Suez Canal University Enhanced Oil Recovery

Faculty of Pet. and Min. Eng. Sheet 2

1. Calculate the pressure drop required to displace an oil globule, filling a
pore cavity of an average diameter of 50 m , into a neighboring
pore throat of 10 m average diameter in a porous material. Assume
that this porous material is strongly water-wet and the interfacial
tension between oil and the displacing water is 0 dynes!cm.
2. A gas bubble of 5 m average "equivalent sphere# diameter is confined
between water in a $0 m diameter pore cavity and oil in a 5 m
diameter pore throat. %he gas!water surface tension and contact
angle are &0 dynes!cm and 10' ,respectively. %he gas!oil surface
tension and contact angle are $ dynes!cm and $5',respectively.
i (ind the pressure values in gas and water phases, if pressure in the
oil phase is one atm.
ii )*plain how the gas bubble can be released.
!ith "est !ishes
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