SPE Reservoir Engineering, Vol.9, No.1, 67-72, 1994
PSEUDOFUNCTIONS AND EXTENDED DIETZ THEORY FOR GRAVITY-SEGREGATED DISPLACEMENT IN STRATIFIED RESERVOIRS
This paper develops a new vertical equilibrium (VE) theory that accounts for gravity-segregated displacement in stratified reservoirs and is expressed either in terms of pseudofunctions or as an extended Dietz model. The theory includes reservoir stratification and capillary effects. An example calculation based on field data compares favorably with the more general numerical simulation.