As its name implies, petrophysics is the study and measurement of the physical properties of rocks. As soon as you start to take an interest in this field, you are struck by the duality between the “Physics” aspects and the “Geology” aspects.

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Petrophysics is the study of rock properties and their interactions with fluids (gases, liquid hydrocarbons and aqueous solutions). Because petroleum reservoir rocks must have porosity and permeability, we are most interested in the properties of porous and permeable rocks. The purpose of this text is to provide a basic understanding of the physical properties of permeable geologic rocks and the interactions of the various fluids with their interstitial surfaces. Particular emphasis is placed on the transport properties of the rocks for single phase and multiphase flow. <...>

The applications of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to petroleum expb ration and production have become more and more important in recent years. The development of the NMR logging technology and the NMR applications to core analysis and formation evaluation have been very rapid and extensive. Part of this book was a collection of many lecture notes written over the years for Chevron in-house training purposes. As we started writing, the scope of the book gradually broadened.

This chapter describes the difficulties associated with formation evaluation in thinly bedded sandstone reservoirs and outlines the existing technology that has been applied to these difficulties. Chapter 2 introduces our integrated approach to evaluating hydrocarbon pore-thickness in thinly bedded clastic reservoirs.

Many terms are introduced in these two chapters through examples and informal definitions: for example, earth models, bed types, logging tool forward models, convolution, inversion, statistical earth models, and Monte Carlo inversion. These topics are discussed more thoroughly in Chapters 6 through 10, and the integrated approach is described in detail in Chapters 11 through 13. <...>

This book has been written for those studying petroleum geology or engineering, for whom the role of the petrophysicist can become a lucrative and satisfying career. The handbook will be equally useful to students and practioners of environmental science and hydrogeology, where the understanding of groundwater flow is an important part of their technical remit.

Petrophysics is the study of rock properties and their interactions with fluids (gases, liquid hydrocarbons, and aqueous solutions). The geologic material forming a reservoir for the accumulation of hydrocarbons in the subsurface must contain a three-dimensional network of interconnected pores in order to store the fluids and allow for their movement within the reservoir.

Mathematical astrophysics and mathematical geophysics have their own journals and conferences, where practitioners discuss mathematical formulations that come to grips with the physical processes of the cosmos and planet Earth. Mathematical petrophysics is by no means new. It started in 1942 with the publication of an equation: the Archie equation.