The exploration practices of marine and lacustrine shale gas in the Upper Yangtze Platform,
South China show that there is a huge difference in gas content, which is mainly related to …

Pores related to organic matter and clay minerals provide significant storage space for
hydrocarbons in organic-rich shales. However, the pore structure evolution and its related …

High‐precision permeability prediction is of great significance to tight sandstone reservoirs.
However, while considerable progress has recently been made in the machine learning …

China is the second largest shale gas and oil producing country possessing large and
significant shale basins, and it is also one of the top carbon emitting countries. Therefore …

Shale pore type and variation have significant influences on natural gas storage and are of
vital importance for shale gas resource evaluation. To better understand the formation and …

This Review summarizes the diagenetic evolution of clay mineral structure and pores in
shale gas reservoirs. In the early diagenetic stage and in period A of the middle diagenetic …

Unconventional lacustrine shale formations are characterized by strong heterogeneity and
intensive lithological variations in the vertical direction. Nevertheless, most studies focused …

The increasing enthusiasm for continental shale gas exploration in China has made the
Shahezi shale in the Changling Fault Depression an important research target due to its …

Organic pores are considered to be the dominant contributors to total porosity and
hydrocarbon storage in many source rock unconventional reservoirs. In this study, organic …

To quantify the contributions of organic and inorganic compositions to pore volumes of
Chang 7 shales, sub-critical gas adsorption experiments were performed on a suite of shale …