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This chapter describes the physics of how oil, gas, and water interact with each other and the rock. The basic concepts of wettability, capillary pressure, and relative permeability are important. This is knowledge required to understand how reservoirs behave. Physical processes also control the distribution of oil and water in a reservoir, and an understanding of these will help the production geologist to estimate the in-place hydrocarbon volumes.
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| image = Oil-field-production-geology.png
| series = Memoirs
| title = Oil Field Production Geology
| part = The Production Geologist and the Reservoir
| chapter = Reservoir Fluids
| frompg = 29
| topg = 35
| author = Mike Shepherd
| link = http://archives.datapages.com/data/specpubs/memoir91/CHAPTER04/CHAPTER04.HTM
| pdf = http://archives.datapages.com/data/specpubs/memoir91/CHAPTER04/IMAGES/CHAPTER04.PDF
| store = http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=788
| isbn = 0891813721
}}
This article describes the physics of how oil, gas, and water interact with each other and the rock. The basic concepts of wettability, capillary pressure, and relative permeability are important. This is knowledge required to understand how reservoirs behave. Physical processes also control the distribution of oil and water in a reservoir, and an understanding of these will help the production geologist to estimate the in-place hydrocarbon volumes.
==Wettability==
==Wettability==