X-ray CT and hydraulic evidence for a relationship between fracture conductivity and adjacent matrix porosity

Engineering Geology

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 139-145

  Karpyn, Z T ^a   Alajmi, A ^b   Radaelli, F ^c   Halleck, P M ^a   Grader, A S ^d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^c AGIP SpA   (Italy)

^d INGRAIN ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Flow in fractures; Fracture aperture; Rock mechanics; X ray computed tomography

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRAULICS; HYDROCARBONS; LIQUIDS; LITHOLOGY; MECHANICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PHASE INTERFACES; POROSITY; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS; SCANNING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TOMOGRAPHY; TWO PHASE FLOW; VOLCANIC ROCKS; WATER INJECTION;

ADJACENT LAYERS; ADJACENT MATRIXES; BEREA SANDSTONES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; CT SCANNERS; CT VALUES; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATIONS; EXTRACTION PROCESSES; FLOW IN FRACTURES; FRACTURE APERTURE; FRACTURE CONDUCTIVITIES; FRACTURE INTERFACES; FRACTURE PROPAGATIONS; FRACTURED ROCKS; HIGH PERMEABILITIES; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HYDROCARBON RECOVERIES; MASS TRANSPORTS; MATRIX POROSITIES; MULTI-PHASE FLUID FLOWS; NATURAL OILS; OIL INJECTIONS; PERMEABILITY LAYERS; PHASE FLOWS; PHASE FLUIDS; POROSITY LAYERS; PRIMARY PRODUCTIONS; THREE DIMENSIONS; TWO-PHASE FLOWS; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY CT;

FRACTURE;

BEREA SANDSTONE; FRACTURE APERTURE; FRACTURE FLOW; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; LITHOLOGY; MASS TRANSPORT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY;

EID: 58249097384     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2008.06.017     Document Type: Article

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