An improved empirical permeability estimator from mercury injection for tight clastic rocks

Petrophysics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 186-190

  Dastidar, Rahul ^a   Sondergeld, Carl H ^a   Rai, Chandra S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure; Mercury injection capillary pressure; Permeability; Tight sands

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; DATA ACQUISITION; LINEAR REGRESSION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MERCURY (METAL); POROSITY; ROCKS;

GEOMETRIC MEAN; INJECTION DATA; TIGHT SANDS;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 34250740838     PISSN: 15299074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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