Subcritical propagation and coalescence of oil-filled cracks: Getting the oil out of low-permeability source rocks

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Jin, Z H ^a   Johnson, S E ^b   Fan, Z Q ^a  

^a University of Maine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLINEAR CRACKS; CRACK COALESCENCE; CRACK SPACING; CRACK SURFACES; FRACTURE MECHANICS MODEL; LOW PERMEABILITY; OIL CONVERSION; OIL PRESSURES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SINGLE CRACK; SOURCE ROCKS; TRANSFORMATION KINETICS;

COALESCENCE; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; KEROGEN;

CRACKS;

CRACK PROPAGATION; FRACTURE MECHANICS; KEROGEN; OIL FIELD; PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SOURCE ROCK; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 75749088341     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041576     Document Type: Article

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