A permeability model for coal and other fractured, sorptive-elastic media

SPE Eastern Regional Meeting

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 89-100

  Robertson, Eric P ^a   Christiansen, Richard L ^b  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CURVE FITTING; DATA REDUCTION; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PORE PRESSURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SORPTION;

ELASTIC MEDIA; HYDROSTATIC CONFINING PRESSURES; SEQUESTRATION;

COAL;

EID: 33947573533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/104380-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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