Mechanical properties of shale-gas reservoir rocks - Part 1: Static and dynamic elastic properties and anisotropy

Geophysics

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

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

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; ROCKS; SHALE GAS; SHEAR WAVES; UNLOADING;

DEGREE OF ANISOTROPY; DYNAMIC ELASTIC PROPERTY; ELASTIC PARAMETERS; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MATERIAL COMPOSITIONS; ORGANIC-RICH SHALES; SHALE GAS RESERVOIRS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

ANISOTROPY; DYNAMIC PROPERTY; ELASTIC PROPERTY; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; HYDROCARBON RESOURCE; KEROGEN; P-WAVE; PETROFABRIC; RESERVOIR ROCK; ROCK MICROSTRUCTURE; S-WAVE; SHALE; SOURCE ROCK; STATIC RESPONSE; YOUNG MODULUS; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; ROCK MECHANICS; NATURAL GAS; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY;

EID: 84892881315     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/GEO2013-0050.1     Document Type: Article

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