The Effect of Clays on the Permeability of Reservoir Sands to Waters of Different Saline Contents
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...The response of sandstone permeability to low salinity water flooding was investigated by Baptist & Sweeney (1954) who showed that the amount and type of clay content was important....
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...Baptis and Sweeney [7] used petroleum reservoir sands to measure air and water permeability, focusing on the type and the amount of clay....
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...According to Baptist and Sweeney’s 1954 study of petroleum reservoir sands in Wyo ing fields (Table 2), sand with montmorillonite-illite mixed clay layers is much more sensitive to water co pared to sand ith kaolin an illite clays and therefore cause greater p rmeability reductions [47]....
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...For example, in clay-rich samples, permeability can be reduced by more than 80% after water saturation, compared with the initial air permeability [47]....
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...Permeability analyses of four samples of frontier sands [47]....
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...According to Baptist and Sweeney’s 1954 study of petroleum reservoir sands in Wyoming fields (Table 2), sand with montmorillonite‐illite mixed clay layers is much more sensitive to water compared to sand with kaolin and illite clays and therefore cause greater permeability reductions [47]....
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"The Effect of Clays on the Permeabi..." refers background or methods in this paper
...The permeability value of a porous sample is a constant when the flowing fluid is either liquid or gas, provided however, that certain conditions are fulfilled ( Muskat, 1949, p. 138 )....
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...This equation, known as Darcy's law, is also used to calculate gaseous permeability if the volumetric rate of flow is measured at mean pressure ( Muskat, 1949, p. 136 )....
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