The porosity-water saturation-conductivity relationship: An alternative to archie's model

Petrophysics

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 335-361

  Kennedy, David ^a  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archie; Percolation theory; Rock conductivity; Water saturation

Indexed keywords

PERCOLATION THEORY; ROCK CONDUCTIVITY; WATER SATURATION;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POROSITY; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); VOLUME FRACTION;

WATER;

EID: 36048998458     PISSN: 15299074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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