Table 4 The petrophysical properties of the tested plugs and flooding conditions.

From: Enhanced oil recovery from sandstone reservoir using cationic hyperbranched polyamidoamine dendrimer surfactant flooding under real reservoir conditions

Parameters

Value

Plugs properties at reservoir conditions

 Plug ID

A

B

C

 Length, cm

4.334

4.538

4.735

 Diameter, cm

3.827

3.824

3.828

 Area, cm2

11.50

11.48

11.51

 Bulk volume (B.V.), cc

49.85

52.12

53.49

 Pore volume (P.V.), cc

10.63

11.2

10.78

 Grain volume (G.V.), cc

39.22

40.92

42.72

 Porosity (%)

21.3

21.5

20.14

 Volume of oil injected, cc

5.55

6.7

6.5

 Swi, cc

5.08

4.50

4.28

 Sor, cc

2.3

2.85

2.75

 Initial water saturation (Swi), % P.V.

47.79

40.18

39.70

 Initial oil saturation (Soi), % P.V.

52.21

59.82

60.30

 Residual oil saturation (Sor), % P.V.

21.63

25.44

25.51

 Residual oil saturation (Sor), % OOIP

41.44

42.53

42.31

Flooding conditions

 Flooding temperature, °C

70

 Confining pressure, psi

4000

 Brine salinity, ppm

100,000