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Well: McKittrick 418

Porosity

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Slide #54
Open porosity (white) = 4.1%. We can see open porosity immediately from the image analysis segmenting routine. The edges of the open pore charge up ("edge effect") and become very white on a secondary electron image. We can look exclusively at the very white pixels to get an estimate of open porosity. Slide #54


Slide #55
Hydrocarbon porosity appear very black on the same image, so we can tell HC-filled porosity as well. (Try to correlate this to calculated water and oil saturation. )