Problem 2-3

Red Reservoir, Average Relative Permeability Characteristics

Two samples (3A and 7C) having porosity values of 22.7% and 12.3% have been tested to determine their water-oil relative permeability
characteristics. These are provided on the attached Data sheet.

Questions
1. What definition of absolute permeability was used to prepare these curves?
2. For the sample with 22.7% porosity, what are the effective permeabilities to oil and water
at a water saturation of 49 percent?
3. Does the rock from which these samples were obtained appear to be water-wet or oil-wet?

A large portion of the Red Reservoir Field has porosities closer to 20.4% and 15.7 md permeability.

Find a set of relative permeability characteristics that would apply to the rock characterized by the 20.4% porosity.

Hint: You want to consider permeability, porosity or some combination thereof as an indicator of rock quality for normalizing
the available data relating to the connate water saturation and the residual oil saturation.

Also you may want to normalize the saturation axis between the endpoints to compare the shape of the relative
permeability curves for the two samples.
 Laboratory Relative Permeability Results

Relative P erm eab ility

Sample 3A
Sample 3A
Porosity (frac) = 0.227
Air Permeability (md) = 23.8 1.00
Permeability to Oil at Swir (md) = 21.4
0.80 Kro
Sw Kro Krw case 1 case 2 case 3 Kr
w
0.60
0.231 1.000 0.000 0 0.000 0.000
0.318 0.680 0.020 0.746269 0.227273 0.011628 0.40
0.404 0.430 0.045 0.912779 0.511364 0.040179
0.491 0.250 0.078 0.968944 0.757282 0.110953
0.20
0.577 0.120 0.130 0.990854 0.915493 0.302326
0.664 0.050 0.190 0.997375 0.974359 0.603175
0.750 0.000 0.280 1 1 1 0.00
0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.00
Water Saturation (fraction)

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 Relative P erm eability
Sample 7C
Sample 7C
Porosity (frac) = 0.123
Air Permeability (md) = 5.3 1.00
Permeability to Oil at Swir (md) = 4.5
0.80 Kro
Kr
Sw Kro Krw Case 1 Case 2 Case 3 w
0.60

0.350 1.000 0.000 0 0 0

0.40
0.423 0.700 0.015 0.681818 0.176471 0.008499
0.496 0.500 0.050 0.909091 0.5 0.038462
0.569 0.330 0.080 0.960384 0.707965 0.088398 0.20
0.642 0.160 0.110 0.985663 0.873016 0.215686
0.715 0.060 0.190 0.996852 0.969388 0.558824 0.00
0.789 0.000 0.300 1 1 1 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.00
Water Saturation (fraction)

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 case Oil Viscosity, cp Water Viscosity, cp
1 50 0.5
2 5 0.5
3 0.4 1

1.200

1.000

0.800
Case
Kro 1
Kr 0.600
w Case
2
0.400

0.200

0.000
0.200 0.300 0.400 0.500 0.600 0.700 0.800
0 0.80 1.00
tion)

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 1.2

0.8

Kro
Case
Kr 0.6 1
w Case
2
0.4

0.2

0
0.300 0.400 0.500 0.600 0.700 0.800 0.900
60 0.80 1.00
ction)

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