Wettability alteration
Screen wettability-modifier candidates against quartz, kaolinite, and clay — before a contact-angle test.
Different reservoirs mean different mineral surfaces. A chemistry that alters wettability on one won't necessarily work on another.
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Business impact
Avoid committing a core-flood slot to the wrong mineral match.
A wettability-modifier that works on one reservoir's mineralogy can underperform on another — and a core-flood test that discovers this the hard way has already spent core material and lab-schedule time that don't come back. Screening against your reservoir's actual named mineral surfaces first keeps that discovery on a screen, not in the queue.
- Core material and lab-schedule slots protected for candidates worth testing
- Reservoir-specific mineral mismatch caught before, not during, a core-flood run
- A shortlist that already accounts for your actual formation mineralogy
How we get you there
Contact angle and wettability, parameterized per mineral surface
Wettability response is simulated against named mineral surfaces — quartz, kaolinite, and clay-family chemistries — not a generic idealized rock.
Contact angle & wettability
Parameterized per named mineral surface — quartz, kaolinite, clay — cross-checked against published reference literature.
Molecular-scale simulation (nanometer length, nanosecond-to-microsecond timescale) — a mechanism-plausibility read, not a field-scale reservoir recovery-factor prediction.
In the published literature
A published contact-angle study on kaolinite clay film found wettability response varies with both salinity and pH — sodium-dominated brine produced minimal change, while calcium-containing brine produced a substantial shift toward more water-wet behavior (decreased oil sorption) across the pH 6.5–8 range. The same mineral surface behaves differently depending on the specific water chemistry it meets — the reason a per-mineral, per-brine screen matters.
Where this fits
Pre-lab triage, ahead of a core-flood commitment
This screens candidates against the mineral chemistry your reservoir actually has, before a physical contact-angle or core-flood test confirms it — narrowing what goes into the lab queue, not replacing what happens there.
Scope your candidates before you commit them to a core-flood test.
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