Mobility Mobility is a measure of the ability of a fluid to move through interconnected pore space. Fractional flow is the ratio of the volume of one phase flowing to the total volume flowing in a multiphase system. These concepts are defined here. Fluid phase mobility is defined as the ratio of effective phase permeability to phase viscosity. Mobility for oil, water and gas phases respectively are 4, ay 3A, = A wa = ° Mo Hay HU, where uu, is the viscosity of phase 4 Relative mobility is defined as relative permeability divided by viscosity. Absolute permeability is not a factor in the definition of relative mobility.Mobility Ratio Mobility ratio is defined as the mobility of the displacing fluid 25 behind the front divided by the mobility of the displaced fluid 7.4 ahead of the front, thus: . A, M=2 44 An example of mobility ratio is the mobility ratio of water to oil for a waterflood: 7 ( ‘2. kK (S. or y w / My Mo ase Lb Tg, Kalu) Y te In this case, relative permeability to water is evaluated at residual oil saturation S,,, and relative permeability to oil is evaluated at connate water saturation S,,., Notice that absolute permeability factors out of the expression for mobility ratio. Consequently, mobility ratio can be calculated usina either mobilities or relative mobilities _-x s - z - § g 5 8 8 re MOBILITY RATIO / (K/M) gisptacea phase porous rock M> 1 ed Displaced ————ee —x_> [a Unstable displacement