Characterization of the pore structure of reservoir rocks with the aid of serial sectioning analysis, mercury porosimetry and network simulation

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 773-789

  Tsakiroglou, Christos D ^a   Payatakes, Alkiviades C ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure; Fractal dimension; Mercury porosimetry; Network connectivity; Permeability; Pore network; Pore size; Pore structure; Serial tomography; Spatial correlations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FRACTALS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PORE SIZE; POROSITY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

MERCURY POROSIMETRY;

WATER RESOURCES;

HYDROGEOLOGY; PERMEABILITY; PORE SPACE; RESERVOIR ROCK;

EID: 0034029968     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0309-1708(00)00002-6     Document Type: Article

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