Permeability characterization of natural compaction bands using core flooding experiments and three-dimensional image-based analysis: Comparing and contrasting the results from two different methods

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 27-49

  Deng, Shang ^a   Zuo, Lin ^a,b   Aydin, Atilla ^a   Dvorkin, Jack ^a,c   Mukerji, Tapan ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^c INGRAIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FLOODS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ROCKS; TOMOGRAPHY;

BED-PARALLEL COMPACTION BANDS; HIGH-ANGLE COMPACTION BANDS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LATTICE BOLTZMANN FLOW; PERMEABILITY AND POROSITIES; PERMEABILITY REDUCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

BACKSCATTER; CALIBRATION; COMPACTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FLOODING; HOST ROCK; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JURASSIC; LABORATORY METHOD; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; SANDSTONE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84924004843     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/07071413211     Document Type: Article

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