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Characterisation of water-oil drainage process through a reservoir rock sample by digital core analysis
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- Oil-water relative permeability and capillary pressure of a water-wet digital core are computed using the finite-volume/volume of fluid method and mimicking traditional laboratory steady-state experiments carried out on a water saturated sample. Commercial software is used for immiscible multiphase fluid flow simulations, carried out on a low-cost multicore workstation, and the porescale data are upscaled to derive relative permeability and capillary pressure curves as function of water saturation. The digital sample is obtained by high resolution X-ray computed tomography scanning. [Received: March 13, 2013; Accepted: June 25, 2013]
- Subjects :
- Capillary pressure
volume of fluid
Mineralogy
relative permeability, digital rock
pore-scale simulation
Relative permeability
digital rock
two-phase flow
steady-state
drainage process
water-oil system
Volume of fluid method
Settore ING-IND/10 - Fisica Tecnica Industriale
Drainage
pore-scale simulation, two-phase flow
Steady state
relative permeability
Sample (graphics)
Petroleum reservoir
steady-state, drainage process, water-oil system
General Energy
Two-phase flow
Geology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....898e9cab026246473c326dc65fe4c63b