
Originally Posted by
Yengineer
If you want the pressures only for the purpose of core property meassurements then you can use 20kPa/m for overburden and 10kPa/m for pore presure. The resulting net overburden will differ very little from actual numbers and results will be the same for most of the rock samples. This aproach is not good for anomalous gelogical areas and/or unconsolidated samples.
If you want the presures for production analysis or similar then the formation pressure has to be measured and the overburden has to be calculated from logs (density log)
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