The U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM), developed by Donaldson et al. in 1969, is a method to measure wettability of petroleum reservoir rocks. In this method, the areas under the forced displacement Capillary pressure curves of oil and water drive processes are denoted as and to calculate the USBM index.[1][2]
USBM index is positive for water-wet rocks, and negative for oil-wet systems.
Bounded USBM (or USBM*)
editThe USBM index is theoretically unbounded and can vary from negative infinity to positive infinity. Since other wettability indices such as Amott-Harvey, Lak wettability index and modified Lak are bounded in the range of -1 to 1, Abouzar Mirzaei-Paiaman highlighted the bounded form of USBM (called USBM*) as a replacement of the traditional USBM as [3]
USBM* varies from -1 to 1 for strongly oil-wet and strongly water-wet rocks, respectively.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Donaldson, E.C.; Thomas, R.D.; Lorenz, P.B. (1969). "Wettability determination and its effect on recovery efficiency". SPE Journal. 9 (1): 13–20.
- ^ Sharma, M.M.; Wunderlich, R.W. (1987). "The alteration of rock properties due to interactions with drilling fluid components". J. Petrol. Sci. Technol. 1: 127–143.
- ^ Mirzaei-Paiaman, A. (2022). "Analysis of the bounded and unbounded forms of USBM wettability index". Energy Geoscience. 3 (1): 94–102. doi:10.1016/j.engeos.2021.12.001. S2CID 245108452.
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