Permeability of clays and shales

CE Neuzil - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2019 - annualreviews.org
… The terms mudrock, mudstone, claystone, and argillite are in … clay and shale permeability,
how it depends on the scale … have yielded large-scale permeabilities linked to porosity and in …

Fractures in mudrocks: Advances in constraining timing and understanding mechanisms

JN Hooker, IS Abu-Mahfouz, Q Meng… - Journal of Structural …, 2019 - Elsevier
… unambiguously mappable at scales of 1:100 or greater. … Posidonia shale layers meeting
neither or only one of these … identified using various methods, often allowing the coupling of fluid …

Modeling of multi-scale transport phenomena in shale gas production—a critical review

H Wang, L Chen, Z Qu, Y Yin, Q Kang, B Yu, WQ Tao - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
… In this review, the shale gas transport process during shale gas production is firstly …
multi-scale transport phenomena involving shale gas molecule desorption from the shale matrix at …

… between cm-and m-scale geological and geomechanical heterogeneity in organic-rich mudstones: implications for reservoir characterization of unconventional shale …

M Venieri, SJ Mackie, SH McKean, V Vragov… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2022 - Elsevier
shale hydrocarbon exploration, which shifted the role of organic-rich mudstones from being
source rocks to become the main target of oil and gas exploration … and the various processes

Mudrock components and the genesis of bulk rock properties: review of current advances and challenges

KL Milliken, NW Hayman - Shale: Subsurface Science and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… of mudrock heterogeneity at the scale of grains and pores and describes some of the petrographic
insights on small‐scale processes … CL imaging can be usefully combined with different …

Shales: from the atomic scale to the rock-mass scale

CD Rodriguez-Hernandez, M Liu, E Volkova… - ARMA US Rock …, 2023 - onepetro.org
… with depth while diagenetic processes overprint new … , the structure of mudrocks and shales
remains poorly understood … us to explore the effects of mineral composition and particlescale

… , Insights into Additional Criteria for Evaluating Unconventional Reservoirs: Examples from the Duvernay Formation (Alberta, Canada) and the Woodford Shale  …

H Galvis-Portilla, D Becerra-Rondon… - … , Denver, Colorado, 22 …, 2019 - library.seg.org
… addresses some issues of sampling methods related to the over- … combined with XRF-elemental
profiles, showing that more heterogenous intervals are in fact the expression of cm-scale

[HTML][HTML] Coupled multiphase flow, geochemical, and geomechanical modelling of the impact of shale interlayers on CO2 migration

A Alsayah, SP Rigby - Geoenergy Science and Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
… of complicated, intricate processes affecting shale inter-layer … Therefore, it has been necessary
to explore the storage … , a field-scale reactive transport model was built with fully coupled

Correlative core-to pore-scale imaging of shales

J Goral, M Andrew, T Olson, M Deo - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
… in applying traditional laboratory methods has sparked novel … in reservoir characterization
of shales (mudrocks/mudstones) … recently started to explore its shale oil and gas potential. …

Astronomical forcing of meter-scale organic-rich mudstone–limestone cyclicity in the Eocene Dongying sag, China: Implications for shale reservoir exploration

J Zhang, Z Jiang, C Liang, TF Baars, Y Wang… - AAPG …, 2022 - archives.datapages.com
… , the mudrock successions composed of meter-scale mudstone–limestone couplets are
the most important shale oil-producing layers. The controls on the deposition of the meter-scale