Acta Geophysica

vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 319-332

DOI 10.2478/s11600-006-0025-8

Compressibility of Porous Rocks:

Part I. Measurements of Hungarian Reservoir Rock Samples
Ali Ahmed JALALH
Petroleum Engineering Department, Miskolc University, Miskolc, Hungary
e-mail: jalalhali@yahoo.com

Abstract
Pore volume compressibility is one of the physical properties of a reservoir
that must be specified in many reservoir-engineering calculations. In the presented
research, the effect of compact pressure, temperature and porosity on compressibility was investigated. A total of twenty-two different cores were tested: five limestone, one friable sandstone, fourteen medium to hard sandstone, and two very
dense sandstone. Core samples were placed in the test cell and subject to compacting pressure up to 10,000 psi. Runs were made at room temperature and at 52C for
limestone samples.
Although there were some publications concerning measurement and study of
the effect of pressure and temperature on pore volume compressibility of reservoir
rocks, nothing has been published about compressibility of Hungarian reservoir
rocks, except of the work of Tth and Bauer (1988). The present study showed pore
volume compressibility data for different Hungarian fields. The result of the study
at high temperature (52C) shows that pore compressibility increases with increasing temperature.
Key words: pore volume compressibility, rock compressibility, reservoir characterization, rock properties.

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