Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)

Reservoir Engineering
Parameters
Sudapet H.Q
12 th
to 16th May 2013

Khalid Abdulbasit_ RE_

Sudapet

Contents

Introduction.

Relative Permeability.

Wettability.

Mobility Ratio.

Introduction

To understand the basic principles of EOR some

reservoir engineering parameters have to be fully
known.

Mobility Ratio, Relative Permeability, Wettability and

IFT are the most important reservoir engineering
parameters.

In addition to all the required data to do EOR

analysis.

Relative
Permeability

The permeability of a rock is

the description of the ease
with which fluid can pass
through the pore structure.

kAP
Q
L

 Two types of permeability

measured from the core
Horizontal permeability and
Vertical permeability.
Horizontal permeability in a
reservoir is generally higher
than vertical permeability.

Effective Permeability:
Reflects the ability of a
porous medium to permit the
passage of a fluid under a
potential gradient when two
or three fluids are present in
the pore space.
Relative Permeability:
Relative permeability is the
ratio of effective permeability
to a specified phase to the
rock's absolute permeability.
Provides an extension of
Darcys Law to the presence

kk ro A dP
qo
o dl

kk rw A dP
qw
w dl

Fill all the pore space with 100

% water (Sw=1)

Displace water with oil (called

Drainage process, where Sw &
Krw decreases).
Displace oil with water (called
Imbibition process, where Sw
& Krw increses).

Drainage Process:
Taking water out, wetting
phase is displaced by nonwetting
phase
(called
migration process).
Imbibition Process:
Taking oil out, non-wetting
phase is displaced by
wetting
phase
(called
production
Residual oil process).
saturation
Initial water
saturation
Intersection point

Wettability
Wettability is defined as the
tendency of one fluid to
spread on or adhere to a
solid surface in the presence
of other immiscible fluids.
The wettability dependant on
both
rock
and
fluid
properties.
The wettability of reservoir
rocks
to
the
fluids
is
important
in
that
the
distribution of the fluids in
the porous media is a
function of wettability.

Wettability Measurements:
can be done in the laboratory
from core analysis by using
contact
method which it
depends on
measuring the
angle.

Water Wet

Oil Wet

Wettability Measurements:
Relative permeability is also can be used to know
the wettability depending on the intersection point
(Sor Value).

Low Sor

Water Wet System

High Sor

Oil Wet System

Mobility Ratio
Mobility is the ability of one
fluid to flow faster (higher
speed) than the other(s).
The flow of any fluid
depends
on
both
permeability and viscosity.
Mobility ratio for any fluid
is
the
ratio
between
permeability and viscosity.

Mobility Ratio
Mobility ratio is defined as the mobility of the
displacing fluid divided by the mobility of displaced
fluid.

Oil and water mobilities are the ratio between

permabilities and viscosities.

Then mobility ratio can be written as:

Mobility Ratio
Mobility ratio is used in EOR, in both thermal and
miscible gas injection it deals with oil viscosity, and
in chemical flooding it deals with water viscosity.

The objective is to reduce (control) the mobility

ratio.