... reduction. The models that have been proposed to describe this process are based on the gel strength and shear stress developments in time and ignore system compressibility. They explain the pressure reduction process observed in the lab where compressibility of the system is very small. However, the models...

...Paolo Macini; Ezio Mesini Radioactive Marker Technique (RMT), an in-situ method to measure reservoir rock compaction and to evaluate uniaxial compressibility coefficients C m , is examined here. Recent field applications seems to confirm that RMT-derived C m ’ s match with sufficient precision...