How Permeability Depends on Stress and Pore Pressure in Coalbeds: A New Model

SPE Reservoir Engineering (Society of Petroleum Engineers)

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 539-543

  Palmer, Ian ^a   Mansoori, John ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL; PORE PRESSURE; STRESS;

COAL PRODUCTION; FRACTURED MEDIUM; PERMEABILITY; PORE PRESSURE; STRESS;

EID: 0032443784     PISSN: 08859248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/52607-pa     Document Type: Article

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