4D imaging of fracturing in organic-rich shales during heating

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Kobchenko, Maya ^a   Panahi, Hamed ^a,b   Renard, Franois ^a,c   Dysthe, Dag K ^a   Malthe Srenssen, Anders ^a   Mazzini, Adriano ^a   Scheibert, Julien ^a,d   Jamtveit, Bjørn ^a   Meakin, Paul ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DE TRIBOLOGIE ET DYNAMIQUE DES SYSTÈMES   (France)

^e IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; FRACTURE NETWORK; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEATING; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KEROGEN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; SHALE; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

GREEN RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 83655164855     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008565     Document Type: Article

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