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porous rocks of oil reservoirs - Sajjad Esmaeili, Hemanta Sarma, Thomas Harding, Brij Maini
Honarpour MM, Koederitz F, Herbert A. Relative permeability of petroleum reservoirs. 1986.
Nourmohammad A, Vahidi A, Emadi M, Gerami S. Effect of temperature on two phase oil-water
relative permeabilities. 77th EAGE conference and exhibition
2015. 2015.
Virnovsky G, Skjaeveland S, Surdal J, Ingsoy P. Steady-state relative permeability
measurements corrected for capillary effects. SPE annual technical conference and
exhibition. Society of Petroleum Engineers; 1995.]
This method can cover full saturation range. However, because of the required pressure and
saturation stabilization for each reading, it is very time consuming and expensive. Du Yuqi OB,
Dacun L. Literature review on methods to obtain relative permeability
data. 2004
Due to an expensive and lengthy process of laboratory experiments compared with simulation
methods, non-experimental approaches have been considered to obtain relative permeability
values recently.
Ramstad et. al. shows that for a simulation steady-state flow, drainage and imbibition relative
permeability curves are in good agreement with available experimental steady-state data. The
calculated unsteady-state relative permeabilities for the drainage is fundamentally different from
the steady-state situation. They indicate that for non-wetting phase of unsteady-state flow,
relative permeability for drainage is over-predicted compared to the steady-state data. (Relative
Permeability Calculations from Two-Phase Flow Simulations Directly on Digital Images of
Porous Rocks
DOI 10.1007/s11242-011-9877-8)