Mechanical properties of shale-gas reservoir rocks - Part 2: Ductile creep, brittle strength, and their relation to the elastic modulus

Geophysics

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Sone, Hiroki ^a,b   Zoback, Mark D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP; ELASTIC MODULI; FELDSPAR; KEROGEN; OIL SHALE; PYRITES; ROCKS; SHALE GAS;

BRITTLE STRENGTH; DIFFERENTIAL STRESS; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; FRICTIONAL STRENGTH; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SHALE GAS RESERVOIRS; STRESS PARTITIONING; STRONG CORRELATION;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

COMPACTION; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; GAS; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; HYDROCARBON RESOURCE; ROCK MECHANICS; SHALE; SOURCE ROCK; STRENGTH; TRIAXIAL TEST; VISCOPLASTICITY; DUCTILITY; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; RESERVOIR ROCK; CREEP; FRICTION; LABORATORY METHOD; STIFFNESS; STRAIN;

EID: 84892844465     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/GEO2013-0051.1     Document Type: Article

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