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Title: Time Scaling of the Rates of Produced Fluids in Laboratory Displacements

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/775024· OSTI ID:775024

In this report, the use of an asymptotic method, based on the time scaling of the ratio of produced fluids, to infer the relative permeability exponent of the displaced phase near its residual saturation, for immiscible displacements in laboratory cores was proposed. Sufficiently large injection rates, the existence of a power law can be detected, and its exponent inferred, by plotting in an appropriate plot the ratio of the flow rates of the two fluids at the effluent for some time after breakthrough.

Research Organization:
National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Tulsa, OK (United States). National Petroleum Technology Office (NPTO)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE) (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC26-99BC15211
OSTI ID:
775024
Report Number(s):
BC15211-11; TRN: AH200114%%299
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 27 Feb 2001
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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