Shale permeability measurements on plugs and crushed samples

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Canadian Unconventional Resources Conference 2012, CURC 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 342-355

  Tinni, Ali ^a   Fathi, Ebrahim ^a   Agarwal, Rajiv ^a   Sondergeld, Carl ^a   Akkutlu, Yucel ^a   Rai, Chandra ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFINING PRESSURES; EXPERIMENTAL FACTORS; MATRIX PERMEABILITY; MEASUREMENT APPARATUS; MEASUREMENT PROCEDURES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERMEABILITY ANISOTROPY; PERMEABILITY MEASUREMENTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CRACKS; GAS PERMEABILITY; NITROGEN; PORE PRESSURE; RESOURCE VALUATION; ROCK PRESSURE; SHALE;

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EID: 84875644207     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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