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Name: Abdelrahman shanaa

ID: 201903068
Course: Well logging

Effects of pressure on electrical resistivity of rocks

- When?
This journal was published in August 1968.
-Where?
Department of Geology and geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge
-Why?
The author wrote this journal to highlight the effects of pressure on
electrical resistivity of rocks.
-What?
He compared the parameters; pressure and resistivity to come out with
the result.
-How?
The author conducted this using experimental method on various kinds
of rocks.
-Limitations were tested under atmospheric conditions
-Results
Pressure increases or decreases depending on different kinds of rocks
-Conclusion (result+conclusion)
The increase or decrease of pressure is relatively related to the kind of
rocks. A partially saturated rock becomes less resistive however a
saturated rock becomes more resistive. Resistivity of a rock of known
porosity can be calculated relative to fluid resistivity.
The journal entitled “Further studies of the effects of pressure on
electrical resistivity of rocks” tackles the consequences of pressure up to
10 kb on the electrical resistivity of 30 extensively various crystalline
rocks. Mainly, the analysis show that the degree of saturation of rocks
with low porosity (0.01-0.001) has an impact on resistivity and the effect
of pressure on resistivity. Furthermore, when the pressure is low the
saturated rock becomes less resistive. In contrast, as the pressure
increases the saturated rock becomes more resistive. Porosity establishes
the high-pressure resistivity of water-saturated rocks composed of
nonconducting minerals. It is assumed that there is a variation in
resistivity in function of porosity that differ according to rock types.
There are two rules conducted when the pressure is above 3 kb which
are the following:
η: ρrock/ρfluid = η-2

1/ρ (dρ/dP) = 0.10 kb 1

If the rock is composed of conductive minerals, resistivity decreases


with increasing pressure and then stabilizes. Indeed, when the pressure
results in collapse of pores for certain rocks, this leads to resistivity
changes. For instance, rocks containing calcite become abnormally
resistive at high pressure.
Finally, resistivity of sandstone changes depending on the shape and size
distribution of pores.
Reference:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1968JGR....73.5407B/abstract

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