SPE Formation Evaluation, Vol.8, No.2, 112-116, 1993
CHARACTERIZING PERMEABILITY HETEROGENEITY IN CORE SAMPLES FROM STANDARD MISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT EXPERIMENTS
Permeability heterogeneity in porous media is evaluated with standard-pressure and production-history measurements from miscible displacements. Variations in the production history with mobility ratio and deviations of the pressure history from an idealized response provide complementary information on permeability heterogeneity. These heterogeneity tests have been developed to assist in core sample selection for unsteady-state relative permeability tests and other transient displacement tests.