Diagenesis and sealing capacity of the middle Tuscaloosa mudstone at the Cranfield carbon dioxide injection site, Mississippi, U.S.A.

Environmental Geosciences

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-53

  Lu, Jiemin ^a   Milliken, Kitty ^a   Reed, Robert M ^a   Hovorka, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE-CEMENT; CAPILLARY PRESSURES; CARBON DIOXIDE INJECTION; CONFINING SYSTEMS; CRANFIELD; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FINE GRAINED; HIGH CONFIDENCE; MARINE SHALES; MERCURY INTRUSION; MICROFACIES; MISSISSIPPI; NANO-METER SCALE; PORE-THROAT SIZE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC; SEAL PERFORMANCE; SILTSTONES; WATER SATURATIONS; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

CARBONATE MINERALS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING EXHIBITIONS; ENHANCED RECOVERY; LITHOLOGY; MERCURY (METAL); MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; OIL SHALE; ROCKS; SANDSTONE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHALE OIL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER INJECTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DIAGENESIS; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HETEROGENEITY; MICROFACIES; MINERALOGY; MUDSTONE; PERMEABILITY; PETROGRAPHY; POROSITY; RECOVERY; RESERVOIR; SANDSTONE; SEALING; SHALE; SILTSTONE;

MISSISSIPPI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 81855161191     PISSN: 10759565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/eg.09091010015     Document Type: Article

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