Relative Permeability Measurements of Rocks from the Texas Gulf Coast Geopressured-Geothermal Reservoir at Low Free Gas Saturations
- Key words
- Reservoir Engineering; Geopressure; USA; Texas Gulf Coast; Rock Permeability; Gas Saturation
- Location
- Texas
- Conference
- Geothermal Resources Council Transactions
- Year
- 1980
- Session
- Permeability; Geopressured reservoirs
- Language
- English
Abstract
The test procedure and apparatus were developed to measure accurate wetting phase relative permeability of rock samples at free gas saturations lower than maximum irreducible using a brine solution and methane gas. The rock samples used in this study were extracted from geopressured, geothermal reservoir underlying Brazoria County, Texas. The investigated items included the effects of hysteresis, or horizontal and vertical bedding planes, of magnitude of absolute permeability and the initial fluctuation of relative permeability with increasing free gas saturation.
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