Two- and Three-Phase Relative Permeabilities of Micellar Fluids
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- Published by Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) in SPE Formation Evaluation
- Vol. 2 (03), 327-337
- https://doi.org/10.2118/13581-pa
Abstract
Summary: Two- and three-phase relative permeabilities have been measured for a low-interfacial-tension (IFT) brine/oil/surfactant/alcohol mixture in Berea sandstone cores. The measurements were done at steady-state conditions with a constant nominal capillary number of 10−2. These are the first three-phase micellar relative permeabilities reported to date. Continuous and slug displacements of both partitioning and nonpartitioning radioactive tracers were run for each steady-state experiment. The effluent tracer data from these experiments were analyzed by a capacitance model. Both excess phases flowing with the microemulsion showed significant capacitance effects, but the microemulsion did not. The absence of capacitance indicates that the microemulsion was probably the wetting phase in these low-IFT flows, even more wetting than the excess brine phase. The relative permeability of each phase is a function of only its own saturation during three-phase flow. Polymer dissolved in brine had little effect on the relative permeabilities of brine and microemulsion in two-phase flow.Keywords
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