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Volume 47, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0812-3985
  • E-ISSN: 1834-7533

Abstract

In a laboratory fluid-injection experiment, seismic velocity and electrical resistivity were measured simultaneously to monitor injected carbon dioxide (CO) during CO drainage and imbibition within a heterogeneous, clay-containing Tako sandstone sample. In the CO drainage process, supercritical CO (10 MPa at 40°C) was injected under a condition similar to that of an reservoir. After the CO drainage process, water was injected into the CO-injected sandstone for the CO imbibition stage. Employing strategies based on Gassmann fluid-substitution and Archie’s equation, P-wave velocities and electrical resistivities were interpreted to evaluate CO saturation (). Estimated values of during the CO drainage process were compared with those of volume-derived , which were obtained by evaluating the volumes of injected and drained fluid. When Tako sandstone is < 0.1, estimation from P-wave velocity based on the Gassmann-Brie equation (with  = 12) is more precise than resistivity index (RI)-based Archie’s equation estimations from electrical resistivity. For further analysis, a modified RI equation was also employed to estimate , and the results were compared with those of the original RI-based Archie strategy.

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