Problem 2

ROCK PROPERTIES

AVERAGING ROCK RELATIVE PERMEABILITY

Two samples having porosity values of 12.3% and 22.7% have been tested to determine their water-oil relative permeability
characteristics. These are provided on the attached Data sheet. A large portion of the reservoir has porosities closer to 17.5%
and 55 md permeability.

Find a set of relative permeability characteristics that would apply to the rock characterized by the 17.5% porosity.

Hint: You want to consider permeability, porosity or some combination thereof as an indicator of rock quality for normalizing
the available data relating to the connate water saturation and the residual oil saturation.

Also you may want to normalize the saturation axis between the endpoints to compare the shape of the relative
permeability curves for the two samples.
 ROCK PROPERTIES

AVERAGING ROCK RELATIVE PERMEABILITY

Laboratory Relative Permeability Results

Sample A
Sample A
1.000
Porosity (frac) = 0.227
Permeability (md) = 135
0.800 Kro

Relative Permeability
Sw Kro Krw Krw
0.600
0.231 1.000 0.000
0.318 0.680 0.020
0.400
0.404 0.430 0.045
0.491 0.250 0.078
0.577 0.120 0.130 0.200
0.664 0.050 0.190
0.750 0.000 0.280 0.000
0.000 0.200 0.400 0.600
Water Saturation (fraction)

Sample B:
Sample B
Porosity (frac) = 0.123
Permeability (md) = 22
1.000

Sw Kro Krw 0.800 Kro

Relative Permeability

Krw
0.350 1.000 0.000 0.600
0.423 0.700 0.015
0.496 0.500 0.050
0.569 0.330 0.080 0.400
0.642 0.160 0.110
0.715 0.060 0.190 0.200
0.789 0.000 0.300

0.000
0.000 0.200 0.400 0.600
Water Saturation (fraction)
 Sample A

Kro
Krw

0.400 0.600 0.800 1.000

er Saturation (fraction)

Sample B

Kro
Krw

0.400 0.600 0.800 1.000

r Saturation (fraction)