The past two decades have borne remarkable progress in our understanding of flow
mechanisms and numerical simulation approaches of shale gas reservoir, with much larger …

On the basis of micro-and mesoscale investigations, a new mathematical formulation is
introduced in detail to investigate multiscale gas-transport phenomena in organic-rich-shale …

The economic viability of a shale play is strongly dependent on permeability which is often
on the order of nanodarcies. Permeabilities are measured on core plugs or crushed samples …

Fluid mechanics of natural gas in organic-rich shale involves nanoscale phenomena that
could lead to potential non-Darcy effects during gas production. In general, these are low …

Distribution of alkanes and water in organic pores of shale, referred to as kerogen, is
essential information required for the estimation of shale-reservoir oil and gas in place …

Shale reservoirs play an important role as a future energy resource of the United States.
Numerous studies were performed to describe the storage and transport of hydrocarbons …

Proper characterization of reservoir quality of tight shales is critical for evaluating reservoir
potential. These reservoir quality properties typically include hydrocarbon filled porosity …

Kerogen is defined as the insoluble macromolecular organic matter in sedimentary rocks
and is a complex mixture of organic chemical compounds. Typically, a single chemical …

One of the most-significant practical problems with the optimization of shale-gas-stimulation
design is estimating post-fracture production rate, production decline, and ultimate recovery …

The transport mechanism of gas moving through matrix pores is the bottleneck of
conquering the difficulties in shale gas development. The matrix pores can be divided into …