title: Quantification and description of fracture network by MRI image analysis.
abstract: The contribution of fractures to total porosity and their geometrical descriptions have been studied by Image Analysis applied to 1H Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Reservoirs of different lithology were acquired with MSME 2D quantitative and 3D sequences. An image analysis procedure, developed ad hoc, was then applied to these acquisitions and the petrophysical parameters computed. These parameters range from fracture porosity to fracture density.
authors.affiliation: ENI AGIP Division, Via dell'Unione Europea 3, 20097 San Donato Milanese (MI), Italy. massimo.balzarini@agip.it
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Balzarini
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nicula
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mattiello
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Aliverti
mesh_terms: D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D055585:Physical Phenomena; D010825:Physics; D016062:Porosity