A Theoretical Study on the Reduction of Statistical Pore System Parameters to Measurable Quantities*

As shown previously [50], the relations between formation factor, permeability, and porosity can be expressed in statistical parameters of the microscopic pore system. A number of other macroscopically measurable quantities depend on those same parameters. Thus, by proper combination of these quantities, it should be possible to solve for those parameters, that cannot be retrieved by direct methods. In this article, the dependencies on these statistical parameters of the capillarity with imbibition and drainage, the irreducible water saturation, the flow dispersion with miscible displacement, and quantities that are directly observable at ground surfaces or thin sections, are preliminarily studied as a preparation for possible practical measurements.