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    Relative Permeability. Wettability. Mobility Ratio. Sweep Efficiencies

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    This document discusses key reservoir engineering parameters for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) analysis, including relative permeability, wettability, mobility ratio, and sweep efficiencies. Relative permeability describes how easily fluids flow through rock and is important for understanding displacement processes like drainage and imbibition. Wettability influences how fluids are distributed in rock pores and can be measured via contact angle or relative permeability curves. Mobility ratio compares the flow abilities of fluids and is a factor in various EOR methods. Sweep efficiency, comprising displacement, vertical, and areal efficiencies, quantifies how much oil is produced from a reservoir volume.

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    This document discusses key reservoir engineering parameters for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) analysis, including relative permeability, wettability, mobility ratio, and sweep efficiencies. Relative permeability describes how easily fluids flow through rock and is important for understanding displacement processes like drainage and imbibition. Wettability influences how fluids are distributed in rock pores and can be measured via contact angle or relative permeability curves. Mobility ratio compares the flow abilities of fluids and is a factor in various EOR methods. Sweep efficiency, comprising displacement, vertical, and areal efficiencies, quantifies how much oil is produced from a reservoir volume.

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    This document discusses key reservoir engineering parameters for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) analysis, including relative permeability, wettability, mobility ratio, and sweep efficiencies. Relative permeability describes how easily fluids flow through rock and is important for understanding displacement processes like drainage and imbibition. Wettability influences how fluids are distributed in rock pores and can be measured via contact angle or relative permeability curves. Mobility ratio compares the flow abilities of fluids and is a factor in various EOR methods. Sweep efficiency, comprising displacement, vertical, and areal efficiencies, quantifies how much oil is produced from a reservoir volume.

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    This document discusses key reservoir engineering parameters for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) analysis, including relative permeability, wettability, mobility ratio, and sweep efficiencies. Relative permeability describes how easily fluids flow through rock and is important for understanding displacement processes like drainage and imbibition. Wettability influences how fluids are distributed in rock pores and can be measured via contact angle or relative permeability curves. Mobility ratio compares the flow abilities of fluids and is a factor in various EOR methods. Sweep efficiency, comprising displacement, vertical, and areal efficiencies, quantifies how much oil is produced from a reservoir volume.

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    Contents

    ❑ Introduction.
    ❑ Relative Permeability.
    ❑ Wettability.
    ❑ Mobility Ratio.
    ❑ Sweep Efficiencies.
    Introduction
    ❑ To understand the basic principles of EOR some reservoir
    engineering parameters have to be fully known.
    ❑ Mobility Ratio, Relative Permeability, Wettability and IFT are the
    most important reservoir engineering parameters.
    ❑ In addition to all the required data to do EOR analysis.
    Relative Permeability
    • The permeability of a rock is the
    description of the ease with which
    fluid can pass through the pore
    structure.
    kAP
    Q=
    L
    • Two types of permeability measured
    from the core Horizontal permeability
    and Vertical permeability.
    • Horizontal permeability in a reservoir
    is generally higher than vertical
    permeability.
    Effective Permeability:
    • Reflects the ability of a porous
    medium to permit the passage of a
    fluid under a potential gradient
    when two or three fluids are present
    in the pore space.
    Relative Permeability:
    • Relative permeability is the ratio of
    effective permeability to a specified
    kk ro A dP
    phase to the rock's absolute qo =
    permeability.  o dl
    • Provides an extension of Darcy’s Law kk rw A dP
    to the presence of more than a qw =
    single fluid within the pore space.  w dl
    Fill all the pore space with 100 %
    water (Sw=1)

    Displace water with oil (called


    Drainage process, where Sw & Krw
    decreases).

    Displace oil with water (called


    Imbibition process, where Sw & Krw
    increses).
    Drainage Process:
    • Taking water out, wetting phase
    is displaced by non-wetting
    phase (called migration process).

    Imbibition Process:
    • Taking oil out, non-wetting phase
    is displaced by wetting phase
    (called production process).

    Residual oil saturation


    Initial water saturation
    Intersection point
    Wettability

    • Wettability is defined as the


    tendency of one fluid to spread
    on or adhere to a solid surface in
    the presence of other immiscible
    fluids.
    • The wettability dependant on
    both rock and fluid properties.
    • The wettability of reservoir rocks
    to the fluids is important in that
    the distribution of the fluids in the
    porous media is a function of
    wettability.
    Wettability Measurements:
    • can be done in the laboratory from
    core analysis by using contact
    method which it depends on
    measuring the angle.
    Water Wet Oil Wet
    Wettability Measurements:
    • Relative permeability is also can be used to know the wettability
    depending on the intersection point (Sor Value).

    Low Sor High Sor

    Water Wet System Oil Wet System


    Mobility Ratio

    • Mobility is the ability of one fluid


    to flow faster (higher speed) than
    the other(s).
    • The flow of any fluid depends on
    both permeability and viscosity.
    • Mobility ratio for any fluid is the
    ratio between permeability and
    viscosity.
    Mobility Ratio

    • Mobility ratio is defined as the mobility of the displacing fluid


    divided by the mobility of displaced fluid.

    • Oil and water mobilities are the ratio between permabilities


    and viscosities.

    • Then mobility ratio can be written as:


    Mobility Ratio

    • Mobility ratio is used in EOR, in both thermal and miscible gas


    injection it deals with oil viscosity, and in chemical flooding it
    deals with water viscosity.

    • The objective is to reduce (control) the mobility ratio.


    Sweep Efficiencies
    RF= Displacement Efficiency (Ed) * Vertical Sweep Efficiency (Ev) * Areal Sweep Efficiency (Ea)

    Vertical Sweep Efficiency

    Areal Sweep Efficiency

    1 1
    Sor Initially: Total Oil = (1-Swi)
    Finally: Total Oil = (1-Swi-Sor) Displacement Efficiency

    Ed: Total Oil = (1-Swi)/(1-Swi-Sor)


    Swi
    0 0

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