f Analysis and Design of Coreflow Experiments

B020 ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF COREFLOW EXPERIMENTS Abstract 1 T. FINCHAM TOTAL UK Geoscience Research Center 33 Cavendish square LONDON UK Relative permeabilities are empirical factors that are used to correct the single-phase Darcy’s law for application to multiphase flow. The relative permeability of any phase is an increasing function of the phase saturation. Relative permeabilities are important input data for reservoir simulation studies and have a strong influence on reservoir behaviour. There are several different types of laboratory experiments on core samples that are used to find the relative permeability of reservoir rock: unsteady state steady-state centrifuge. To extract