Laboratory measurement of relative permeabilities of oil and water in sand

Authors

  • Khwaja Naweed Seddiqi Master Student at Civil Engineering Department, Tokai University, Japan
  • Zabihullah Mahdi Master Student at Civil Engineering Department, Tokai University, Japan
  • Shigeo Honma Professor at Civil Engineering Department, Tokai University, Japan

Keywords:

Petroleum reservoir engineering, Relative permeability, Two-phase flow, Immiscible displacementin porous media, Steady-state method

Abstract

The relative permeability of two immiscible fluids in sand is measured in the laboratory based on the steady-state method. Three sorts of oils, Kerosene, heavy oil and lubricant oil, and water are pumped simultaneously into a vertical sand column with different pumping ratio. From the change in fractional discharge measured at the outlet, a method for determining the relative permeability is developed focusing on the displacement mechanism in sand. Two sorts of experiments, one is the displacement of pore water by oil, the other is the displacement of pore oil by water, are carried out. It is revealed that the relative permeability curves display tolerably different shape owing to the kinds of oils, and produce different amount of residual oils. For the design of the waterflooding technique to predict the oil recovery in petroleum reservoir, it is necessary to asses the relative permeability of the reservoir oil taking care of their characteristics.

References

Aziz, K., Settari, A., 1979. Petroleum reservoir simulation. Appl. Sci. Publ.

Cernica, J.N., 1995. Geotechnical engineering: Soil mechanics, (John Wiley and Sons, Inc.), 85-98.

Craft, R.C., Hawkins, M., Revised by Terry, R.E., 1991. Applied petroleum reservoir engineering (Prentice-Hall), 1-35.

Dandekar, A.Y., 2013. Petroleum Reservoir Rock and Fluid Properties, (CRC Press) 2nd Ed. 205-268.

Nazari, J., Nasiry, F., Seddiqi, N., Honma, S., 2015. Influence of relative permeability and viscosity ratio on oil displacement by water in petroleum reservoir. Proc. Sch. Eng. Tokai. Univ., 40, 15-20.

Tamai, Y., Honma, S., 2012. Experiments and analysis on the simultaneous seepage of pore-water and oils in soils. Proc. Sch. Eng. Tokai. Univ., 52(2), 17-223.

Downloads

Published

2016-07-17

How to Cite

Naweed Seddiqi, K. ., Mahdi, Z. ., & Honma, S. . (2016). Laboratory measurement of relative permeabilities of oil and water in sand. Scientific Journal of Environmental Sciences, 5(7), 237-243. Retrieved from https://sjournals.com/index.php/sjes/article/view/379

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 7 (2016): July

Section

Original Article

License

Copyright (c) 2020 Khwaja Naweed Seddiqi, Zabihullah Mahdi, Shigeo Honma

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.