowe et al. (2004) successfully acidized 49 vertical and 19 horizontal shale wells, and as a result, the average oil production of the horizontal wells increased up to ninefold, while the average vertical well production increased by 110 barrels of oil per day (BOPD) and more than 500 thousand standard cubic feet per day (MSCF/D). The second acid type is organic acids (formic and acetic acids) that are considered weak acids (Chang et al. 2008). These acids are used in specific conditions including high-temperature formations, where HCl corrosion is high, and high iron chlorite formations. Acetic acid, for example, can be used to remove calcium carbonate scale (Mcleod 1989). In some cases, a mixture of inorganic and organic acids could be used to reduce the reaction rate, which increases the acid penetration depth.
Near-wellbore damage might occur during drilling, cementing, completion, perforation, and/or production operations (Harry and Mcleod 1984). The degree of success of a matrix acidizing treatment depends on the presence of the damage and its distance from the wellbore. There are three main types of formation damage, in which two of them are related to the formation rock (Coulter and Jennings 1999). Absolute permeability damage occurs when solid particles, such as drilling mud particles, occupy all or a portion of the pore spaces resulting in a reduction in the formation permeability. To eliminate this permeability reduction, the damage zone must be either removed or bypassed (Coulter and Jennings 1999). Reduction in the hydrocarbon relative permeability resulting from the presence of injection fluid(s), causes a reduction of the hydrocarbon production rate.
Matrix acidizing in carbonates or carbonate-rich shale formations helps remove near-wellbore damage and improve near-wellbore permeability by enlarging pore throats (Coulter and Jennings 1999). Matrix acidizing creates conductive flow channels (wormholes), which are substantially more permeable than the reservoir rock. Consequently, fluids can easily flow from the formation into the wellbore through these wormholes overcoming near-wellbore damage and low permeability zones. The results of the experimental study conducted by Khalil et al. (2017) demonstrated that performing matrix acidizing using 15% HCl on Eagle Ford (a carbonate-rich shale formation) core samples considerably enhances the permeability of the core samples (from nanodarcies to microdarcies).
Up to the present, several studies have investigated the efficacy of the matrix acidizing technique on shale reservoirs. Using a new placement technique, Trehan et al. (2012) implemented matrix acidizing on a Monterey shale well using hydrofluoric (HF) acid because the main mineral composition is quartz. The new method can be used to pump liquids as high as 11.7 barrels per minute (bbl/min) with a pumping time of 5.1 h.
Morsy et al. (2013) investigated the effects of hydrochloric acid (HCl) on porosity, spontaneous imbibition, and crack distribution in shale samples from Eagle Ford, Mancos, Barnett, and Marcellus shale formations. Various acid concentrations of 4, 15, and 20% were used in that study, and the results revealed that 4% HCl was the optimum one to enhance porosity and oil recovery without damaging the structures of the core samples. Also, they recommended that low concentration HCl can penetrate deeply in shale formation as part of the hydraulic fracturing process in addition to being used around the wellbore.
Tripathi and Pournik (2014) experimentally investigated the effect of matrix acidizing on four core samples (3.81 cm in diameter and 15.24 cm in length) from Eagle Ford shale formation. The average mineralogical compositions of the core samples were mainly: calcite (48.8%), siderite (18.1%), and dolomite (11.9%). They submerged the samples in 15% HCl for 24 h at atmospheric pressure and ambient temperature. The results revealed that the acid dissolved an average of 38% of the core samples leading to increasing the effective porosities of the core samples.
Khalil et al. (2017) studied the effect of matrix acidizing treatments on four oil-saturated Eagle Ford shale core samples with different lengths (1.27, 2.54, 3.81, and 5.08 cm). The results of the solubility test demonstrated that 15% HCl is the optimal acid concentration for matrix acidizing purposes. The results also revealed that implementing the acid treatments increased the fracture widths in addition to increasing the permeability of the core samples from 1.04 nanodarcies (nd) to an average of 2.1 microdarcies (µd). They stated that matrix acidizing enhanced gas flooding treatments. However, they noticed early breakthrough in gas flooding treatments after conducting matrix acidizing on the core samples.
Wu and Sharma (2017) evaluated the matrix acidizing on one preserved core from Bakken shale. The results of the XRD tests revealed that 24% of the core sample was calcite, while 27% was quartz. Approximately, 35% of the Bakken powder sample was dissolved by 50 mL of 3 wt.% HCl and 3 wt.% KCl. Also, the acid changed the microstructure, pore structure, and mechanical properties of the shale sample. Clay, quartz, and organic matters are structurally stable minerals in acidizing treatments. However, they can be dislodged in HCl if surrounding carbonates get dissolved. Acidizing formed macropores with a diameter of 120 µm (µm) which increased the fracture conductivity and reduced the hardiness of the shale fracture surface by 30–70%. As a result, the permeability and porosity increased which may enhance the hydrocarbon flow.
Teklu et al. (2019) investigated the effect of 1 and 3% HCl diluted in 10% KCl (potassium chloride) brine on porosity and permeability of 48 Canadian shale core samples from Otter Park (14 samples), Muskwa (23 samples), and Evie (11 samples) formations. The core samples were wrapped by tape, and the top and bottom sides of the core samples were in contact with 1 or 3% HCl acid (three times the rock mass) at room conditions for four days. The results revealed that HCl enhanced the porosity and permeability of the core samples.
Sheng et al. (2019) evaluated the effects of the acidizing treatments on two types of core samples from Longmaxi marine and Yanchang continental shale formations (China) using an acid mixture of 15% HCl and 3% KCl for 10 h. Carbonate contents of the core samples from Longmaxi and Yanchang were 27% and 26%, respectively, while the clay contents were 18% and 4%, respectively. Each core sample was immersed in 5 cm3 of the acid mixture for two hours, and they were dried at room temperature (26 °C) for 24 h without using any heat source. The results revealed that the acid dissolved carbonate minerals resulting in creating cracks and connecting the pore spaces. This phenomenon was observed in carbonates, anhydrite, and clay minerals, and as a result, the generated tensile stress and increased the porosities of the samples.
Using 0.5 to 15 wt.% HCl, Singh et al. (2019) stimulated calcite-rich Eagle Ford shale samples. They claimed that the conductivity of unpropped fractures of the shale core samples significantly increased by 4000% after conducting the acidizing treatments. They also mentioned that the increment of the shale conductivity increased when the acid concentration increased.
Wu et al. (2020b) experimentally examined the effects of acid treatments on the mechanical properties of shale samples (Barnett, Eagle Ford, Haynesville, and Utica). They observed that samples with high carbonate content have more etched surfaces, which is related to the distribution pattern of the carbonate content inside the samples. Due to the acid etching, the hardness of the shale samples decreased by 54.5% (200–400 MPa).
Wu et al. (2020a) conducted a simulation acid fracturing research to study the effects of acid fracturing on unpropped fractures in shale samples with different carbonate contents. The results revealed that acid fracturing treatments enhanced the rich-carbonate shale conductivity by creating channels due to the viscous fingering of carbonate vein.
Marcellus shale formation is a good candidate for matrix acidizing treatments owing to possessing high carbonate content. The results of XRD tests conducted by Gupta and Mishra (2017) and Piane et al. (2018) revealed that Marcellus core samples contain 75% and 80–90% calcite, respectively. Additionally, Crandall et al. (2018) CT-scanned Marcellus formation (Tippens 6HS Well) and claimed that Marcellus reservoir has several calcareous sections, calcite veins, and calcite clasts. They also demonstrated that the formation has more than 40% calcite in some sections. Hence, matrix acidizing can be a stimulation method in such reservoirs.
Economides et al. (2013) stated that the results of acidizing treatments in laboratory scales cannot be expected to predict the response in field scales, but it should be used in the field as a guideline. Also, they recommended more careful selections of optimal acid by conducting laboratory tests using core samples with different acid concentrations. Thus, the main objective of this research, as the first comprehensive research, is to experimentally investigate the effect of matrix acidizing injection pressure on acid penetration rate, chemical reaction rate, solubility, porosity, and permeability of carbonate-rich (Marcellus) shale core samples at the reservoir temperature (66 °C).
The samples were divided into three groups; each group had one sample containing continuous carbonate layers, while the other two had discontinuous carbonate layers. Using the results of the XRD and solubility test, 15 wt.% HCl was selected as the optimal acid in this research. After heating the samples to the reservoir temperature (66 °C) and applying the confining pressure of 10.35 MPa, the acid was injected into the samples at three different pressures of 1.72, 3.45, and 5.17 MPa. Finally, after drying the core samples, the solubility, porosity, and permeability of the core samples were measured to study the effects of the matrix-acidizing on the properties of the samples.
Materials and methodology
Nine Marcellus outcrop core samples (3.81 cm in diameter and 5.08 cm in length) cut parallel to the bedding were used in this study. Both end-faces of the core samples were polished to assure flat edges, and their dimensions were measured using a digital caliper.
NL3000 CereTom X-ray CT scanner was used to scan the core samples prior to and after implementing the matrix acidizing treatments. The CT scanner has a minimum recognizable slice volume of 0.1225 mm3 (1 mm slice thickness), a spatial resolution of 0.35*0.35 mm, and a relative density resolution of 0.3% Hu. The results of the CT-scan tests were used to identify any existing carbonate layer(s) and fracture(s) in the core samples.
The conventional method of measuring the porosity of core samples involves a low injection pressure (0.7 MPa) that may introduce errors in the porosity results of the unconventional core samples. Khalil et al. (2019), however, investigated the optimum injection pressure to measure the porosity of unconventional core samples. They used four different injection pressures (0.69, 1.38, 2.07, and 2.76 MPa) to measure the porosity of unconventional core samples using helium. The results revealed that the optimum injection pressure to measure the porosity of the shale core samples is 1.38 MPa and any increase in the pressure beyond that value did not significantly affect the results but might crack the samples. Hence, all the porosity measurements were conducted using helium at 1.38 MPa.
Permeabilities of the core samples were measured using complex transient method and AutoLab 1500 triaxial cell, capable of measuring permeability as low as five nanodarcies (nd). After applying a confining pressure of 5.17 MPa, helium was injected at 1.73 MPa from the upstream side until the downstream pressure transducer reads the same pressure, which may take up to 48 h depending on the sample permeability. Because of the ultralow permeability of the core samples (nanodarcies), it took up to eight weeks for the core samples to reach the pressure equilibrium at the reservoir conditions of 66 °C and 29.2 MPa confining pressure. Hence, confining pressure and pore pressure of 5.17 MPa and 1.73 MPa, respectively, were applied at ambient temperature (22 °C) to conduct the permeability tests.
Since the acid treatment resulted in creating wormholes inside the core samples, which substantially increase their permeability, the complex transient method could not be used to calculate the permeability of the samples after implementing the acid treatment. Hence, Darcy’s law was used to measure the permeability of the core samples.
Since the rock mineralogy dictates the type of acid used in an acid treatment operation, XRD tests were conducted on the core samples to determine their mineralogical compositions. Figure 1 demonstrates that the core samples are composed of 69.8% calcite, 28.5% quartz, 1.2% dolomite, and 0.5% pyrite. Since the core samples were mainly composed of calcite, HCl was chosen as the appropriate acid type in this study.
To determine the optimal acid concentration, solubility tests must be conducted on the core samples. HCl acid with different concentrations (5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, and 25%) was added to five ground core samples (27 g each). The samples were left for 24 h (until there was no indication of acid reaction with the samples). Then, the samples were dried using a vacuum oven (at 66 °C for 24 h.) and weighed. Finally, the solubility is calculated using Eq. (3):
Figure 2 illustrates that higher acid concentration leads to higher solubility since the higher concentration acid dissolved more of the crushed samples. The results also indicated that any increase in the acid concentration above 15% does not significantly improve the solubility of the sample. An increase in acid concentration from 15 to 25% resulted in an increase of only 2% in the solubility. Furthermore, most of the available inhibitors lose their effectiveness when HCl concentration exceeds 17%. Hence, 15% HCl was selected as the optimal acid concentration in this study.
The core samples were divided into three groups based on their density, porosity, and permeability to study the effect of the acid injection pressure on their porosity, permeability, solubility, chemical reaction rate, and acid penetration rate. Table 1 shows that each group had one core sample containing continuous calcite layers and two core samples containing discontinuous calcite layers. Figure 3 illustrates that the setup consisted of a syringe pump to apply confining pressure, a core holder, a heating tape to heat the core samples, a Quizix pump to inject the fluids, an accumulator to contain HCl, two pressure gauges to measure the confining and the injection pressures. Each core sample was placed inside the core holder, and confining pressure of 10.34 MPa was then applied. The core holder was heated up to the reservoir temperature of 66 °C (150°F) afterward. According to the heat transfer calculations, it took three hours and seventeen minutes for the whole setup to reach the temperature of 66 °C from the room temperature of 22 °C (71°F): 26 min for the stainless-steel core holder, 160 min for the confining water between the core holder and the rubber sleeve, 3 min for the rubber sleeve, and 8 min for the core sample. However, to assure that the whole system reached the temperature equilibrium, the core holder was left at 66 °C for 12 h. Then, the acid was injected into each group of the samples at pressures of 1.72, 3.45, and 5.17 MPa. Due to safety concerns, the acid was injected into the core sample either until the breakthrough is observed or for four hours. Moreover, HCl strongly reacts with carbonate as shown in Eq. (1) and (2), and as a result, carbonate layers are dissolved in the solution. The rate of this reaction, which depends on the dissolved mass and the duration of the reaction, is calculated using Eq. (4).
Results and discussion
Figure 4 demonstrates that the HCl breakthrough was only observed on the core samples having continuous carbonate layers, which left highly conductive channels (wormholes). Additionally, Fig. 5 shows that the acid penetration rate has a proportional relationship with the acid injection pressure due to the increase in the reaction rate of the acid and the calcite layers. The penetration rate was 4.86, 6.43, and 6.86 10-4 cm/s at injection pressures of 1.72, 3.45, and 5.17 MPa, respectively. On the other hand, Fig. 6 does not show continuous wormholes since the breakthrough was not observed in the core samples possessing discontinuous carbonate layers. Due to the density difference among the minerals in the core samples, Figs. 7a and 8a demonstrate that calcite beddings can be easily identified using the results of the CT-scan tests, in which brighter colors represent higher densities. After completing the matrix acidizing treatments, Fig. 7b demonstrates that calcite layers have been dissolved in the acid leaving a wormhole as wide as the calcite layer. Figure 7c shows that the uneven shape of the wormhole edges will keep the flow path open without using proppants. On the other hand, Fig. 8 shows that the acid could not create any continuous wormhole in the samples that did not possess any continuous layer(s).
Increasing the acid injection pressure caused the acid to penetrate deeper into the core samples which increased the stimulated volume, and as a result, increased the reaction rate, solubility, porosity, and permeability of the core samples. Figure 9 illustrates that the chemical reaction rate of the core samples at HCl injection pressure of 1.72, 3.45, and 5.17 MPa was 0.112, 0.158, and 0.161 g/min, respectively. This chemical reaction dissolved up to 21% of the calcite of the core samples which produced byproducts of calcium chloride (dissolvable salt in water), water, and carbon dioxide. Figure 10 shows that the solubility of the core samples was 17%, 20%, and 21% when the acid was injected at 1.72, 3.45, and 5.17 MPa, respectively, and as a result, the effective porosity of the core samples was increased by 9%, 12, and 13%, respectively (Table 2 and Fig. 11). Additionally, injecting the acid into the core samples possessing continuous layers of calcite resulted in dissolving the calcite layer(s) and halving the samples, which made the permeability measurement impossible. However, the permeability of one core sample (M5), out of three acidized core samples that had continuous calcite layers, was successfully measured using the Klinkenberg effect method. Figure 12 shows that the absolute permeability of the core sample M5 after the matrix acidizing is 2.32 darcies, while it was 59 nanodarcies before the acidizing. The significant increase in the permeability of the samples resulted from forming the wormhole after implementing the acid treatment. Table 2 and Fig. 13 demonstrate that the matrix acidizing treatments significantly increased the permeability of the core samples containing discontinuous calcite layers as well and increasing the acid injection pressure increased the permeability of the core samples owing to dissolving calcite present in the samples. Figure 13 shows that the permeability of the core samples, having discontinuous carbonate layers, after acidizing is 313, 361, and 374 millidarcy when the acid was injected at 1.72, 3.45, and 5.17 MPa, respectively. It is worth noting that the results of the acid penetration rate, chemical reaction rate, solubility, porosity, and permeability of the core samples did not reveal significant enhancements above the acid injection pressure of 3.45 MPa. It is most likely because the acid did not significantly penetrate deeper into the core samples due to the low permeability of the core samples.
The results of the XRD test before implementing the matrix acid treatments revealed that 69.8% of the core samples is calcite, 28.5% is quartz, 1.2% is dolomite, and 0.5% is pyrite. After implementing the matrix acidizing treatment, the mineralogical compositions were altered owing to the carbonate dissolution in the acid. Figure 14 shows that after completing the treatments the core samples are composed of 54.9% calcite, 42.7% quartz, 0.8% dolomite, and 0.5% pyrite. The results also demonstrated that 32.21% of the calcite and 0.4% of the dolomite have been dissolved leaving 23.61% extra pore spaces inside the core samples resulting in porosity and permeability enhancements.
Conclusions
The efficacy of the matrix acidizing treatments on shale core samples at the confining pressure of 10.34 MPa and reservoir temperature (66 °C) was investigated in this research study. The concept behind the shale matrix acidizing is to create high conductive channels (wormholes) when HCl acid dissolves calcite layers in carbonate-rich formations such as Marcellus and Eagle Ford, USA. These wormholes will stimulate near-wellbore and fracture-face zones, and as a result, increase hydrocarbon production. The results of the XRD and solubility tests demonstrated that 15% HCl is the optimum acid type and concentration for Marcellus core samples. The results revealed that injecting 15% HCl into Marcellus shale samples increases their porosities and permeability. However, permeability enhancement is substantially more significant in the samples containing continuous calcite layers(s) owing to high permeability wormholes (2.3 darcy) resulting from HCl breakthrough than the samples containing discontinuous carbonate layer(s). The results also revealed that matrix acidizing increased the porosity of the core samples, possessing discontinued calcite layers, by up to 13% and enhanced the average permeability of the samples from 41 nanodarcies to 349 millidarcy. Furthermore, the results showed that increasing the acid injection pressure resulted in increases in porosity, permeability, solubility, reaction rate, and acid penetration rate of the samples. Additionally, the results demonstrated that increasing the injection pressure above 3.45 MPa does not significantly improve the porosity and permeability of the samples.
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The authors would like to thank Elena Melchert (Director of the Upstream Oil and Gas Research Division of the U.S. Department of Energy), Dr. Dustin Crandall (a Research Engineer at the National Energy Technology Laboratory), and Robert Vagnetti of the National Energy Technology Laboratory for providing the core samples.
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Khalil, R., Emadi, H. & Altawati, F. Investigating the effect of matrix acidizing injection pressure on carbonate-rich Marcellus shale core samples: an experimental study. J Petrol Explor Prod Technol 11, 725–734 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13202-020-01047-4
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