Total Porosity of Tight Rocks: A Welcome to the Heat Transfer Technique

Total rock porosity is a key parameter in a wide range of disciplines from petroleum to civil and mining engineering. Porosity is particularly important in petroleum engineering applications, e.g., from estimation of hydrocarbon in place to prediction of geomechanical properties. Conventional techniques used to measure the total porosity, i.e., mercury intrusion, nitrogen physisorption, focused ion beam–scanning electron microscopy (FIB–SEM),...