Understanding permeability measurements in tight shales promotes enhanced determination of reservoir quality

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1394-1406

  Suarez Rivera, Roberto ^a   Chertov, Maxim ^a   Willberg, Dean ^a   Green, Sidney ^a   John, Keller ^a  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC PERMEABILITY; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; NATURALLY OCCURRING; PERMEABILITY MEASUREMENTS; PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PRESSURE DECAY METHOD; PULSE DECAY MEASUREMENTS;

COMPRESSION TESTING; MEASUREMENTS; MICROCRACKS; NUMERICAL MODELS; RESOURCE VALUATION; ROCKS; SHALE;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 84875648869     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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