Calculation method for oil-water relative permeability in a tight sandstone reservoir
LI Binhui1, 2, FEI Chunguang2, FU Lanqing2, CAO Weizheng2, DONG Dapeng2, LI Yiqiang1
1 College of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Beijing 102249, China. 2 Exploration and Development Research Institute of Daqing Oilfield Company Ltd., Daqing 163712, China
Using the tight sandstone cores in the Northern Songliao Basin, an experiment is conducted to determine the pseudo-threshold pressure gradient of two-phase flow under different physical properties and different water saturation. On this basis, a mathematical method for characterizing the pseudo-threshold pressure gradient of two-phase flow with rock properties and water saturation is established. We combined a mathematical model of unsteady water flooding relative permeability with a variable starting pressure gradient, (derived from non-Darcy percolation theory) with the mathematical characterization method of pseudo-threshold pressure gradient. This established a new method for calculating oil-water relative permeability of tight sandstone reservoir. The calculation results of the new method are compared with the JBN method. The achievements show that in a tight sandstone reservoir, with an increase of water saturation, the two-phase flow starting pressure gradient increases first and then decreases, and there is a strong correlation between the maximum pseudo-threshold pressure gradient and the Kleinberg permeability; The two-phase relative permeability curves of the Northern Songliao Basin tight sandstone reservoir have the following characteristics: The two-phase seepage zone is narrow, water flooding efficiency is relatively low, and the water relative permeability is low, which indicates that water flooding development is difficult.
LI Binhui, FEI Chunguang, FU Lanqing, CAO Weizheng, DONG Dapeng, LI Yiqiang. Calculation method for oil-water relative permeability in a tight sandstone reservoir. Petroleum Science Bulletin, 2019, 01: 83-91.