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PRODUCTION BY
SPONTANEOUS WATER
IMBIBITION
HAIYANG ZHAO, SINOPEC, AND KEWEN LI, SPE, STANDFORD UNIVERSITY. (2009)
SPE 119525
INTRODUCTION
All of the above models show that the value of m is equal to 0.5. However
Laughlin and Davies (1961) measured the capillary rise of oil in fibrous textile
wicking and found that the value of m varied from 0.41 to 0.50.
PRODUCTION MODEL
Lenomard (1990) proposed a model to correlate the oil production time according to
fractal geometry:
Where Df is the fractal dimension and represents the heterogeneity of the porous medium.
Camacho-Velazquez et al. (2006) reported a similar relationship between production rate
and time.
Comparing both previous equations:
The generalized recovery model (Li and Horne) may be modified by considering the
heterogeneity: