We present a novel methodology for the prediction of three-phase oil relative permeability, kro, through a sigmoid-based model. This modeling choice allows us to incorporate key effects of the pore-scale phase distributions into the proposed effective empirical model for kro. Our sigmoid-based model is able to reproduce: (i) oil remobilization induced by gas injection in water-wet media; (ii) a...

The effect of a series thin, horizontal, low-permeability layers on convective motion from distributed dense source along an upper boundary in otherwise homogeneous, two-dimensional porous medium is considered. This set-up provides idealised version relatively common form heterogeneity geological formations. thickness and permeability the thin are assumed to be small relative distance between t...

By analyzing the permeability controlling factors of tight sandstone reservoir in Wuhaozhuang Oil Field, the permeability is considered to be mainly controlled by porosity, clay content, irreducible water saturation and diagenetic coefficient. Because the conventional BP algorithm has its drawbacks such as slow convergence speed and easy falling into the local minimum value, an improved three-l...

Adding surfactant into the displacing aqueous phase during surfactant-enhanced aquifer remediation of NAPL contamination and in chemical flooding oil recovery significantly changes interfacial tension (IFT) (σ) on water–oil interfaces within porous media. The change in IFT may have a large impact on relative permeability for the two-phase flow system. In most subsurface flow investigations, how...

Thin layer chromatography (TLC) stained with hot acidic p-anisaldehyde, is an interesting, fast, and low-cost technique to monitor main lipid contaminants such as triacylglycerols, diacylglycerols, and monoacylglycerols in biodiesel. These acylglycerols are detectable by the proposed planar chromatographic method, provided the content of the contaminants exceeds the limits recommended by the in...

Many world class large carbonate reservoirs leave behind at least half of the initial oil in place. Typically water injection is used to improve oil recovery while gas injection is used to maintain pressure or to promote oil gravity drainage. Immiscible gas injection, including injection of CO2, has been considered but not implemented on a large scale for economic reasons. Furthermore, interest...

Displacement of oil and water in porous media of reservoir rocks is described by relative                      permeability curves, which are important input data for reservoir performance simulation and drive mechanism studies. Many core studies, such as multiphase relative permeability, capillary pressure and saturation exponent determination, depend on the volume fractions of multiphase flui...

Thin-layer chromatography of nineteen amines has been performed on silica gel layers with a water-in-oil microemulsion (sodium dodecyl sulphate + water + heptane + n-pentanol, 8.0 g + 8.0 mL + 160.0 mL + 25.0 mL) as mobile phase. The effect of the basicity of the amines on their RF values was examined. The proposed thin layer chromatographic method was used to separate isomers of nitroaniline f...

Reservoir porous medium is random, in terms of oil and gas for low permeability reservoirs. Consider the random nature of the reservoir will enable to improve the accuracy of numerical reservoir simulation. Based on extensive research, for the stochastic nature of the reservoir from the two aspects of physical simulation, numerical simulation, the relevant international studies were reviewed. T...