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Permeability Prediction in Tight Carbonate Rocks Using Gene Expression Programming (GEP)

Authors: Yufeng Wei, Xinhua Xue

Published in: Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering | Issue 5/2021

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Accurate permeability prediction for reservoir rocks is vital to maximizing the efficiency of the hydrocarbon industry (Rashid et al. 2015a, b; Al-Zainaldin et al. 2017; Nazari et al. 2019). Nevertheless, the permeability of tight rocks is an extremely difficult parameter to obtain (Glover et al. 2006; Cui et al. 2009; Moghadam and Chalaturnyk 2017). The pulse-decay technique is one of the effective approaches used to measure the permeability of tight rocks (Hussein et al. 2017; Rashid et al. 2017; Lis-Śledziona 2019; Al-Khalifah et al. 2020). For very tight reservoir rocks, however, this technique is time-consuming and expensive, resulting in only a limited number of permeability assessments being carried out on cores. Clearly, it is valuable to accurately predict the permeability of tight rocks using less expensive and more reliable methods. …

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Title: Permeability Prediction in Tight Carbonate Rocks Using Gene Expression Programming (GEP)
Authors: Yufeng Wei
Xinhua Xue
Publication date: 24-02-2021
Publisher: Springer Vienna
Published in: Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering / Issue 5/2021
Print ISSN: 0723-2632
Electronic ISSN: 1434-453X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-021-02382-6

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