期刊
JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
卷 192, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2020.107249
关键词
Capillary end effects; SCAL; Steady state experiment; Generalized capillary number; Analytical solutions; Intercept method
资金
- Research Council of Norway
- ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS of The National IOR Centre of Norway
- Aker BP ASA of The National IOR Centre of Norway
- Var Energi AS of The National IOR Centre of Norway
- Equinor ASA of The National IOR Centre of Norway
- Neptune Energy Norge AS of The National IOR Centre of Norway
- Lundin Norway AS of The National IOR Centre of Norway
- Halliburton AS of The National IOR Centre of Norway
- Schlumberger Norge AS of The National IOR Centre of Norway
- Wintershall DEA, of The National IOR Centre of Norway
- Faculty of Science and Technology at University of Stavanger
- State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation (Southwest Petroleum University) [PLN201602]
Steady state relative permeability experiments are performed by coinjection of two (or more) immiscible fluids. The relative permeabilities can be calculated directly from the stabilized pressure drop and saturation of the core if capillary end effects and transient effects are negligible. In most cases such conditions are difficult to obtain. This work presents an analytical solution in form of explicit expressions for the spatial profiles of pressure gradients and saturation, average saturation and pressure drop for a core being injected simultaneously with two phases at steady state when capillary end effects are significant. When arbitrary saturation functions are applied, such parameters and distributions can only by obtained by numerical integration. By assumption of simplified saturation function correlations the differential equation describing steady state can be integrated. A new dimensionless capillary number N is obtained which contains the fluid and rock parameters, but also the saturation function parameters (relative permeability and capillary pressure), fluid viscosities, injected flow fraction, total flow rate and more. It is shown that when this number is of magnitude 1, end effects cover parts of the core, but parts of the core are also unaffected. For N > 10 the end effects are negligible, while for N < 10 end effects are dominant. This paper gives the first formal proof of the intercept method from basic assumptions. It is shown that when the inlet saturation is sufficiently close to that of a no capillary pressure situation; the average saturation changes linearly with the inverse of total rate towards the saturation corresponding to no capillary forces; also, the pressure drop divided by the pressure drop of a no end effect situation goes linearly towards 1 with the inverse of total rate.
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