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1. Laboratory Analysis

2. Laboratory Experiments

3. Rock Properties:A. Porosity

B. Saturation

C. Wettability

D. Capillary Pressure

E. Transition Zone

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1. Darcy Law: Linear Flow Model

2. Permeability Measurements

3. Darcy Law: Radial Flow Model

4. Permeability-Averaging Techniques

5. Effective Permeabilities

6. Rock Compressibility

7. Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Reservoirs

8. Two-Phase Permeability

9. Reservoir Characteristics

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Darcy’s Law

Permeability is a property of the porous medium that measures the capacity and ability of the formation to transmit fluids.

The rock permeability, k, is a very important rock property because it controls the directional movement and the flow rate of the reservoir fluids in the formation.

This rock characterization was first defined mathematically by Henry Darcy in 1856. In fact, the equation that defines permeability in terms of measurable quantities is called Darcy’s Law.

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Darcy’s Equation

If a horizontal linear flow of an incompressible fluid is established through a core sample of length L and a cross-section of area A (includes the area of the rock material as well as the area of the pore channels), then the governing fluid flow equation is defined as

Where ν = apparent fluid flowing velocity, cm/sec, k = proportionality constant, or permeability, Darcy’s, μ = viscosity of the flowing fluid, cp, dp/dL = pressure drop per unit length, atm/cm

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Darcy’s Equation (Cont.)

The velocity, ν, is not the actual velocity of the flowing fluid but Is the apparent velocity

determined by dividing the flow rate by the cross-sectional area across which fluid is flowing.

Substituting the relationship, q/A, in place of ν and solving for q results in:

Pressure vs. Distance in a Linear FlowFall 13 H. AlamiNia Reservoir Engineering 1 Course: Darcy’s Law & Permeability 7

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Permeability Unit

With a flow rate of one cubic centimeter per second across a cross-sectional area of one square centimeter with a fluid of one centipoise viscosity and a pressure gradient at one atmosphere per centimeter of length, it is obvious that k is unity.For the units described above, k has been arbitrarily

assigned a unit called Darcy in honor of the man responsible for the development of the theory of flow through porous media.

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Darcy Unit

One Darcy is a relatively high permeability as the permeabilities of most reservoir rocks are less than one Darcy. In order to avoid the use of fractions in describing

permeabilities, the term millidarcy is used.

The negative sign is necessary as the pressure increases in one direction while the length increases in the opposite direction.

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Linear Flow Model

The Equation can be integrated when the geometry of the system through which fluid flows is known.

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Conventional Linear Flow Equation

The volumetric flow rate, q, is constant for liquids because the density does not change significantly with pressure.

Since p1 is greater than p2, the pressure terms can be rearranged, which will eliminate the negative term in the equation.

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Permeability Determination in Laboratory Dry gas is usually used (air, N2, He) in permeability

determination because of its convenience, availability, and to minimize fluid-rock reaction.

The measurement of the permeability should be restricted to the low (laminar/viscous) flow rate region, where the pressure remains proportional to flow rate within the experimental error.

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Using Dry Gas in Measuring K

For high flow rates, Darcy’s equation as expressed by q=kA (p1-p2)/μL is inappropriate to describe the relationship of flow rate and pressure drop.

In using dry gas in measuring the permeability, the gas volumetric flow rate q varies with pressure because the gas is a highly compressible fluid. Therefore, the value of q at the average pressure in the core must be used in the Equation.

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Using Dry Gas in Measuring K (Cont.)

Assuming the used gases follow the ideal gas behavior (at low pressures), p1V1=p2V2=pmVm so p1q1=p2q2=pmqm with pm= (p1+p2)/2The gas flow rate is usually measured at base

(atmospheric) pressure Pb and, therefore, the term Qgsc (gas flow rate at standard conditions) is introduced, so Qgscpb=qmpm

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The Klinkenberg Effect in Gas Permeability MeasurementsKlinkenberg (1941)

discovered that permeability measurements made with air as the flowing fluid showed different results from permeability measurements made with a liquid as the flowing fluid.

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Radial Flow Model

Darcy Equation (q=-kA/μ dp/dL) can be expanded to describe flow in any porous medium where the geometry of the system is not too complex to integrate. For example, the flow into

a well bore is not linear, but is more often radial. Figure illustrates the type

of flow that is typical of that occurring near a producing well.

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Darcy’s Equation for Radial Flow

For a radial flow, Darcy’s equation in a differential form can be written as:

dL has been replaced by dr, as the length term has now become a radius term.

The minus sign is no longer required for the radial system as the radius increases in the same direction as the pressure. In other words, as the radius increases going away from the well bore, the pressure also increases.

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Darcy’s Equation for Radial Flow (Cont.)At any point in the

reservoir, the cross-sectional area across which flow occurs will be the surface area of a cylinder, which is 2πrh.

Since the cross-sectional area is related to r, then A must be included within the integral sign as follows:

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Remarks for Darcy’s Equation (Radial Flow)

The above equation assumes that the reservoir is homogeneous and is completely saturated with a single liquid phase, where:

q = flow rate, reservoir cm3/sec

k = absolute permeability, Darcy

h = thickness, cmre = drainage radius, cmrw = well bore radius,

cmpe = pressure at

drainage radius, atmpwf = bottom-hole

flowing pressureμ = viscosity, cp

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Averaging Absolute Permeabilities

Three simple permeability-averaging techniques are commonly used to determine an appropriate average permeability to represent an equivalent homogeneous system.

These are:Weighted-average permeability

Harmonic-average permeability

Geometric-average permeability

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Linear Flow through Layered Beds

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Weighted-Average Permeability (Linear)

The average absolute permeability for a parallel-layered system can be expressed in the following form:

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Linear Flow through Layered Beds with Variable Area (Linear)Figure shows a similar

layered system with variable layers width.Assuming no cross-flow

between the layers, the average permeability can be approximated to give:(Aj = cross-sectional area

of layer j, wj = width of layer j)

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Harmonic-Average Permeability (Linear)For a steady-state flow,

the flow rate is constant and the total pressure drop Δp is equal to the sum of the pressure drops across each bed, or

Δp = Δp1 + Δp2 + Δp3

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Harmonic-Average Permeability (Radial)The relationship can be

used as a basis for estimating a number of useful quantities in production work. For example, the effects of mud invasion, acidizing, or well shooting can be estimated from it.

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Geometric-Average Permeability

Warren and Price (1961) illustrated experimentally that the most probable behavior of a heterogeneous formation approaches that of a uniform system having a permeability that is equal to the geometric average. Where ki = permeability

of core sample ihi = thickness of core

sample in = total number of

samples

If the thicknesses (hi) of all core samples are the same

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Effective Permeability Definitions

As the saturation of a particular phase decreases, the permeability to that phase also decreases. The measured permeability is referred to as the effective

permeability and is a relative measure of the conductance of the porous medium for one fluid when the medium is saturated with more than one fluid. (kg, ko, kw)

The sum of the effective permeabilities is always less than or equal to the absolute permeability, i.e.

kg + ko + kw ≤ k

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Effective Permeability in Darcy’s Law

The effective permeability is used mathematically in Darcy’s Law in place of the absolute permeability.

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Relative Permeability

Relative permeability is defined as the ratio of the effective permeability to a given fluid at a definite saturation to the permeability at 100% saturation.

The relative permeability to a fluid will vary from a value of zero at some low saturation of that fluid to a value of 1.0 at 100% saturation of that fluid.

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Rock Compressibility Types

Geertsma (1957) points out that there are three different types of compressibility that must be distinguished in rocks:Rock-matrix compressibility, cr

Rock-bulk compressibility, cB

Pore compressibility, cp

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Formation Compressibility

For most petroleum reservoirs, the rock and bulk compressibility are considered small in comparison with the pore compressibility cp.

The formation compressibility cf (range from 3 × 10−6 to 25 × 10−6 psi−1) is the term commonly used to describe the total compressibility of the formation and is set equal to cp, i.e.:

In general, the formation compressibility cf is the same order of magnitude as the compressibility of the oil and water and, therefore, cannot be regulated.

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Total Reservoir Compressibility

The total reservoir compressibility ct is extensively used in the transient flow equation and

the material balance equation.

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Gross Pay Thickness

A fundamental prerequisite to reservoir performance prediction is a satisfactory knowledge of the volume of oil originally in place.

The reservoir is necessarily confined to certain geologic and fluid boundaries, i.e., GOC, WOC, and GWC, so accuracy is imperative. Within the confines of such boundaries, oil is contained

in what is commonly referred to as Gross Pay.

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Net Pay Thickness

Net Pay is that part of the reservoir thickness that contributes to oil recovery and is defined by imposing the following criteria:Lower limit of porosity

Lower limit of permeability

Upper limit of water saturation

All available measurements performed on reservoir samples and in wells, such as core analysis and well logs, are extensively used in evaluating the reservoir net thickness.

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Reservoir Heterogeneity

The heterogeneity of reservoirs is, for the most part, dependent upon the depositional environments and subsequent events.

It is important to recognize that there are no homogeneous reservoirs, only varying degrees of heterogeneity.

The reservoir heterogeneity is then defined as a variation in reservoir properties as a function of space.

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Homogeneous Vs. Heterogeneous ReservoirsIdeally, if the reservoir is homogeneous, measuring

a reservoir property at any location will allow us to fully describe the reservoir. The task of reservoir description is very simple for

homogeneous reservoirs.

On the other hand, if the reservoir is heterogeneous, the reservoir properties vary as a function of a spatial location.These properties may include permeability, porosity,

thickness, saturation, faults and fractures, rock facies, and rock characteristics.

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Heterogeneous Reservoirs

For a proper reservoir description, we need to predict the variation in these reservoir properties as a function of spatial locations.

There are essentially two types of heterogeneity:Vertical heterogeneity

Areal heterogeneity

Geostatistical methods are used extensively in the petroleum industry to quantitatively describe the two types of the reservoir heterogeneity.

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Two-Phase Relative Permeability

When a wetting and a nonwetting phase flow together in a reservoir rock, each phase follows separate and distinct paths. Since the wetting phase occupies the smaller pore

openings at small saturations, and these pore openings do not contribute materially to flow, it follows that the presence of a small wetting phase saturation will affect the nonwetting phase permeability only to a limited extent.

Since the nonwetting phase occupies the central or larger pore openings that contribute materially to fluid flow through the reservoir, however, a small nonwetting phase saturation will drastically reduce the wetting phase permeability.

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Typical Two-Phase Flow Behavior

Figure presents a typical set of relative permeability curves for a water-oil system with the water being considered the wetting phase.

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Hysteresis Effects in Relative Permeability

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Effective Phase Saturation

Most of the Two-phase Relative Permeability correlations use the effective phase saturation as a correlating parameter. The effective phase saturation is defined by the following set of relationships:

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Relative Permeability Ratio

The relative (or effective) permeability ratio lends itself more readily to analysis and to the correlation of flow performances than does relative permeability itself.

The relative permeability ratio expresses the ability of a reservoir to permit flow of one fluid as related to its ability to permit flow of another fluid under the same circumstances.

The two most useful permeability ratios are krg/kro and krw/kro.

The relative permeability ratio may vary in magnitude from zero to infinity.

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Relative Permeability Ratio Plot

In describing two-phase flow mathematically, it is always the relative permeability ratio (e.g., krg/kro or kro/krw) that is used in the flow equations.

Because the wide range of the relative permeability ratio values, the permeability ratio is usually plotted on the log scale of semilog paper as a function of the saturation.

The central or the main portion of the curve is quite linear.

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Krg/Kro as a Function of Saturation

Figure shows a plot of krg/kro versus gas saturation.

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Krg/Kro as a Function of Saturation (Cont.)It has become common usage to express the

central straight-line portion of the relationship in the following analytical form:

The constants a and b may be determined by selecting the coordinate of two different points on the straight-line portion of the curve and substituting in the Equation. The resulting two equations can be solved simultaneously for the constants a and b.

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Porous Media

Flow in porous media is a very complex phenomenon and as such cannot be described as explicitly as flow through pipes or conduits. It is rather easy to measure the length and diameter of a

pipe and compute its flow capacity as a function of pressure;

In porous media, however, flow is different in that there are no clear-cut flow paths that lend themselves to measurement.

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Analysis of Fluid Flow in Porous MediaThe analysis of fluid flow in porous media has

evolved throughout the years along two fronts—the experimental and the analytical.

Physicists, engineers, hydrologists, and the like have examined experimentally the behavior of various fluids as they flow through porous media ranging from sand packs to fused Pyrex glass.

On the basis of their analyses, they have attempted to formulate laws and correlations that can then be utilized to make analytical predictions for similar systems.

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Primary Reservoir Characteristics

The main objective of the next few lectures is to present the mathematical relationships that are designed to describe the flow behavior of the reservoir fluids.

The mathematical forms of these relationships will vary depending upon the characteristics of the reservoir. The primary reservoir characteristics that must be

considered include:Types of fluids in the reservoir

Flow regimes

Reservoir geometry

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1. Ahmed, T. (2010). Reservoir engineering handbook (Gulf Professional Publishing). Chapter 4 and 5

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1. Reservoir CharacteristicsA. Reservoir Fluid Types According To Compressibility

B. Types of Flow Regimes

C. Types of Reservoir Geometries

D. Darcy’s Law Remarks

2. SS Regime for:A. Linear Flow and Tilted Reservoirs

B. Radial Flow of a. Incompressible and Slightly Compressible Fluids

b. Compressible Fluids

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