Two-phase relative permeability prediction from capillary pressure data for one Iraqi oil field: A comparative study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Izzat Niazi Sulaiman ◽  
Yahya Jirjees Tawfeeq
2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Ma ◽  
Changwei Liu ◽  
Changhui Cheng

Relative permeability as an important petrophysical parameter is often measured directly in the laboratory or obtained indirectly from the capillary pressure data. However, the literature on relationship between relative permeability and resistivity is lacking. To this end, a new model of inferring two-phase relative permeability from resistivity index data was derived on the basis of Poiseuille's law and Darcy's law. The wetting phase tortuosity ratio was included in the proposed model. The relative permeabilities computed from the capillary pressure data, as well as the experimental data measured in gas–water and oil–water flow condition, were compared with the proposed model. Both results demonstrated that the two-phase permeability obtained by proposed model were generally in good agreement with the data computed from capillary pressure and measured in the laboratory. The comparison also showed that our model was much better than Li model at matching the relative permeability data.


SPE Journal ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (04) ◽  
pp. 1003-1019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odd Steve Hustad ◽  
David John Browning

Summary A coupled formulation for three-phase capillary pressure and relative permeability for implicit compositional reservoir simulation is presented. The formulation incorporates primary, secondary, and tertiary saturation functions. Hysteresis and miscibility are applied simultaneously to both capillary pressure and relative permeability. Two alternative three-phase capillary pressure formulations are presented: the first as described by Hustad (2002) and the second that incorporates six representative two-phase capillary pressures in a saturation-weighting scheme. Consistency is ensured for all three two-phase boundary conditions through the application of two-phase data and normalized saturations. Simulation examples of water-alternating-gas (WAG) injection are presented for water-wet and mixed-wet saturation functions. 1D homogeneous and 2D and 3D heterogeneous examples are employed to demonstrate some model features and performance.


2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. vzj2012.0024 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.J. DeHoff ◽  
M. Oostrom ◽  
C. Zhang ◽  
J.W. Grate

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 323
Author(s):  
Robert Czarnota ◽  
Damian Janiga ◽  
Jerzy Stopa ◽  
Paweł Wojnarowski

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