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15 - General Engineering

Heriot-Watt University (joint submission with University of Edinburgh)

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Article title

Environmental-Scanning-Electron-Microscope investigation into the effect of biofilm on the wettability of quartz

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

10.2118/114421-PA

Title of journal

SPE Journal

Article number

Volume number

Issue number

First page of article

223

ISSN of journal

1086-055X

Year of publication

2010

URL

Number of additional authors

Additional information

This paper presents the novel application of the unique features of an environmental scanning microscope (ESEM) to evaluate the wettability of surfaces to water, important in oil recovery predictions. The current practise of evaluating recovered reservoir rock properties ignores the impact of possible microbial contamination on rock fluid transport properties. This paper presents novel wettability results, using the ESEM, of the microbial contamination of quartz, where wettability changed from hydrophilic to hydrophobic. This significant result has been acknowledged by the international rock wettability research community exemplified by Armstrong’s recent microbial enhanced oil recovery paper (DOI:10.1007/s11242-011-9934-3).

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

C - Energy & Resource Management

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

English abstract