Characterization of Core Scale Heterogeneities Using Laboratory Pressure Transients

In this paper, the authors construct a novel, state-of-the-art laboratory setup that captures several hundred pressure readings per second to study the response of cores to pressure disturbances. The authors used their new experimental setup to measure accurately and rapidly permeability of homogeneous cores, matrix and fractured properties of a fractured rock, and the individual segment properties of a butted core sample.