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(see Compressibility @ Wikipedia)@wikipedia

Synonym: Pore CompressibilityCPHI


A measure of
formation porosity porosity 

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 change due to pressure reservoir pressure 
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 variation:

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c_r\phi = \frac{1}{\phi} \frac{\partial \phi}{\partial p}

The above correlation assumes constant  which holds true in many practical applications.


There is a statistical correlation between initial formation compressibility It stays constant for small pressure variations (

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 and formation porosity which can be picked by various compressibility-porosity models.

Pore compressibility stays constant for small pressure variations but in ) but for a wide range of pressure variations  variations the dependence on ambient pressure  pressure 

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can not be neglected and can be estimated experimentally or via popular compressibility-porosity correlations on should be tabulated from laboratory core tests or estimated from compressibility-pressure correlations


The typical values are: 

cϕ = 0.5 ÷ 1.5  GPa-1

but may go higher for poorly consolidated rocks.


In many practical cases the pore compressibility can be considered as poorly dependent on reservoir pressure variation:

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c_\phi(p) = c_\phi = \rm const
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In this case porosity dependence on reservoir pressure can be simulated as:

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\phi(p) = \phi_i \cdot \left[  1 + c_\phi \, (p-p_i)  + 0.5 \, c^2_\phi \, (p-p_i)^2 \right]


But in case the reservoir pressure is changing substantially one may need to account for the effect it takes on pore compressibility (see Pore compressibility @model) and then  reservoir pressure - porosity model is going to take the following form:

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\phi(p) = \phi_i \cdot \exp \left[ \int_{p_i}^p c_\phi\, dp  \right]

See Also

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Petroleum Industry / Upstream / Subsurface E&P Disciplines / Petrophysics / Geomechanical Rock Modelling

[Compressibility][ initial pore compressibility ]

[ Compressibility (rock) ]

Pore compressibility @model ] 


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