New pore-scale considerations for shale gas in place calculations

SPE Unconventional Gas Conference 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 167-183

  Ambrose, Ray J ^a   Hartman, Robert C ^b   Diaz Campos, Mery ^a   Akkutlu, I Yucel ^a   Sondergeld, Carl H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b Weatherford Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-DENSITY; ADSORBED GAS; ADSORBED PHASIS; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; EQUILIBRIUM ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; EQUILIBRIUM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; FIB/SEM; FREE GAS; FREE-GAS PHASE; GAS PORES; GAS RESERVES; GAS SHALES; GAS STORAGE CAPACITY; GASPHASE; IMAGING TECHNOLOGY; INORGANIC MATRICES; LANGMUIRS; METHANE DENSITY; ORGANIC MATERIALS; ORGANIC MATTER; PHASE DENSITY; PORE SPACE; PORE VOLUME; PORE WALL; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; SHALE GAS; TOTAL ORGANIC CONTENTS; TYPICAL VALUES; VOLUME CALCULATION; VOLUMETRIC METHODS; VOLUMETRICS;

ADSORPTION; FRACTURING FLUIDS; GAS ENGINEERING; GASES; METHANE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PORE PRESSURE; QUAY WALLS; SHALE;

DENSITY OF GASES;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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