Gas shale: From nanometer-scale observations to well modeling

Society of Petroleum Engineers - Canadian Unconventional Resources Conference 2011, CURC 2011

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 2304-2323

  Silin, Dmitriy ^a   Kneafsey, Timothy J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRON BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FLOW OF GASES; GASES; HORIZONTAL WELLS; ION BEAMS; NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PORE STRUCTURE; RESOURCE VALUATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHALE GAS;

ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; COMPLEX COMPUTATION; INTEGRAL RELATIONS; MESO-SCALE MODELING; MINERAL INCLUSIONS; NANOMETER-SCALE RESOLUTION; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 84860646606     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/149489-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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