Thickness-Independent Computation of Horizontal and Vertical Permeability

• Main Author: Onur, Mustafa
• Format: Patent
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://eprints.utp.edu.my/10753/1/US8473214B2_Patent_granted.pdf; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/10753/

A method for determining permeability of a reservoir using a packer-probe formation testing tool.The elements of the method include generating, using a dual packer tool module, fluid flows from the reservoir into a wellbore, obtaining pressure data associated with the fluid flows using an observation probe tool module, wherein the packer-probe formation testing comprises the dual packer and the observation probe tool module, identifying a portion of the pressure data corresponding to a spherical flow regime, determining horizontal permeability based on the portion of the pressure data, and displaying an output generated using the horizontal permeability.