Coal permeability and its behaviour with gas desorption, pressure and stress

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition 2010, APOGCE 2010

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 1521-1530

  Connell, Luke D ^a   Pan, Zhejun ^a   Lu, Meng ^a   Heryanto, Deasy ^a   Camilleri, Michael ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY OF GASES; DESORPTION; GASES; GEOMECHANICS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; SHRINKAGE;

AUSTRALIAN COALS; BIOT COEFFICIENTS; COAL PERMEABILITIES; COAL PROPERTIES; EFFECTIVE STRESS; GEOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; UNI-AXIAL STRAINS; VERTICAL STRESS;

COAL;

EID: 79952920982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/133915-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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