Browsing by Author "Vinegar, Harold J."

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    Determination of fluid-phase-specific petrophysical properties of geological core for oil, water and gas phases
    (2024-03-05) Vinegar, Eva; Singer, Philip M.; Hirasaki, George J.; Chen, Zeliang; Wang, Xinglin; Vinegar, Harold J.; Rice University; Vinegar Technologies LLC; United States Patent and Trademark Office
    The following invention is used for determining the relative permeability of a fluid in a rock for three different phases: water, oil, and gas, in both conventional and unconventional formations. The permeability of a phase describes how much it can flow in porous media given a pressure gradient and is useful in evaluating reservoir quality and productivity. The following invention is a method to determine the three-phase relative permeabilities in both conventional and unconventional formations using NMR restricted diffusion measurements on core with NMR-active nuclei, combined with centrifugation of the core. In addition, the tortuosity, pore size (surface-to-volume ratio), fluid-filled porosity, and permeability is determined for each of the three phases in a rock.
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    Method for determining the composition of natural gas liquids, mean pore-size and tortuosity in a subsurface formation using NMR
    (2021-08-24) Vinegar, Harold J.; Singer, Philip M.; Hirasaki, George J.; Chen, Zeliang; Wang, Xinglin; Rice University; Vinegar Technologies LLC; United States Patent and Trademark Office
    New methods for determining the volumetric composition and saturation of methane and NGLs (natural gas liquids: ethane, propane, butane, and pentane) in a petroleum reservoir combining NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) logging and NMR core analysis and for determining the mean pore-size and tortuosity of the light hydrocarbon-filled porosity in a petroleum reservoir using NMR core analysis.
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    Method of estimating permeability using NMR diffusion measurements
    (2024-03-19) Vinegar, Harold J.; Singer, Philip M.; Hirasaki, George J.; Chen, Zeliang; Wang, Xinglin; Vinegar, Eva; Rice University; Vinegar Technologies LLC; United States Patent and Trademark Office
    This invention is useful for determining the permeability of a geological formation using 1H NMR diffusion measurements acquired in the laboratory and using downhole 1H NMR well logging. The current technology for obtaining formation permeability downhole using NMR is not adequate for low-permeability, unconventional source rock formations with high organic content. This new method uses laboratory 1H NMR diffusion measurements for creating continuous downhole well logs of the mobile-hydrocarbon permeability of the hydrocarbon-filled pore space of downhole geological formations.