Field Application of Core Analysis and Depth-pressure Methods to the Determination of Mean Effective Sand Permeability

Abstract

EFFECTIVE sand permeabilities can be ascertained from core analysis if the laboratory data are compensated to allow for the presence of connate or residual water, Such adjustments can be made by applying empirically derived correction factors.Effective sand permeabilities can be estimated also from analytical studies of field depth-pressure measurements. In one method the time rate of pressure build-up after a well is shut in from steady-state flow is required, and in the other the direct measurement of a steady-state rate of flow and the corresponding equilibrium pressure.The results of the investigation discussed in this paper demonstrate that these methods for determining mean effective sand permeabilities can be correlated.