On the relationship between effective permeability and stress for unconventional rocks: Analytical estimates from laboratory measurements

摘要

Permeability measurements show that unconventional rock is considerably stress sensitive because the matrix permeability is likely controlled by micro cracks and bedding structures in unconventional reservoirs. While there are a number of laboratory studies in the literature on the dependency of core-scale permeability on effective stress for unconventional rocks, how to determine the corresponding large-scale stress-dependency relationship (of more interest to practical applications) from the laboratory measurements has not been systematically investigated. This work proposes a method to estimate such a large-scale relationship from laboratory measurements.