Secondary porosity and permeability of coal vs. gas composition and pressure

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 114-125

  Mavor, Matthew J ^a   Gunter, William D ^b,c,d,e,f  

^a Tesseract Corp   (United States)

^b ALBERTA RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COAL GAS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; METHANE; POROSITY;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANTS; COAL SEAMS; ENHANCED COALBED METHANE (ECBM); SEQUESTRATION CAPACITY;

COAL;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COAL; COAL GAS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; METHANE; POROSITY;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COAL SEAM; METHANE; PERMEABILITY; SECONDARY POROSITY; SEQUESTRATION (CHEMISTRY);

EID: 33646336886     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/90255-pa     Document Type: Article

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