TY - CONF A1 - Aidagulov, Gallyam A1 - Qiu, Xiangdong A1 - Brady, Dominic A1 - Abbad, Mustapha A1 - Onel, Yener A1 - Ewert, Uwe T1 - New insights into carbonate matrix stimulation from high-resolution 3D images of wormholes obtained in radial acidizing experiments N2 - We analyzed the results of high-energy X-ray CT scans for three 20×16×16 in. block samples of Indiana limestone from our recent radial acidizing experiments with HCl. CT scans were done for complete samples, and 3D images of internal dissolution patterns were built. Each 3D image consists of submillimeter-size voxels to capture fine details of individual wormholes. The obtained 3D images of acidized blocks allow us to observe from various angles the details of the wormholes obtained in the three experiments, which demonstrated wide pore-volume-to-breakthrough (PVBT) range with three different injection rates. Also, variation of the CT number reveals the presence of depositional layers in all block samples, and the obtained CT images were used to interpret the effect that rock layers might have on wormhole penetration at different injection rates. Further, the built voxel models were used to calculate the radial distributions of dissolved rock volume, which otherwise are not obvious for such complex branched structures as wormholes. We observed how varied experimental conditions affected those distributions. The radial distributions were found very similar across the samples, which suggested the way to detect the effective wormhole penetration depth. T2 - SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition CY - Dammam, Saudi Arabia DA - 23.04.2018 KW - Carbonate matrix stimulation KW - High-energy X-ray CT KW - XL-CT KW - Analysis of wormholes PY - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.2118/192366-MS SP - SPE-192366-MS, 1 EP - 19 AN - OPUS4-46654 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -