Determining permeability of tight rock samples using inverse modeling

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1803-1811

  Finsterle, Stefan ^a,b   Persoff, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODELLING; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; ROCK;

GAS FLOW; GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIR; KLINKENBERG SLIP FACTOR; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY;

ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; GAS PERMEABILITY; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POROSITY; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

ABSOLUTE PERMEABILITY; DIFFERENT PRESSURES; ESTIMATION UNCERTAINTIES; GEYSERS GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LOW POROSITY ROCKS; MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PARAMETER CORRELATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030794350     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97WR01200     Document Type: Article

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