{"id":1926,"date":"2014-11-11T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T07:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilandgasadmins.com\/oga\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2014-11-11T08:58:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T14:58:09","slug":"definition-of-the-day-porosity-and-permeability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oilandgasadmins.org\/oga\/definition-of-the-day-porosity-and-permeability\/","title":{"rendered":"Definition of the Day &#8211; Porosity and Permeability"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Porosity<\/strong> consists of the tiny spaces in the rock that hold the oil or gas. \u00a0Porosity of a rock is a measure of its ability to hold a fluid,<\/li>\n<li><strong>Permeability<\/strong> is a characteristic that allows the oil and gas to flow through the rock. It\u00a0is a measure of the resistance to the flow of a fluid through a rock.\u00a0 If it takes a <strong>lot<\/strong> of pressure to squeeze fluid through a rock, that rock has \u201clow permeability\u201d or \u201clow perm.\u201d\u00a0 If fluid passes through the rock <strong>easily<\/strong>, it has \u201chigh permeability,\u201d or \u201chigh perm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oil and gas is mostly\u00a0produced from sandstones.\u00a0 These rocks usually have high porosity, and are usually \u201chigh perm.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1927\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1927\" src=\"http:\/\/oilandgasadmins.com\/oga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Porous-Sandstone.jpg\" alt=\"Porous Sandstone\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oilandgasadmins.org\/oga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Porous-Sandstone.jpg 500w, https:\/\/oilandgasadmins.org\/oga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Porous-Sandstone-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oilandgasadmins.org\/oga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Porous-Sandstone-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/oilandgasadmins.org\/oga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Porous-Sandstone-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Porous Sandstone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porosity consists of the tiny spaces in the rock that hold the oil or gas. \u00a0Porosity of a rock is a measure of its ability to hold a fluid, Permeability is a characteristic that allows the oil and gas to flow through the rock. It\u00a0is a measure of the resistance to the flow of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-og-industry-definitions","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oilandgasadmins.org\/oga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oilandgasadmins.org\/oga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oilandgasadmins.org\/oga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oilandgasadmins.org\/oga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oilandgasadmins.org\/oga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oilandgasadmins.org\/oga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"https:\/\/oilandgasadmins.org\/oga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oilandgasadmins.org\/oga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oilandgasadmins.org\/oga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oilandgasadmins.org\/oga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}