Gas production in the Barnett Shale obeys a simple scaling theory

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 49, 2013, Pages 19731-19736

  Patzek, Tad W ^a   Male, Frank ^b   Marder, Michael ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy resources; Fracking; Hydrofracturing; Scaling laws; Shale gas

Indexed keywords

NATURAL GAS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BARNETT SHALE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; DESORPTION; DIFFUSION; EXTRACTION; GAS TRANSPORT; GEOMETRY; HYDRAULIC PERMEABILITY; LIFESPAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OIL SHALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS; VISCOSITY;

ENERGY RESOURCES; FRACKING; HYDROFRACTURING; SCALING LAWS; SHALE GAS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; GAS, NATURAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OIL AND GAS FIELDS; TEXAS;

EID: 84889634280     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313380110     Document Type: Article

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