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Compressibility

Created by Arthur Aslanyan (Nafta College), last modified on Nov 24, 2018

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A measure of relative media density $\begin{array}{l}\rho\end{array}$ change due to a unit pressure $\begin{array}{l}p\end{array}$ variation:

(1)	$\begin{array}{l}\displaystyle c = \frac{1}{\rho} \frac{\partial \rho}{\partial p}\end{array}$

Symbol	Dimension	SI units	Oil metric units	Oil field units
$\begin{array}{l}c\end{array}$	M^-1 L¹T²	Pa^-1	kPa^-1	psi^-1

See also

[Single-phase fluid compressibility] [Multi-phase fluid compressibility] [Pore compressibility] [Total compressibility]

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