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Saturation and Capillary Pressure

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Fundamentals of Reservoir Rock Properties

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Saturation is defined as the ratio of the fluid volume in the porous medium to the pore volume of the rock. That means, saturation is the proportion of interrelated aperture full by a specified phase. For a gas-oil-water system. Therefore, the following formulas show the saturation ratio for every single phase in the porous medium

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  1. Department of Petroleum Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Seri Iskender, Malaysia

    Tarek Al-Arbi Omar Ganat

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Ganat, T.AA.O. (2020). Saturation and Capillary Pressure. In: Fundamentals of Reservoir Rock Properties. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28140-3_5

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