Analysis of Permeability and Porosity Relationship with Power Law and Exponential Equation Approach

Abstract Porosity; a measure of the ability of hydrocarbon reservoir rock to hold reservoir fluid; and permeability; a measure of the ability of hydrocarbon reservoir rock to transmit hydrocarbon fluid; are very important parameters in the producing hydrocarbon fluid at optimal production, and in the recovery of hydrocarbon throughout the life of the hydrocarbon field. It is important to have a relationship between permeability and porosity determined from core sample. This relationship will be utilized to estimate the permeability from well logging measurement. There are 23 core samples measurements that being analyzed for permeability and porosity correlation. The approaches to calculate permeability value from porosity are using Power Law Equation approach and Exponential Equation approach. The Power Law Equation needs to obtained 7 constants. The calculated permeability as compared to permeability data from 23 measurement by using Power Law Equation, gives 2.48% of error. While the calculated permeability from the Exponent needs to obtained 6 constants. The calculated permeability as compared to measure permeability give 6.93% of error.