Estimating pore volume compressibility by spheroidal pore modeling of digital rocks
SUI Weibo,QUAN Zihan,HOU Yanan,CHENG Haoran
Table 1 Aspect ratios and volume proportions of different types of pores in the spheroidal pore models of the 10 digital core samples.
No. Sample name Prolate ellipsoidal pores Oblate ellipsoidal pores Spherical pores Poro-
sity/%
Volume proportion/% Aspect ratio Mean Variance Volume proportion/% Aspect ratio Mean Variance Volume proportion/%
1 Bentheimer sandstone 54.19 1.11-7.96 2.07 0.440 45.76 0.16-0.90 0.54 0.020 0.04 23
2 Doddington sandstone 54.83 1.13-9.40 2.37 0.820 45.15 0.15-0.86 0.54 0.030 0.02 25
3 Estaillades carbonate 60.28 1.11-12.75 2.26 1.120 39.51 0.15-0.87 0.57 0.030 0.21 25
4 Berea sandstone 45.00 1.11-4.90 1.86 0.380 54.11 0.23-0.90 0.60 0.005 0.89 15
5 Fountainebleau sandstone 38.85 1.12-4.87 1.74 0.340 58.25 0.22-0.90 0.64 0.030 2.91 8
6 Wilcox sandstone 66.43 1.15-8.31 2.52 1.270 32.83 0.12-0.87 0.51 0.030 0.74 2
7 Daqing sandstone 57.71 1.11-9.58 2.43 0.830 42.23 0.11-0.88 0.50 0.020 0.06 13
8 Tarim sandstone 59.75 1.13-10.84 2.25 0.800 40.11 0.12-0.90 0.54 0.020 0.14 13
9 Eastern South China
Sea sandstone
57.69 1.14-10.72 2.38 0.880 42.19 0.13-0.88 0.52 0.020 0.12 14
10 Xinjiang sandstone 60.91 1.14-12.12 2.34 0.860 38.97 0.12-0.88 0.52 0.020 0.12 12