Professional paper

Implementation of Brooks and Corey Correlation in Water Wet Case -With Immobile Wetting Phase

Muhammad Khurram Zahoor ; Petroleum Engineering Department, Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.
Mohd. Nawi Derahman ; Petroleum Engineering Department, Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
Mat Hussin Yunan ; Petroleum Engineering Department, Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

Abstract

Brooks and Corey1 developed a correlation to estimate the capillary pressure for drainage processes, which utilizes the concept of effective saturation to generate data. This effective saturation in the correlation is calculated, primarily based on the change in wetting phase saturation and can be used quite effectively for the respective purposes. However, there are cases, in which the wetting phase saturation remains constant throughout the displacement process. For such cases, a modification has been made for better representation and to use Brooks and Corey correlation for capillary pressure estimation under such cases. This modification will result into better analysis, which will result into better reservoir monitoring and surveillance.

Keywords

capillary pressure; estimation; prediction; wetting

Hrčak ID:

41419

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/41419

Publication date:

31.8.2009.

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