Review of *Archie's Law - A Reappraisal*
2016
This paper seeks to bring clarity to a field that has become increasingly murky since empirical modifications to Archie's Law have yielded a large range of fitting-parameter values that remain unexplained.The author takes a step by step approach to an analysis of the sources of systematic error in the measurement of the rock properties pertinent to Archie's Law.He discusses the relative importance of each and provides helpful recommendations for best practice.In this way, this will be a powerful contribution the Petrophysics community and a strong reminder to use empirical laws with caution (or better: with critical thinking) when theoretical laws are available.Prior to publication I have some minor remarks which I'd like to see addressed.(1) The author states that the data here presented must remain "unattributable" in order to be published.This may be normal in industry settings but, from a scientific point of view, this is alarming.At the very least, non-disclosure of the provenance of the rocks used herein precludes reproduction of the work by the interested reader, which is poor