Experimental investigations of the wettability of clays and shales

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Borysenko, Artem ^a   Clennell, Ben ^c   Sedev, Rossen ^a   Burgar, Iko ^b   Ralston, John ^a   Raven, Mark ^c   Dewhurst, David ^c   Liu, Keyu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CSRO Materials Science and Engineering ^*  (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGILLACEOUS DEPOSIT; CAP ROCK; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLAY SOIL; CORRELATION; CRUDE OIL; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; FAULT GOUGE; HYDROCARBON; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMBIBITION; MICROSCOPY; MINERALOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PIGMENT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SAMPLING; SHALE; SITE INVESTIGATION; SPECTROSCOPY; WATER CONTENT; WETTABILITY;

EID: 70349675929     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005928     Document Type: Article

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