This open access book primarily focuses on the methodologies for measuring the permeability of tight rock formations. Permeability stands as a pivotal parameter in assessing the permeability or transport capacity of tight reservoirs, exerting a significant influence on the extraction of reservoir resources. Laboratory experiments on permeability serve as a crucial means to understand the intrinsic permeability of shale. However, the permeability of shale is exceedingly low and is susceptible to influences from various experimental factors such as gas adsorption, ambient temperature, and testing apparatus. The precise measurement of shale permeability remains one of the challenges that perplex researchers and designers. This book aims to address the following key issues: permeability measurement methods that take into account the effects of adsorption, and the measurement of anisotropic permeability in rocks.
Introduction.- Review of permeability testing method.- A New Approach
to Simultaneously Determine Permeability, Porosity, and Adsorption Capacity.-
A modified one-chamber pressure-pulse decay method.- A large pressure pulse
decay method to simultaneously measure permeability and compressibility of
tight rocks.- A Canister Degassing Method for Simultaneous Determination of
Axial and Transverse Permeability in Tight Reservoir Cores.
Chaolin Wang received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from Chongqing University, China, in 2019. In 2021, he was promoted to an associate professor. Now, he is working at the College of Civil Engineering at Guizhou University. His research interests cover energy geotechnical engineering. He has received 4 national or provincial scientific research projects and published more than 100 international and national papers.
Yu Zhao, male, born in 1978, holds a Ph.D. degree and is a professor and doctoral supervisor. He was selected for the Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talents Support Program, recognized as a high-level innovative talent in Guizhou Province. He has received numerous awards, including the National Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class), the First Class Award for Scientific and Technological Progress from the Ministry of Education. He has led or participated in over 40 projects, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. As the first or corresponding author, he has published more than 100 papers in renowned domestic and international journals, been granted over 30 patents as the first inventor.
