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Title Pore compressibility in rocks
Creator/Author Berge, P A
Publication Date1998 Jun 05
OSTI IdentifierOSTI ID: 2496; Legacy ID: DE00002496
Report Number(s)UCRL-JC-129939
DOE Contract NumberW-7405-Eng-48
Other Number(s)Other: ON: DE00002496
Resource TypeConference
Resource RelationConference: Biot Conference on Poromechanics, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, September 14-16, 1998
Research OrgLawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Sponsoring OrgUSDOE Office of Energy Research (ER)
Subject36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Rocks; Rocks; Porous Materials; Porous Materials; Compressibility; Compressibility
Description/AbstractThe unjacketed core compressibility in a porous rock is the change in pore volume due to change in pore pressure for constant differential pressure. This parameter affects how the saturated bulk modulus of a rock is related to the drained frame modulus and the pore fluid compressibility. Recent measurements of poroelastic constants and effective medium theories are used to estimate how the pore compressibility depends on effective stress and how uncertainty in the pore compressibility affects uncertainty in Gassmann' equation estimates of the saturated bulk modulus. Results for Berea sandstone and for models of sand-clay mixtures show that the estimate of the change in the saturated bulk modulus due to substitution of different fluids in the rock may differ in size by a factor of two or more if the pore compressibility is approximately equal to the fluid compressibility instead of the grain compressibility. In general, the order of magnitude and sign of the pore compressibility cannot be determined from solid and fluid compressibility information alone.
Country of PublicationUnited States
LanguageEnglish
FormatMedium: ED; Size: 194 Kilobytes
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