Steady-state supercritical CO2 and brine relative permeability in Berea sandstone at different temperature and pressure conditions

Chen, Xiongyu; Gao, Shuang; Kianinejad, Amir; DiCarlo, David A.

doi:10.1002/2017wr020810

Title: Steady-state supercritical CO₂ and brine relative permeability in Berea sandstone at different temperature and pressure conditions

Journal Article · Thu Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Water Resources Research

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/2017wr020810· OSTI ID:1533008

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Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States). Dept. of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States). Bureau of Economic Geology

In this study, we measure steady-state two-phase supercritical CO₂-brine relative permeabilities in a 61 cm-long Berea sandstone core at three different conditions (408C and 12.41 MPa, 408C and 8.27 MPa, and 608C and 12.41 MPa) under primary drainage. We use pressure taps to obtain pressure drops of individual sections of the core, and X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) to obtain in situ saturation profiles, which together help to mitigate the capillary end effect. We include previously measured relative permeabilities at 208C and 10.34 MPa, and compare all the data using both an eye-test and a statistical test. We find no appreciable temperature and pressure dependence of CO₂ relative permeability within 20–608C and 8.27–12.41 MPa. We find slight changes in the brine relative permeability between supercritical CO₂ conditions (40–608C and 8.27–12.41 MPa) and the liquid CO₂ condition (208C and 10.34 MPa). The temperature and pressure independence of CO₂ relative permeability has been previously recognized and reassured in this work using a capillary-effect-free method. This allows one to use a single CO₂ relative permeability curve in modeling two-phase CO₂ flow within 20–608C and 8.27–12.41 MPa.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

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OSTI ID:: 1533008

Journal Information:: Water Resources Research, Vol. 53, Issue 7; ISSN 0043-1397

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