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Standing's Relative Permeability Correlation (Part 1 - Introduction)

Effective permeability is a function of pore size distribution, wettability, saturation, and saturation history. Relative permeability is the ratio of effective permeability of a fluid to the base permeability. The base permeability can be the dry air permeability, absolute permeability, or oil permeability at irreducible water saturation. Relative permeability is measured through drainage and imbibition tests in water-oil and gas-oil systems. The experimental data must match the reservoir saturation processes. Fundamentally, fluids in pores are under capillary control and each fluid's relative permeability depends on the amount of that fluid present and the pore sizes it occupies, as fluids tend to block each other's flow through separate pore groups.

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Standing's Relative Permeability Correlation (Part 1 - Introduction)

Effective permeability is a function of pore size distribution, wettability, saturation, and saturation history. Relative permeability is the ratio of effective permeability of a fluid to the base permeability. The base permeability can be the dry air permeability, absolute permeability, or oil permeability at irreducible water saturation. Relative permeability is measured through drainage and imbibition tests in water-oil and gas-oil systems. The experimental data must match the reservoir saturation processes. Fundamentally, fluids in pores are under capillary control and each fluid's relative permeability depends on the amount of that fluid present and the pore sizes it occupies, as fluids tend to block each other's flow through separate pore groups.

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Standings Relative

Permeability
Correlation
(Part 1--Introduction)

Review of Effective Permeability


Effective
permeability is a
function of
k f A f
pore size & pore
,
qf =
f L
size distribution
wettability
f = oil , water , gas
saturation
saturation history

Review of Relative Permeability

k rf =

kf
kbase

f = oil , water , gas

The base permeability


can be
ka, dry air
permeability at patm
k, absolute
permeability
ko]Siw, oil
permeability at
irreducible water
saturation

Saturation History
Nomenclature
drainage: kro]dr
imbibition: kro]imb
Water-oil system, water wetting

Saturation History
Nomenclature
drainage: kro]dr
imbibition: kro]imb
Gas-oil system, liquid wetting

Saturation History
Application
Data must match reservoir process

Fundamental Concepts
Fluids in pores
are under
capillary control
krw depends on
mobile water, (Sw-Siw)
krg depends on gas
present, Sg
kro depends on oil present, So, and the pore size in which
it lies
Each fluid moves through separate groups of pores and
tends to block flow of other fluids

Effective Saturations

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