In a gas condensate reservoir, as the flowing bottom-hole pressure goes below the dew point pressure, liquid condensate would condense out of the dominant gaseous phase. This would cause a remarkable decrease in the gas relative permeability in the near wellbore region where most of the pressure drop would occur. A possible explanation of this decrease in gas relative permeability is that the heavy components in the liquid condensate get attracted to the pore surface and shift the wettability towards a more oil-wet state.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-02481-3_1/fulltext.html
https://pangea.stanford.edu/ERE/pdf/pereports/MS/Haider2015.pdf
https://www.slb.com/~/media/Files/resources/oilfield_review/ors07/.../p44_61.pdf
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Condensate can indeed be the wetting phase and therefore change flow behaviour drastically. Is this a carbonate or sandstone reservoir? Have you thought about a 3-phase rel perm problem you are running into of gas, water and condensate? Also, it is well known that condensate can block pore space, effectively reducing permeability for gas. If you screen the literature you will find some papers on case studies in Iran, the US and other places.
best, Andreas
I agree with Andreas.
Usually, carbonates tend to be more oil wet than sandstone. Usually, heavy oil wets more than light oil. Therefore, especially if the reservoir is not carbonate, it is difficult for a super-light liquid such as condensate to actually wet the pore walls.
To answer the question above, I do not consider realistic that the long term occupation of pore space by a condensate in the near wellbore region causes the rock matrix to become more oil/condensate-wet.
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