Innovative methods for flow-unit and pore-structure analyses in a tight siltstone and shale gas reservoir

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 355-374

  Clarkson, Christopher R ^a   Jensen, Jerry L ^a   Pedersen, Per Kent ^a   Freeman, Melissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; GASES; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PORE SIZE; PORE STRUCTURE; SHALE GAS; TIGHT GAS;

ADSORPTION DESORPTION; BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; CONFINING PRESSURES; PERMEABILITY HETEROGENEITY; PERMEABILITY MEASUREMENTS; POROSITY MEASUREMENT; SHALE GAS RESERVOIRS; TIGHT GAS RESERVOIRS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

ADSORPTION; DESORPTION; HETEROGENEITY; HYSTERESIS; IN SITU STRESS; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PERMEABILITY; PORE SPACE; POROSITY; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SHALE; SILTSTONE;

EID: 84857050818     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/05181110171     Document Type: Article

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