The Effect of Temperature on Absolute Permeability

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Abstract: Absolute and relative permeabilities have been traditionally measured at conditions of room temperature. In his recent Ph.D. work, Richard M. Weinbrandt (1) has investigated the effect of temperature on relative permeabilities measurements, by measuring relative permeabilities for five Boise sandstones at room temperature and at 175 degrees F., and found significant variations. He also reported an important decrease of the absolute permeabilities between these two temperatures. However, very little work has been done on the effect of temperature on absolute permeability: his data on absolute permeability only show two temperature levels, and a single type of samples has been used, namely highly permeable Boise sandstone.The objective of the present work was to conduct new experiments with the same equipment, on two different types of sandstones. Absolute permeability variation was continuously recorded as a function of temperature, for a wide range of temperatures (from room temperature up to 315 degrees F. The fluid used was distilled, filtered, deaerated water. Caution was taken to make sure that water would remain in the liquid state, by holding an appropriate backpressure. An overburden pressure of 2000 psi was held around the core. All results were similar. They compared with R. M. Weinbrandt's previous work at room temperature and 175 degrees F, and indicated smooth variation of absolute permeability for the whole temperature range.

Type of resource	text
Date created	1972

Author	Casse, Francis J.
Primary advisor	Ramey Jr., Henry J.
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of Petroleum Engineering

Subject	School of Earth Energy & Environmental Sciences
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/dr329hp4099

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Preferred Citation: Casse, Francis J. (1972). The Effect of Temperature on Absolute Permeability. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/dr329hp4099

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