Effect of temperature on the oil–water relative permeability for sandstone reservoirs

Modeling temperature dependency of oil - water relative permeability in thermal enhanced oil recovery processes using group method of data handling and gene expression programming

“…However, it is needed to add that relative permeability can be affected by various factors and parameters, among which we can cite the absolute permeability, viscosities of water and oil phases and saturation (Honarpour, Nagarajan, & Sampath, 2006). In addition, the changes made in the fluids and rock proprieties by the temperature upsurge influence the relative permeability curves in TEOR (Casse & Ramey Jr, 1979;Ehrlich, 1970;Honarpour et al, 2006;Sinnokrot, 1969;Zhang, Tong, Xiong, & Zhao, 2017).…”

“…The temperature impact on relative permeability values and the shape of their curves has received considerable attention during last decades (Ashrafi et al, 2012;Esmaeili et al, 2019a;Maini, 1998;Zhang et al, 2017). Although unanimous agreement is not satisfied in this topic, a dominant part of experimental and modeling studies that have been published, have noticed the dependency of relative permeability in oil -water systems (Kro and Krw) on temperature (Esmaeili et al, 2019a;Esmaeili et al, 2019b;Li et al, 2014;Schembre, Tang, & Kovscek, 2005;Weinbrandt, Ramey Jr, & Casse, 1975).…”

“…Besides, some other models based on IFT as intermediate influencing parameters were developed by (Amaefule & Handy, 1982) and (Kumar, Torabzadeh, & Handy, 1985). To keep the work concise, a deep overview about different studies conducted in the literature to inspect the effect of temperature on relative permeability can be found in our prior published work (Nait Amar, Noureddine, Hemmati-Sarapardeh, & Shamshirband, 2019) and other relevant publications (Akhlaghinia et al, 2013;Ashrafi et al, 2012;Esmaeili et al, 2019a;Esmaeili et al, 2019b;Zhang et al, 2017).…”

“…Therefore, in recent years, addressing these issues by establishing cheap and simple-to-use methods to gain the impact of temperature on Kr has triggered a huge amount of scientific inquiry. (Zhang et al, 2017), (Mosavat, Mohsenzadeh, & Al-Wahaibi, 2016), (Torabi, Mosavat, & Zarivnyy, 2016), and (Bennion, Thomas, Schulmeister, & Ma, 2006) are among the well-known predictive correlations that consider the temperature influence on Kr in oil -water systems. A summary of the aforementioned correlations is given in Table 1.…”

“…Summary of the important correlations for temperature-based oil/water relative permeability prediction. (Bennion et al, 2006), , (Torabi et al, 2016) and (Zhang et al, 2017) are.…”