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Title: Quick methods of oil-reservoir analysis. [Determination of water saturation at breakthrough, approximation of relative permeability, and evaluation of preferential wettability]

Journal Article · · Pet. Eng.; (United States)
OSTI ID:7314083

As part of a study of application of the Buckley-Leverett method to an analysis of oil-reservoir performance covering a wide range of relative permeabilities and oil saturations, a method has been devised for quickly determining average water saturation at breakthrough from relative permeability data. The base for the relative permeability is the effective permeability to oil at the irreducible water saturation.

Research Organization:
Bureau of Mines, San Francisco
OSTI ID:
7314083
Journal Information:
Pet. Eng.; (United States), Vol. 32:5
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English