This paper describes the mechanism by which the displacement is effected. Oil is produced as a result of its displacement from the reservoir by either gas or water. The displacing fluids normally available are gas and water. In certain conditions the entrapping water may advance into the oil zone and displace the oil.
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Buckley, S.E. and Leverett, M.C. Mechanism of Fluid Displacement in Sands
This paper describes the mechanism by which the displacement is effected. Oil is produced as a result of its displacement from the reservoir by either gas or water. The displacing fluids normally available are gas and water. In certain conditions the entrapping water may advance into the oil zone and displace the oil.
This paper describes the mechanism by which the displacement is effected. Oil is produced as a result of its displacement from the reservoir by either gas or water. The displacing fluids normally available are gas and water. In certain conditions the entrapping water may advance into the oil zone and displace the oil.
By S. E. BUCKLEY AND M. C. LEVERETT, * MEMBERS A.I.M.E.
(New York Meeting. February 1941) THE production of oil is accomplished as a result of its displacement from the reservoir by either gas or water, and the amount of oil re- covery is limited by the extent to which the displacing gas or water accumulates. This paper describes the mechanism by which the displacement is effected and the advantages of water over gas as a displacing agent. In the light of the results of experimental observations of the flow of mixtures of oil and/or gas and/or water through sands, certain conclusions are drawn relative to the changing character of the displacement as depletion proceeds, and on the effects of the properties of the fluids and of producing conditions on the ultimate oil recovery. INTRODUCTION Crude oil has no inherent ability to expel itself from the pores of the reservoir rocks in which it is found; rather, it must be forcibly ejected or displaced by the ac- cumulation of other fluids. Accordingly, a knowledge of the mechanism by which one fluid is displaced by another is essential to an understanding of the fundamental process by which oil is recovered. The displacing fluids normally available are gas and water, either or both of which may exist originally associated with the oil in a potentially usable form or may be supplied to the reservoir from external sources. Gas is present in most oil reser- voirs. If the quantity is relatively small, it may exist originally completely dissolved in the oil, but if the quantity exceeds that which may be held in solution by the oil at the prevailing pressure, the excess will be found in the free state. Most reservoir Manuscript received at the office of the Institute Jan. 6, 1941. Issued as T.P. 1337 in PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY, May 1941. "\ * Humble Oil & Refining Co .. Houston. Texas. sands appear to contain some water,! and in the majority of fields the oil is trapped in the structure and held over water. In certain conditions the entrapping water may ad- vance into the oil zone and displace the oil therefrom. This paper describes in a qualitative manner somt of the characteristics of the displacement of oil by either gas or water, with an attempt to elucidate somewhat the mechanism by which such displacement is effected. ROLE OF DISSOLVED GAS When the pressure on an oil containing dissolved gas is reduced to the saturation or bubble-point pressure, gas escapes from solution and expands, imparting to the oil- gas mixture a high degree of expansibility and causing it to flow in the direction of reduced pressure. This expansibility has frequently been attributed to the oil; closer analysis, however, reveals that as gas escapes from solution the oil phase actually contracts. Hence, it is the accumulation and expansion of the liberated gas that supplies the propelling force for the oil. It has been shown experimentallyZ-5 that within certain limits a sand containing oil, gas and water will permit the simultaneous flow of all three; the readiness with which they may flow depends upon the character- istics of the sand, of each of the fluids, and upon the relative amounts of the fluids in the sand. Thus, in the initial stages of production by the mechanism of dissolved gas drive, the liberated gas is present in the sand in low concentration and is unable to 1 References are at the end of the paper. 10 7 r08 MECHANISM OF FLUID DISPLACEMENT IN SANDS flow because of the low permeability of the sand to gas, with the result that the initial produced gas-oil ratio is substantially equal to the dissolved ratio. As the gas saturation
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Water Saturation. Per cent FIG. I.-EFFECT OF SATURATION ON RELA- TIVE PERMEABILITIES TO WATER AND OIL IN UNCONSOLIDATED SANDS. in the sand increases, owing both to augmentation by the release of additional gas from the oil and by expansion of the pre- viously liberated gas as a result of further decline in reservoir pressure, the permeabil- ity of the sand to oil rapidly decreases while the permeability to gas simultaneously increases, permitting the gas to flow along with the oil and escape. The period of low produced gas-oil ratio is therefore followed by a period of rapidly increasing ratio dur- ing which a major part of the original store of dissolved gas is dissipated. As exhaus- tion of the reservoir proceeds, the permeabil- ity of the sand to gas continues to increase and the permeability to oil to decrease; however, in the final stages of depletion the decline in reservoir pressure offsets the changes in permeability by virtue of the fact that whereas the volume of gas flowing in the sand per unit of oil flowing is still increasing continuously, the actual weight or amount of gas contained in unit volume is decreasing, with the result that the produced gas-oil ratio, with the gas volume corrected to a standard base pressure, passes through a maximum and thereafter declines. Production from a reservoir by the mecha- nism of dissolved-gas drive alone is thus characterized by low initial gas-oil ratio, followed by rapid increase to a maximum ratio, with a declining ratio as the supply of gas and the pressure approach exhaustion. This mechanism is fundamentally ineffi- cient and the amount of oil that can be recovered thereby is seriously limited. This inefficiency arises from the following conditions: 1. The oil saturation decreases and the gas saturation increases simultaneously and more or less uniformly throughout the reservoir. 2. The displacing fluid is thus able to compete for production on an equal basis with the oil. 3. Since the gas is disseminated through- out the oil sand, it cannot be excluded by mechanical means from the oil-producing wells. It is thus a natural and unavoidable result that by this mechanism the gas is completely dissipated, leaving in the reservoir no force other than gravity to expel the remaining oil. Production by gravity drainage alone, although in some reservoirs it may in time lead to substantial oil recovery, is usually exceedingly slow. DYNAMICS OF DISPLACEMENT BY FREE GAS OR BY WATER Under certain conditions, particularly at very low rates of production and in highly permeable sands, vertical segrega- tion brought about by gravitational forces may be superimposed upon the dissolved- gas drive mechanism, leading to the forma- tion in the upper part of a structure of "free gas" zones, which in reality are zones of higher gas saturation and lower oil saturation than exist in the lower part of the reservoir. Such segregation leads to the S. E. BUCK.LEY AND M. C. LEVERETT 10 9 possibility of some degree of mechanical selection in production. If the areas of high gas saturation can be made to increase in extent through con- tinued segregation or by the return of produced gas to the reservoir, and con- trolled by production of only the wells low on structure, a displacement of oil in the reservoir may be effected during which the area of high gas saturation will encroach on the area of high oil saturation until the latter becomes too small to permit effective control of the gas production. During the final stages of production, the gas again will be dissipated, but the deferment of such dissipation and the increased gas ac- cumulation brought about thereby will increase correspondingly the quantity of oil produced. The mechanism by which the area of high gas saturation invades the area of high oil saturation is very similar to that by which water encroaches into and displaces oil from a sand. In either case the displacing fluid moves from a region of high saturation into one of lower saturation and in so doing removes oil and converts the invaded region to one higher in saturation of the displacing fluid. It should be borne con- tinuously in mind that whether the dis- placing fluid be gas or water it does not behave as a piston ejecting oil from the pores and occupying the space vacated, but that in all cases both the oil and the displacing fluid flow together and simul- taneously through the same pores. Dis- placement, therefore, can never be complete. The actual amount of oil displacement during the process depends upon the rela- tive ease with which the two fluids can move. As mentioned previously, the readiness with which a fluid flows through a sand increases with its saturation in the sand. Hence, as displacement begins, the oil saturation in the sand may be high and the saturation of the displacing fluid may be low; oil will flow readily and the dis- placing fluid to a small extent only, if at all. At this stage, the displacing fluid will be almost 100 per cent effective. As displace- ment proceeds the permeability of the sand to oil will continuously decrease
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E il 60 .. iii <ft go f 2 .. g ..!'20 Sw. Water Saturation: Per cent FIG. 2.-fw AND dfw/dSw AS FUNCTION OF SW FOR UNCONSOLIDATED SAND. and the permeability to the displacing fluid will continuously increase, until during the latter part of the process large volumes of dis[>lacing fluid will effect re- moval of only a slight amount of additional oil. The oil recovery obviously is determined by the availability of the displacing fluid and by its net accumulation during the displacement process. At this stage in the process, the net rate of accumulation of the displacing fluid, which is equal to the net oil displacement, is proportional to the difference between the rate at which the displacing fluid enters the sand and that at which it leaves. If we confine our attention to unidirectional flow through a small element of sand within a continuous sand body, the foregoing may be expressed algebraically by a material balance equation, as follows:
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ae u cpA au 8 where SD = saturation of displacing fluid () = time u = distance along path of flow qT = total rate of flow through section 110 MECHANISM OF FLUID DISPLACEMENT IN SANDS cf> = porosity A = cross-sectional area iD = fraction of flowing stream comprising displacing fluid This equation may be transformed to ( au) qT (aiD) ao SD = cf>A as-; 6 which states that the rate of advance of a plane that has a certain fixed saturation is proportional to the change in composition of the flowing stream caused by a small change in the saturation of the displacing fluid. If, for simplicity, we neglect for the time being effects due to gravity and to capillary pressure differences, i D, the fraction of displacing fluid in the flowing stream at any point, is related to the properties of the system by the equation I fD = 1+ KO/J.D KD/J.o where Ko and KD are the permeabilities of the sand to oil and to the displacing fluid, and /J.o and /J.D are the viscosities of the two, respectively. Since the relations be- tween the relative permeabilities of a sand to oil, gas, and water and the respective saturations have been determined experi- mentally for several sands, including a consolidated sandstone,2-6 it is possible from equation 3 and the experimentally determined permeability ratios to derive the relation betweeniD and SD and thence b aiD f . etween aSD and SD or a given system. In the absence of capillary and gravitational effects, i D for a given sand and fluids varies only slightly with factors other than SD, and it may be assumed that under these d . aiD. I . I I d con ItJons aS D IS a so umque y re ate to SD, being constant for fixed SD. Referring back to equation 2, it may be seen that a plane at which the saturation i[' SD moves along the path of flow at a constant I I qT diD 'fh b . ve OClty equa to - - _... e aS1C equa- cf>A dSD tion relating position along the path of flow, saturation, and time then may be written A =.!l!:... (diD) AO u cf>A dS D or, in terms of QT, the total amount of displacing fluid entering the system: A _ QT diD U - cf>A dS D [5] As an example of the application of this equation to the qualitative determination of the course of a displacement, a typical example will be worked out for the satura- tion distributions during the flooding of a sand section by water. Fig. I shows the experimentally deter- mined relation between K o, K"" and S'" for a typical unconsolidated sand con- taining only water and oil. Fig. 2 shows the relation between i", and S'" and between :t and S'" assuming the ratio of the viscosity of the oil to that of water to be 2.0. Fig. 3 shows the initial vertical distribu- tion of water and oil in the sand, calculated from experimentally determined relations between capillary pressure and saturation and assuming the following: sand permea- bility, I darcy; sand porosity, 25 per cent; interfacial tension w - 0, 35 dynes per cm.; density difference w - 0, 0.3 gm. per cubic centimeter. The water saturation at any point in the sand after the entry of a quantity of water Ql is obtained graphically by laying off at any saturation SWI on the curve of saturation vs. distance shown in Fig. 3 a line a parallel to the distance, u, axis and equal in length to ~ ~ : ~ : 1 1 . The ends of a succession of such lines are then joined by a smooth curve representing the new curve for water saturation vs. distance. The construc- tion of the new curve is illustrated in Fig. 3. S. E. BUCKLEY AND M. C. LEVERETT III The new computed curve is S-shaped and is triple-valued over a portion of its length, obviously a physical impossibility. The correct interpretation is that a portion though in the regions of gradual transition of saturation with distance the capillary pressure gradient may be small in compari- son to the other forces, at any saturation
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i (f) 20 0 5 10 15 20 25 U, Distance: Arbitrary Units FIG. 3.-CALCULATION OF SATURATION HISTORY DURING WATER FLOOD. of the curve is imaginary and that the real saturation-distance curve is discontinuous. The imaginary part of the curve is dotted in Fig. 3 and the real distribution curve is shown by the solid line labeled Q!, dis- continuous at Uj. The position of the plane Ul is determined by a material balance, the shaded area between the original and the new saturation curve being equal to In any actual displacement of oil from sand by gas or water, no such saturation discontinuity as that indicated in Fig. 3 can exist in a uniform sand. The capillary forces arising from the interfacial tension between oil and the displacing fluid and the curvature of the interfaces in the sand tend in all cases to maintain uniform saturation throughout any continuous homogeneous sand body. The degree of equalization obtained depends upon the combined effects of the capillary pressure gradient, gravitational pressure gradient, and the impressed pressure gradient. AI- discontinuity the capillary pressure gradi- ent would become exceedingly large, with the result that the plane of saturation discontinuity would be converted into a zone of more gradual transition in satura- tion, the width of the zone depending for a given system primarily upon the rate of displacement. For many cases a slight rounding off of the corners of the curve illustrated in Fig. 3 will represent a reason- able approximation to the conditions encountered in practice. INITIAL AND SUBORDINATE PHASES OF DISPLACEMENT Fig. 3 indicates that at a plane in the sand some distance away from the point of entry of the water, no substantial change in the water saturation results as the water first advances. Then a very rapid rise in water saturation takes place as the transition zone reaches and passes the plane. This period of rapid increase of water saturation may be considered the initial 112 MECHANISM OF FLUID DISPLACEMENT IN SANDS phase of the displacement. During this phase the displacement is quite effective; most of the water reaching the plane re- mains in the sand, ejecting oil. Following
ceases and the oil that remains is unrecover- able. The quantity of unrecoverable oil has been referred to as the residual oil and is a useful index to the recovery efficiency. 6 220% 8Z5% 75.0%
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Height Above Bottom of Oil Zone: Feet FIG. 4.-SATURATION HISTORY OF OIL-BEARING SAND UNDER WATER FLOOD. this period further increase in water satura- tion is much more gradual. This final period of gradual water accumulation may be termed the subordinate phase of the dis- placement. During this period water flows more readily than does the oil, so that relatively large volumes of water flowing through the sand effect the removal of only small and continuously decreasing volumes of oil. The course of a typical water flood is illustrated in Fig. 4, in which curves are shown for the water saturation-distance distribution at successive periods during the displacement. The gradual increase in water saturation and decrease in oil satura- tion during the subordinate phase of the displacement may be seen from the progres- sively increasing volumes of water required to effect minor saturation changes during the later stages. As the ratio of the oil permeability of the sand to the water permeability approaches zero with decreas- ing oil saturation, flow of oil eventually CONDITIONS AFFECTING RELATIVE MAGNITUDES OF INITIAL AND SUBORDINATE PHASES OF DISPLACEMENT Viscosity.-Since the rate of advance of a plane of given water saturation is directly proportional to and since f w is related to the ratio of the viscosity of oil to that of water as well as to the relative permeabili- ties of the sand to oil and to water, the course of the curves of water saturation vs. distance is influenced by the oil viscosity. The more viscous the oil, the less readily it flows under a given pressure gradient. Increased oil viscosity therefore results in the attainment of a lower water saturation during the initial phase of the displacement as well as a more gradual approach to the residual oil saturation during the subordi- nate phase of the displacement. The cal- culated effect of the ratio of the viscosity of the oil to that of water on the water satura- tion reached during the initial phase of the s. E. BUCKLEY AND M. C. LEVERETT II3 displacement in a typical sand is shown in Fig. 5. The effect of viscosity is best illustrated by the differences between displacement by free gas, such as occurs with an expanding gas cap or as a result of gas injection in gas- drive operations, and that by water drive. In Fig. 6 are shown the gas saturation- distance curves after the admission of various amounts of gas, calculated for a typical sand assuming a viscosity ratio of gas to oil of 0.009. During the initial phase of the displacement the gas saturation attains a value of only about IS per cent of the pore space as contrasted to a compara- ble water saturation of about 60 per cent for an oil of the same viscosity. Effect of Initial Fluid Saturation.-If before invasion by the displacing fluid the saturation of the displacing fluid in the sand exceeds that which would be obtained during the initial phase of the displacement, this phase will be absent and only the subordinate phase will occur. Such a condition would be encountered in a water-drive operation where the original or connate-water content of the sand is excessive and in practice is most likely to be met in tight sands, with viscous oils, or in thin oil sands immediately overlying water. It is not possible to produce oil free from water in the part of the sand where this condition prevails. In gas-drive operations such a condition is found if prior to the injection of gas the reservoir pressure has declined to such an extent as to permit the accumulation of gas released from solution in the oil to an amount exceeding the saturation that would be attained during the initial phase of the displacement. Such a condition is almost invariably encountered in gas-drive operations inaugurated late in the life of a field or after primary exhaustion. Fig. 7 illustrates the variations in produced gas- oil ratio that would occur under: (a) dis- placement by gas at the original reservoir pressure, and (b) displacement by gas after appreciable decline in reservoir pressure. In the first instance the produced gas-oil ratio remains equal to that dissolved in the ~ J O O & , ~ --- r-- 2 4 6 Oil Viscosity / Water Viscosity 8 10 FIG. 5.-EFFECT OF OIL VISCOSITY ON EFFI- CIENCY OF INITIAL PHASE OF WATER FLOOD. oil until the gas front reaches a producing well, when a sudden increase in the ratio occurs during the initial phase of the dis- placement, followed thereafter by a con- tinuous increase in ratio. In the second instance the produced gas-oil ratio follows the typical course of production by dis- solved-gas drive prior to the start of the gas injection. The injection of gas halts the natural increase in ratio until such time as the injected gas reaches the producing wells, when the gas-oil ratio begins to increase continuously at an accelerating rate. The initial phase is absent and only the subordi- nate phase of the displacement occurs. No generalizations are possible concern- ing the advantages of either method of operation over the other; however, for any given set of conditions it should be possible to determine the relationship between gas-oil ratio, pressure, and production with sufficient accuracy to determine an economically sound program of operation. Capillary and Gravitational Effects.- Capillary forces tend to oppose the for- mation of saturation discontinuities in a 114 MECHANISM OF FLUID DISPLACEMENT IN SANDS homogeneous sand, while gravitational forces tend to promote complete vertical segregation of oil, gas, and water. Thus in any reservoir in which water is advancing 60 degrees of heterogeneity are encountered in natural reservoirs, ranging from more or less definite sand layers, each relatively uniform within itself but different in tex- i ~ Legend: t--- ~ a. 40 '0 ~ ~ 30 ~ ~ -- Porosity = 20 % Viscosity Gas I Viscosity Oil = .009 o = Volume of Gas (Measured Under t--- Reservoir Conditions) Which has Invaded Unit Crosssection of Oil Sand. . ~ ~ 2 0 ~ ~ 10 0=107 r\ 0=20./ '\ 0=30 J '-0=40 \ 100 200 300 400 \
Distance \ 600 700 800 900 1000 FIG. 6.-SATURATION HISTORY OF OIL-BEARING SAND UNDER GAS DISPLACEMENT. upward or gas downward to displace oil, the capillary and gravitational effects oppose each other and tend somewhat to cancel. At high rates of displacement the frictional forces may exceed both, with the result that their effects are ob:;;cured and the flow is regulated primarily by the relative permeabilities and viscosities as was indi- cated in equation 3. At extremely low displacement rates, however, the frictional forces may be negligible and the balance between capillary and gravitational forces control the saturation distribution. In this case the vertical distribution in the reservoir may remain substantially similar to that obtained under static conditions, in which the capillary pressure is constant at a given depth and the entire reservoir is in capillary-gravitational equilibrium. 7 CAPILLARY EFFECTS IN HETEROGENEOUS SANDS The effects of capillary forces are most noticeable in the production by water drive of reservoirs containing intercommunicat- ing sands of variable permeability. All ture and permeability from adjacent beds, to conditions such as more permeable or less permeable zones or lenses within a continuous sand. These lenses may be so small and so numerous as to constitute, together with the enclosing sand, a bed of very irregular properties, or they may be large and fairly uniform within them- selves. Since the recovery from the reservoir as a whole depends upon the efficiency with which all parts of the sand are flushed, a study of the mechanism by which water penetrates and floods irregular sand bodies is extremely important. Prior to production the reservoir may be assumed to be in capillary equilibrium; Le., at the same horizontal level the capillary pressure is the same in all sands and the capillary pressure and gravity are balanced vertically. At equilibrium the water satura- tion throughout the reservoir is not uni- form, but at the same level is greater in the finer, less permeable sands. When water advances into the reservoir as a result of oil production, the level of zero capillary pres- sure rises, creating a tendency for the s. E. BUCKLEY AND M. C. LEVERETT water saturation throughout the reservoir to increase in order to attain a new balance between capillary pressure and gravity. The relationship between capillary pres- effIciency to the rate of production, or to any of the other pertinent variables. The factors involved, however, may be illus- trated in a qualitative fashion by consider- OC 0- & E C ., I / .sdl 1----+----+----+--- 0.,_ 0 a.-t--J-----i t. g / .2 C 0:: (5 , <n o <.!) .Q C 0:: (5 , <n o <.!) Produclion a I Low Gas-Oil Ralio Prior to Time Gas Front Reaches Producing Wells a. o.!!! .8_ fO/ 0 _0 6-
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Amount of Oil Prod\lced b j / / FIG. 7.-VARIATIONS IN GAS-OIL RATIO DURING DISPLACEMENT OF OIL BY GAS. a. Displacement at high pressure. b. Displacement at low pressure. sure, water saturation, and permeability is such that the tendency is for the fine sands always to maintain higher water saturations at equilibrium than the ad- jacent coarse sands at the same level. The complexity of natural reservoirs pro- hibits the formulation of any single quan- titative expression relating over-all flushing ing the behavior of a small lens of tight, fine sand embedded in a coarse, more permeable sand at some distance above the original water table. If the rate of production is such that the water table rises slowly enough to permit the maintenance of capil- lary equilibrium, the water saturation in the coarse sand will gradually increase II6 MECHANISM OF FLUID DISPLACEMENT IN SANDS simultaneously with the rise in the water table. As the water saturation in the adjacent coarse sand increases, the tight lens will imbibe water and expel oil, both b- High Production Rate FIG. S.-EFFECT OF PROD1.:cTIOK RATE 0" FLOODING OF OIL BY WATER FRO,,[ A I.my- PERMEABILITY LENS. by absorbing water at the bottom and expelling oil at the top and by counterflow of water and oil over the entire surface of the lens, tending always to maintain a higher water saturation than that reached by the surrounding coarse sand. Thus the tight sand will at all times be more com- pletely flushed than the coarse sand and will become depleted while oil is still flowing in the surrounding sand. The higher the rate of production the more nearly the advancing water table assumes the sharp front described in the first part of this paper. Instead of a con- tinuous increase in water saturation, no sensible increase takes place until just be- fore the advancing water front reaches a given position, whereupon the water satu- ration rises rapidly during the initial phase of the displacement. Under such conditions the tight lens just considered will have no opportunity to imbibe water from the beginning of production, but will become somewhat suddenly surrounded by a zone of high water saturation when it is reached by the flood. Oil may then escape from the tight sand exclusively by counterflow of water and oil between the two sands, an exchange that is slow at best. Furthermore, any oil that escapes from the tight lens may enter the surrounding coarse sand so slowly and into a region of such high water satura- tion that this oil will not be recovered. Thus, although in time the lens undoubtedly will expel its oil and become substantially water-saturated. as a practical matter it may be considered that the oil was trapped and lost. The conditions under both low and high displacement rates are illustrated in Fig. 8. For this particular situation, it is evident that the slower the rate of water advance, the higher the recovery. It is readily apparent that in any natural reservoir composed of heterogeneous sands the over-all recovery is related to the rate of advance of the water. The magni- tude of the effect depends upon the degree and nature of the irregularities of the sand and upon the viscosity of the oil. REFERENCES 1. R. J. Schilthuis: Trans. A.I.M.E. (1938) 127. I9<;). 2. R. D. Wyckoff and H. G. Botset: Physics (1936) 7. 325. 3. H. G. Botset: Trans. A.I.M.E. (1940) 136.91. 4. M. C. Leverett: Trans. A.I.M.R (1939) 132. 149. 5. M. C. Leverett and W. B. Lewis: Trans. A.I.M.E. (1941) 142.107. 6. T. V. Moore: A Review of the Principles of Oil Reservoir Performance. Amer. Petro lnst. loth Mid-year Meeting. Fort Worth. 1940. 7. M. C. Leverett: Trans. A.I.M.E. (1941) 142.152.