Fuentes, el reventón energético

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2017): Fuentes, el reventón energético
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Experimental methodology for two and three phase relative permeability estimation through history match

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  • Andrés F. Ortiz Meneses,
  • Luis Felipe Carrillo Moreno,
  • Jorge Alberto Rojas Plata
Andrés F. Ortiz Meneses
Universidad Industrial de Santander.
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Luis Felipe Carrillo Moreno
Universidad Industrial de Santander.
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Jorge Alberto Rojas Plata
Ecopetrol.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18273/revfue.v15n1-2017007

Published 2017-06-01

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Ortiz Meneses, A. F., Carrillo Moreno, L. F., & Rojas Plata, J. A. (2017). Experimental methodology for two and three phase relative permeability estimation through history match. Fuentes, El reventón energético, 15(1), 75–85. https://doi.org/10.18273/revfue.v15n1-2017007

Abstract

This paper presents the development of a new methodology for relative permeabilities estimation, through the match of the simulation results with the experimental data, obtained from unsteady state displacements. The development of the simulationoptimization tool, in Matlab environment, necessary for the automatic match is presented too. Six unsteady state displacements are performed; four of two-phase and two of three-phase, the experimental data obtained are analyzed using the proposed algorithm. The results from two-phase experiments are compared with those of Sendra software and it is found that the proposed algorithm has a good performance respect to this commercial tool. The results from the three-phase cases show that the algorithm achieves effectively estimate the relative permeability that produce the history match; It is found that there are differences with respect to the estimated curves for two-phase systems.

Keywords: Relative Permeability Three-Phase, Coreflooding Simulation, Numerical Optimization, History Match.

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