Author(s)

Ayorinde Janet Olaide^1*, Ehinola Olugbenga², Durogbitan Abimbola³

¹Department of Geology and Mineral Science, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria.
²Department of Geology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
³Amni International Petroleum Development Co. Ltd., London, UK.

In the petroleum industry, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) technology has been applied to numerous applications in the laboratory and for wireline logging, which provides vital information about the petrophysical properties of the reservoirs. The primary purpose of this paper is to evaluate the various applications of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance technology presently used in conventional and unconventional reservoir systems for formation evaluation purposes in the petroleum industry. Additionally, to better comprehend the type of analysis and information that could be derived from the NMR measurement, a detailed literature review was conducted on the history, theory, and principles of nuclear magnetic resonance. This paper also discussed some standard methods in which NMR technology has been used in the oil and gas industry to estimate reservoir properties such as porosity, permeability, wettability, irreducible water saturation, and irreducible oil saturation. Likewise, it reveals that the borehole and laboratory applications of the NMR measurement have been utilized in both conventional and unconventional reservoir systems to quantify critical parameters like pore size distribution, porosity, and permeability. The application of NMR measurement also gives a better understanding of the interaction between fluids in the reservoirs and the rock properties. This review establishes that the exploration and production of oil in the industry have benefited from NMR technology by effectively enhancing the evaluation of formation and fluid properties in the reservoir.

Petroleum, Numerous Applications

Olaide, A. , Olugbenga, E. and Abimbola, D. (2020) A Review of the Application of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Petroleum Industry. International Journal of Geosciences, 11, 145-169. doi: 10.4236/ijg.2020.114009.