Pore Geometry of Carbonate Rocks as Revealed by Pore Casts and Capillary Pressure

N. C. Wardlaw

AAPG Bulletin

... of the method is discussed elsewhere (Taylor and Wardlaw, 1975). Mercury-injection and ejection pressure-volume curves were obtained using a Ruska porosimeter...

Carbon dioxide sealing capacity: Textural or compositional controls? A case study from the Oklahoma Panhandle*

Constantin Cranganu and Hamid Soleymani

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... from mercury injection-capillary pressure curves for sandstone: AAPG Bulletin, v. 76, no. 2, p. 191–198.Puckette, J., 2006, Naturally underpressured...

Issues with Gas Relative Permeability in Low-permeability Sandstones

Alan P. Byrnes

AAPG Special Volumes

... krg modeling at high water saturations. Confined mercury injection capillary pressure and coupled electrical resistance measurements on Mesaverde...

Caprock integrity determination at the Christina Lake Thermal Recovery Project, Alberta

Gary L. Prost, James Newsome

CSPG Bulletin

... 1171 psi (8.074 MPa) breakthrough pressure. Work was done by PetroTek, Salt Lake City. Mercury injection tests determine seal capacity by measuring...

Laboratory Experiment on CO2 Injection

Warno Husodo, Rahmat Sudibjo, Barry W. Walsh

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... as the lowest pressure level at which a miscible displacement occured. It was determined and predicted by using the slim tube method. The method has proven...

Petrophysical Properties of the Bima Batu Raja Carbonate Reservoir, Offshore N.W. Java

R. E. Crumb

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... work (Fig. 22). End-point saturations from mercury injection capillary pressure data are very much lower than end-point values from displacement...

Development of Tight Gas Sand Core Analysis Techniques for the Pinedale Field, Sublette County, Wyoming

John M. Dacy, Paul R. Martin, Robert H. Lee

AAPG Special Volumes

... for in resistivity log modeling for water saturation. Capillary pressure (Pc) was determined using both air–brine and mercury injection methods. Air–brine...

Using Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry to Identifying the Sample Size Effect on Pore Structure Characteristics of the Eagle Ford Shale, #42373 (2019).

Qiming Wang, Qinhong Hu,

Search and Discovery.com

...) Abstract Capable of working with different sample sizes, mercury injection capillary pressure (MICP) is a common technique used for characterizing...

Abstract: Petrophysical Measurements on Shales Using NMR, by G. Martinez; #90911 (2000)

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Pore Geometry as Related to Carbonate Stratigraphic Traps

John L. Stout

AAPG Bulletin

... of this pore geometry. The laboratory procedure for capillary pressure measurement by mercury injection is briefly described by Scheidegger (1957, p. 51-52...

Investigations of the Storage Efficiency of CO2 in Carbonate Aquifers

Sugihardjo, Salis S. Aprilian, Agus Yusuf, Suprapto Sumardan

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... The solubility increases dramatically as the injection pressure is increased up to 4000 psig. In contrast, increasing temperature tends to reduce...

Insights on Porosity and Pore-Size Distribution Using Multiple Analytical Tools: Implications for Reservoir Characterization in Geologic Storage of CO2; #80564 (2016)

Cristian R. Medina, Maria Mastalerz, John A. Rupp

Search and Discovery.com

... adsorption and from mercury injection capillary pressure are important in that they provide insights on small pore size that otherwise cannot...

Petrophyscial and Fluid Flow Properties of a Tight Carbonate Source Rock Using Digital Rock Physics

Moustafa Dernaika, Osama Al Jallad, Safouh Koronfol, Michael Suhrer, Joel, Walls, Saad Matar

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... reservoir. Capillary pressure curves can be measured in the laboratory using mercury injection, centrifuge, vapor desorption, semi-dynamic and porous...

Hydrologic Evaluation of Industrial-Waste Injection at Mulberry, Florida: ABSTRACT

W. E. Wilson, J. S. Rosenshein, J. D. Hunn

AAPG Bulletin

... as the injection fluid during initial tests, and by measuring bottomhole pressure in the injection well and water levels in observation wells open to the injection...

Fractal characteristics of the anisotropic microstructure and pore distribution of low-rank coal

Junpeng Zou, Weizhong Chen, Diansen Yang, Jingqiang Yuan, and Yu-Yong Jiao

AAPG Bulletin

...13, Characterization of pore systems in seal rocks using nitrogen gas adsorption combined with mercury injection capillary pressure techniques: Mari...

Petrophysical Properties of the Sligo Formation of Northern Louisiana and Arkansas

Hugh J. Mitchell-Tapping

GCAGS Transactions

... curves in measuring pore-size distribution. However, mercury capillary injection curves measure the interconnected pore space and are limited by the pore...

Use of Mercury for Determination of Volume of Rock Specimens in Russell Porosity Apparatus

W. B. Gealy

AAPG Bulletin

... on the graduated tubes. The pressure of the mercury will ordinarily open the ground joint unless the apparatus is held firmly together. However...

Laboratory Investigation of Fluid Flow and Permeability Evolution Through Shale Fractures

Zhi Ye, Michael Janis, Ahmad Ghassemi, Spencer Riley

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... shear assembly can only provide extremely low fluid injection pressure due to sealing issues. The method of using manually displaced/offset specimens...

Buoyancy and Interfacial Force Effects on Two-Phase Displacement Patterns: An Experimental Study1

Tomochika Tokunaga, Katsuro Mogi, Osamu Matsubara, Hiroyuki Tosaka, and Keiji Kojima

AAPG Bulletin

... beads. The injection pressure and oil outflow rate were measured while we observed the displacement pattern. Runs were done using different grain sizes...

ABSTRACT: Restored State Automated Shale Analysis; #90129 (2011)

Paul and Mihai Vasilache

Search and Discovery.com

... injection capillary pressure and pore size distribution, acoustic velocity measurements and dynamic rock mechanics. The very low matrix permeability...

Chapter 9: Microstructure and Anisotropy in Gas Shales

Carl H. Sondergeld, Chandra S. Rai, Mark E. Curtis

AAPG Special Volumes

... within shales, which are consistent with macroscopic-averaged dimensions resolved by nuclear-magnetic resonance and mercury-injection capillary pressure...

Migration and Entrapment of Petroleum in Two-Fluid-Phase Systems

Dr. H. D. Windland

New Orleans Geological Society

... be measured by mercury injection analysis. This test Is based on the principle that pressure is required to inject mercury into rock porosity. The pressure...

Pore-Size Distribution in Sandstones: GEOLOGIC NOTE

A. S. T. Netto

AAPG Bulletin

... deduction). Using ^dgr and ^Thgr values for mercury in a quartz media (Vavra et al., 1992, their Table 2), converting Pc to pressure in absolute...

Pore-throat sizes in sandstones, tight sandstones, and shales

Philip H. Nelson

AAPG Bulletin

... using the injection pressure obtained from extrapolation of the plateau of the mercury injection curve to zero mercury saturation, hence these values...

Permeability, Capillary Pressure, and Relative Permeability Properties In Low-Permeability Reservoirs and the Influence of Thin, High-Permeability Beds On Production

Alan P. Byrnes

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

...-pressure properties discussed in this study were measured on Mesaverde/Frontier core samples using air-brine centrifuge and air-mercury intrusion...