A Comparative Study of Capillary-Pressure-Based Empirical Models for Estimating Absolute Permeability in Tight Gas Sands Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Abstract This paper presents the results of a laboratory study where we compare permeability estimates obtained from several mercury-injection capillary-pressure-based models to a set of measured (steady-state), Klinkenberg1-corrected permeability in tight gas sands. We evaluated 63 core samples from several prolific tight gas reservoirs in the U.S. Steady-state permeability and mercury-injection capillary pressure tests were completed on each sample. The permeability samples range is from 0.0001 mD to 0.2 mD. We review a variety of currently-employed models that are classified as belonging to either Poiseuille or Percolation/ Characteristic Length models. We identify those correlations that are best applied in tight gas sands by quantifying each method's accuracy and precision and force rank each based on error analysis score.

name of conference

  • All Days

published proceedings

  • All Days

author list (cited authors)

  • Comisky, J. T., Newsham, K. E., Rushing, J. A., & Blasingame, T. A.

citation count

  • 78

complete list of authors

  • Comisky, JT||Newsham, KE||Rushing, JA||Blasingame, TA

publication date

  • January 2007