NDLI: Investigating the Temperature Dependency of Oil and Water Relative Permeabilities for Heavy Oil Systems

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Author	Ashrafi, Mohammad Souraki, Yaser Torsaeter, Ole
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	A look into the literature on the temperature dependency of oil and water relative permeabilities reveals contradictory reports. There are some publications reporting shifts in the water saturation range as well as variations in the relative permeability curves by temperature. On the other hand, some authors have blamed the experimental artifacts, viscous instabilities and fingering issues for these variations. We have performed core flooding experiments to further investigate this issue. Glass bead packs and sand packs were used as the porous media, and Athabasca bitumen with varying viscosities was displaced by hot water at differing temperatures. The unsteady-state method of relative permeability measurement was applied and the experimental data were history matched by a simulator that is tailor made to predict the relative permeabilities. The matches were obtained by varying the relative permeability correlation parameters. The results indicated that the initial water saturation has a direct relation with temperature, while residual oil saturation generally drops at higher temperatures. Although the water saturation range shifts, no direct and unique trend for either oil or water relative permeability is justified. The spread in relative permeabilities especially in the case of higher permeable cores suggests that viscous instabilities are present. As the same saturation shift happens by only changing the oil viscosity, the relative permeability variations with temperature can be attributed to oil to water viscosity ratio changes with temperature. Temperature dependency of relative permeabilities is more related to experimental artifacts, viscous fingering and viscosity changes than fundamental flow properties.
Starting Page	517
Ending Page	537
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01693913
Journal	Transport in Porous Media
Volume Number	105
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15731634
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2014-09-05
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Relative permeability Unsteady-state method History matching End point saturations Heavy oil Viscosity Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Hydrology/Water Resources Civil Engineering Hydrogeology Classical Continuum Physics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Catalysis

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