The Amott test is one of the most widely used empirical wettability measurements for reservoir cores in petroleum engineering. The method combines two spontaneous imbibition measurements and two forced displacement measurements. This test defines two different indices: the Amott water index () and the Amott oil index ().
The two Amott indices are often combined to give the Amott–Harvey index. It is a number between −1 and 1 describing wettability of a rock in drainage processes. It is defined as:
These two indices are obtained from special core analysis (SCAL) experiments (porous plate or centrifuge) by plotting the capillary pressure curve as a function of the water saturation as shown on figure 1:
with is the water saturation for a zero capillary pressure during the imbibition process, is the irreducible water saturation and is the residual oil saturation after imbibition.
with is the oil saturation for a zero capillary pressure during the secondary drainage process, is the irreducible water saturation and is the residual non-wetting phase saturation after imbibition.
A rock is defined as:
| Amott-Harvey index | ||
|---|---|---|
| Name | Lower bound | Upper bound |
| Oil wet | -1 | -0.3 |
| Weakly oil wet | -0.3 | 0 |
| Weakly water wet | 0 | 0.3 |
| Water wet | 0.3 | 1 |
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