Simultaneous determination of capillary pressure and relative permeability curves from core-flooding experiments with various fluid pairs

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3516-3530

  Pini, Ronny ^a   Benson, Sally M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

capillary pressure; CO2 sequestration; multiphase properties; relative permeability

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; POINT CONTACTS; SANDSTONE; VISCOSITY;

CO2 SEQUESTRATION; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; INTERFACIAL TENSION VALUES; IRREDUCIBLE WATER SATURATION; MULTIPHASE PROPERTIES; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY CURVES; SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATIONS;

GAS PERMEABILITY;

BEREA SANDSTONE; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; DATA ACQUISITION; DRAINAGE; FLUID FLOW; PERMEABILITY; PREDICTION; VISCOSITY; WATER; WETTING;

EID: 84879054287     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20274     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. 2/brine systems: An experimental study at reservoir conditions, Adv. Water Resour., 52, 190-206.
2. Amaefule, J. O., and, L. L. Handy, (1982), The effect of interfacial tensions on relative oil/water permeabilities of consolidated porous media, Soc. Pet. Eng. J., 22 (3), 371-381.
3. Amyx, J., D. Bass, and, R. Whiting, (1988), Petroleum Reservoir Engineering. Physical Properties, McGraw-Hill, New York.
4. Anderson, W., (1987), Wettability literature survey-Part 4: Effects of wettability on capillary pressure, J. Pet. Technol., 39 (10), 1283-1300.
5. 2-brine systems, Environ. Geol., 54 (8), 1707-1722. (Pubitemid 351743669)
6. Botset, H., (1940), Flow of gas-liquid mixtures through consolidated sand, Trans. AIME, 136 (1), 91-105.
7. Brooks, R. H., and, A. T. Corey, (1964), Hydraulic properties of porous media, Hydrology Paper No. 3, Colorado State University, 1-27.
8. Brown, H. W., (1951), Capillary pressure investigations, Pet. Trans. (AIME), 192, 67-74.
9. Burdine, N., (1953), Relative permeability calculations from pore size distribution data, J. Pet. Technol., 5 (3), 71-78.
10. Burdine, N., L. Gournay, and, P. Reichertz, (1950), Pore size distribution of petroleum reservoir rocks, J. Pet. Technol., 2 (7), 195-204.
11. Chun, B.-S., and, G. T. Wilkinson, (1995), Interfacial tension in high-pressure carbon dioxide mixtures, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 34 (12), 4371-4377.
12. Craig, F. Jr,.(1971), The Reservoir Engineering Aspects of waterflooding, SPE Monograph Series 3, Society of Petroleum Engineers.
13. 2/water/glass interface, Langmuir, 22 (5), 2161-2170. (Pubitemid 43382852)
14. Dullien, F., (1979), Porous Media. Fluid Transport and Pore Structure., Academic Press, London.
15. Fordham, E. J., L. D. Hall, T. S. Ramakrishnan, M. R. Sharpe, and, C. Hall, (1993), Saturation gradients in drainage of porous media: NMR imaging measurements, AIChE J., 39 (9), 1431-1443. (Pubitemid 273880)
16. Geffen, T., W. Owens, D. Parrish, and, R. Morse, (1951), Experimental investigation of factors affecting laboratory relative permeability measurements, J. Pet. Technol., 3 (4), 99-110.
17. Hassanizadeh, S. M., and, W. G. Gray, (1993), Thermodynamic basis of capillary pressure in porous media, Water Resour. Res., 29 (10), 3389-3405. (Pubitemid 24401191)
18. IPCC (2005), IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage. Prepared by Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, edited by, B. Metz, O. Davidson, H. de Coninck, C. M. Loos, and, L. A. Meyer, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY.
19. Kestin, J., and, I. Shankland, (1984), Viscosity of aqueous NaCl solutions in the temperature range 25-200â̂̃C and in the pressure range 0.1-30 MPaaCl solutions in the temperature range 25-200â̂̃C and in the pressure range 0.1-30 MPa, Int. J. Thermophys., 5 (3), 241-263. (Pubitemid 14642973)
20. Killins, C., R. Nielsen, and, J. Calhoun, (1953), Capillary desaturation and imbibition in rocks, Prod. Mon., 18 (2), 30-39.
21. 2 and brine: Pore-scale studies in micromodels, Environ. Sci. Technol., 46 (7), 4228-4235.
22. 2 and water in sandstone rocks at reservoir conditions, Water Resour. Res., 48, W02532.
23. Kyte, J., and, L. Rapoport, (1958), Linear waterflood behavior and end effects in water-wet porous media, J. Pet. Technol., 10 (10), 47-50.
24. Lake, L. W., (1996), Enhanced Oil Recovery, Prentice Hall, NJ.
25. Leas, W., L. Jenks, and, C. Russel, (1950), Relative permeability to gas, Pet. Trans. (AIME), 189, 65-72.
26. Lefebvre du Prey, E., (1973), Factors affecting liquid-liquid relative permeabilities of a consolidated porous medium, SPE J., 13 (1), 39-47.
27. Leverett, M. C., (1941), Capillary behavior in porous solids, Pet. Trans. (AIME), 142, 152-169.
28. 1, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 57 (4), 1078-1088.
29. 2-brine relative permeability experiments in reservoir rocks-literature review and recommendations, Transp. Porous Media, 87 (2), 367-383.
30. Muskat, M., (1937), The flow of fluids through porous media, J. Appl. Phys., 8 (4), 274-282.
31. Oak, M., L. Baker, and, D. Thomas, (1990), Three-phase relative permeability of Berea Sandstone, J. Pet. Technol., 42 (8), 1054-1061.
32. Osoba, J., J. Richardson, J. Kerver, J. Hafford, and, P. Blair, (1951), Laboratory measurements of relative permeability, J. Pet. Technol., 3 (5), 47-56.
33. Pentland, C. H., R. El-Maghraby, S. Iglauer, and, M. J. Blunt, (2011), Measurements of the capillary trapping of supercritical carbon dioxide in Berea Sandstone, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L06,401.
34. 2 distribution in reservoir rocks, Transp. Porous Media, 82 (1), 93-109.
35. 2/water system in sandstone rocks at reservoir conditions, Adv. Water Resour., 38, 48-59.
36. 2 sequestration, Adv. Water Resour., 30 (11), 2339-2353. (Pubitemid 47335549)
37. Purcell, W. R., (1949), Capillary pressures-Their measurement using mercury and the calculation of permeability therefrom, J. Pet. Technol., 1 (2), 39-48.
38. Ramakrishnan, T., and, A. Cappiello, (1991), A new technique to measure static and dynamic properties of a partially saturated porous medium, Chem. Eng. Sci., 46 (4), 1157-1163. (Pubitemid 21738024)
39. Richardson, J., J. Kerver, J. Hafford, and, J. Osoba, (1952), Laboratory determination of relative permeability, Pet. Trans. (AIME), 195, 187-196.
40. Seader, J. D., E. J. Henley, and, D. K. Roper, (2010), Separation Process Principles, 3rd ed. Wiley, New York.
41. Yan, W., G.-Y. Zhao, G.-J. Chen, and, T.-M. Guo, (2001), Interfacial tension of (methane + nitrogen) + water and (carbon dioxide + nitrogen) + water systems, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 46 (6), 1544-1548. (Pubitemid 33073928)