Blar i Publikasjoner fra CRIStin på forfatter "Madland, Merete Vadla"
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An Analytical TOOLBOX for the Characterization of Chalks and Other Fine-Grained Rock Types within Enhanced Oil Recovery Research and Its Application—A Guideline
Zimmermann, Udo; Minde, Mona Wetrhus; Madland, Merete Vadla; Bredal, Tine Vigdel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-06)Analyses of fine-grained rocks like shales, cherts, and specifically chalk are challenging with regards to spatial resolution. We propose a “toolbox” to understand mineralogical alteration in chalk, especially those induced ... -
Effect of Initial Wettability on Rock Mechanics and Oil Recovery: Comparative Study on Outcrop Chalks
Sachdeva, Jaspreet Singh; Nermoen, Anders; Korsnes, Reidar Inge; Madland, Merete Vadla (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Brines containing surface-active divalent ions such as Ca2+, Mg2+ and SO42− impact the stiffness, strength and time-dependent deformation of water wet Mons outcrop chalk. This study documents how stiffness and strength of ... -
High-Resolution Topographic and Chemical Surface Imaging of Chalk for Oil Recovery Improvement Applications
Bredal, Tine Vigdel; Zimmermann, Udo; Madland, Merete Vadla; Minde, Mona Wetrhus; Ost, Alexander D.; Wirtz, Tom; Audinot, Jean-Nicolas; Korsnes, Reidar Inge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03)Chalk is a very fine-grained carbonate and can accommodate high porosity which is a key characteristic for high-quality hydrocarbon reservoirs. A standard procedure within Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) is seawater-injection ... -
Incorporating electrostatic effects into the effective stress relation — Insights from chalk experiments
Nermoen, Anders; Korsnes, Reidar Inge; Storm, Eirik V.; Stødle, Trond; Madland, Merete Vadla; Fabricius, Ida Lykke (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-01)Which forces are responsible for holding highly porous chalks together? We use the effective stress to quantify the electrostatic effects around particle contacts originating from the adsorption of ions onto charged mineral ... -
A laboratory scale approach to wettability restoration in chalk core samples
Sachdeva, Jaspreet Singh; Sripal, Edison A.; Nermoen, Anders; Korsnes, Reidar Inge; Madland, Merete Vadla; James, Lesley A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Wettability in chalk has been studied comprehensively to understand fluid flow mechanisms impacting coreflooding experiments. Wettability becomes paramount in understanding the parameters influencing chalk-fluid interactions. ... -
Mineral replacement in long-term flooded porous carbonate rocks
Minde, Mona Wetrhus; Zimmermann, Udo; Madland, Merete Vadla; Korsnes, Reidar Inge; Schultz, Bernhard; Gilbricht, Sabine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09)This study reports mineralogical and physical property changes linked to geo-chemical alterations processes during three ultra-long-term tri-axial tests on outcrop-chalk from Liège (Belgium). The test core plugs were flooded ... -
Mineralogical alterations in calcite powder flooded with MgCl2 to study Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) mechanisms at pore scale
Minde, Mona Wetrhus; Madland, Merete Vadla; Zimmermann, Udo; Egeland, Nina; Korsnes, Reidar Inge; Nakamura, Eizo; Kobayashi, Katsura; Ota, Tsutomu (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Seawater injection into chalk-reservoirs on the Norwegian Continental Shelf has increased the oil recovery and reduced seabed subsidence, but not eliminated it. Therefore, understanding rock–fluid interactions is paramount ... -
Mineralogy and geochemistry of reservoir and non-reservoir chalk from the Norwegian continental shelf
Kallesten, Emanuela Iedidia; Zimmermann, Udo; Madland, Merete Vadla; Bertolino, Silvana R.A.; Omdal, Edvard; Andersen, Pål Østebø (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)A first and detailed study of the geochemistry and mineralogy characterizing the North Sea reservoir and non-reservoir chalk is provided in this work. The study is based on 185 cores from exploration and development wells ... -
Permeability evolution of shear failing chalk cores under thermochemical influence
Kallesten, Emanuela Iedidia; Andersen, Pål Østebø; Madland, Merete Vadla; Korsnes, Reidar Inge; Omdal, Edvard; Zimmermann, Udo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-04)Development of petroleum reservoirs, including primary depletion of the pore pressure and repressurization during water injection naturally, leads to changes in effective stresses of the formations. These changes impose ... -
Validation study of water weakening research from outcrop chalks performed on Eldfisk reservoir cores
Kallesten, Emanuela Iedidia; Cherif, Yosra; Madland, Merete Vadla; Korsnes, Reidar Inge; Omdal, Edvard; Andersen, Pål Østebø; Zimmermann, Udo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-11)Seawater injection for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) purposes can increase the hydrocarbon recovery factor in carbonate reservoirs but are also responsible for weakening their mechanical strength. This study investigates the ... -
Validation study of water weakening research from outcrop chalks performed on Eldfisk reservoir cores
Kallesten, Emanuela Iedidia; Cherif, Yosra; Madland, Merete Vadla; Korsnes, Reidar Inge; Omdal, Edvard; Andersen, Pål Østebø; Zimmermann, Udo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-03)Seawater injection for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) purposes can increase the hydrocarbon recovery factor in carbonate reservoirs but are also responsible for weakening their mechanical strength. This study investigates the ... -
Water Weakening of Artificially Fractured Chalk, Fracture Modification and Mineral Precipitation during Water Injection—An Experimental Study
Bredal, Tine Vigdel; Korsnes, Reidar Inge; Zimmermann, Udo; Minde, Mona Wetrhus; Madland, Merete Vadla (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-05)This experiment was designed to study the water-weakening effect of artificially fractured chalk caused by the injection of different compositions of brines under reservoir conditions replicating giant hydrocarbon reservoirs ...