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Benchmark study using a multi-scale, multi-methodological approach for the petrophysical characterization of reservoir sandstones
Peleg Haruzi
The Dr. Moses Strauss Department of Marine Geosciences, Leon H.
Charney School of Marine Sciences, The University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Agrosphere Institute, IBG-3, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences,
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
Regina Katsman
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
The Dr. Moses Strauss Department of Marine Geosciences, Leon H.
Charney School of Marine Sciences, The University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Matthias Halisch
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Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, Dept. 5 – Petrophysics
& Borehole Geophysics, Stilleweg 2, Hanover, Germany
Nicolas Waldmann
The Dr. Moses Strauss Department of Marine Geosciences, Leon H.
Charney School of Marine Sciences, The University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Baruch Spiro
The Dr. Moses Strauss Department of Marine Geosciences, Leon H.
Charney School of Marine Sciences, The University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell
Road, London, UK
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Short summary
In this paper, we evaluate a multi-methodological approach for the comprehensive characterization of reservoir sandstones. The approach enables identification of links between rock permeability and textural and topological rock descriptors quantified at microscale. It is applied to study samples from three sandstone layers of Lower Cretaceous age in northern Israel, which differ in features observed at the outcrop, hand specimen and micro-CT scales, and leads to their accurate characterization.
In this paper, we evaluate a multi-methodological approach for the comprehensive...
