Primary oil recovery remains less than 10% in tight oil reservoirs, even after expensive
multistage horizontal well hydraulic fracturing stimulation. Substantial experiments and pilot …

The pore structures in coal are the occurrence and migration space of coalbed methane
(CBM). Therefore, the research on the pore structures in coal is of great significance for the …

Understanding the transport of liquid hydrocarbon through nanopores of inorganic minerals
is crucial not only to develop liquid-rich shale reservoirs, but also to grasp oil migration from …

Predicting long-term production from gas shale reservoirs has been a major challenge for
the petroleum industry. To better understand how production profiles are likely to evolve with …

We study the gas flow processes in ultra-tight porous media in which the matrix pore network
is composed of nanometre-to micrometre-size pores. We formulate a pressure-dependent …

Gas-producing mudrock systems are playing an important role in the volatile energy industry
in North America and will soon play an equally important role in Europe. Mudrocks are …

Permeability is one of the most fundamental properties of any reservoir rock required for
modeling hydrocarbon production. However, shale permeability has not yet been …

This paper presents an experimental study on the ability of organic-rich-shale core samples
to store carbon dioxide (CO 2). An apparatus has been built for precise measurements of …

A model for gas transfer in nanopores is the basis for accurate numerical simulation, which
has important implications for economic development of shale-gas reservoirs (SGRs). The …

Production of gas out of low permeability shale packages is very recent in the Western
Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB). The process of gas release and production from …