eprintid: 17813 rev_number: 2 eprint_status: archive userid: 1 dir: disk0/00/01/78/13 datestamp: 2023-12-19 03:24:07 lastmod: 2023-12-19 03:24:07 status_changed: 2023-12-19 03:08:43 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Almudhhi, S. creators_name: Alostath, M. creators_name: Al-Bazzaz, W. creators_name: Sharifigaliuk, H. creators_name: Qubian, A. title: An unconventional approach in investigating wettability contact angle measurement in shale resources ispublished: pub keywords: Angle measurement; Big data; Contact angle; Morphology; Pore structure; Silicate minerals; Wetting, 2d SEM image technology; Carbonate mineral wettability; Clay silicates; Clay/silicate mineral wettability; Image technology; Pores morphology; Pyrite (OM) mineral wettability; SEM image; Shale heterogeneous pore morphology system; Shale mineralogy classification; Silicate mineral wettability; Unconventional shale wettability, Pyrites note: cited By 5 abstract: Wettability measurement is important in production development to newly discovered as well as mature reservoirs. Evaluating the wettability is exceptionally important (for its significant-yields in hydrocarbon quantities) in oil and gas production schemes for newly discovered reservoirs such as shale reservoirs and other unconventional plays. Shale wettability has its unique fluid-mineral distribution relationships, which makes both pore morphology as well as mineral composition very significant factors controlling its wettability. The complex shale physical, chemical, and crystollgraphical constituent�s mineralogy as well as its physical pore morphology heterogeneity can complicate the wettability measurement further inside the pore structure fabrication, and hence the ultimate oil/gas recovery. The main objective of this study is to investigate the complexity of heterogeneous mineral structure of shale as well as its complex pore structure and its attributes toward the unconventional imaging method of wettability contact angle measurement. © 2021 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. date: 2022 publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd. official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85121349802&doi=10.1080%2f10916466.2021.2008969&partnerID=40&md5=76d61fef7385c0359c5f8e19877b89ae id_number: 10.1080/10916466.2021.2008969 full_text_status: none publication: Petroleum Science and Technology volume: 40 number: 8 pagerange: 893-936 refereed: TRUE issn: 10916466 citation: Almudhhi, S. and Alostath, M. and Al-Bazzaz, W. and Sharifigaliuk, H. and Qubian, A. (2022) An unconventional approach in investigating wettability contact angle measurement in shale resources. Petroleum Science and Technology, 40 (8). pp. 893-936. ISSN 10916466