Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:
"Shale and tight oil-gas reservoirs have been successfully explored and produced not only in the United States and North America but also in China. Henceforth, they became one of the major contributors to energy supplies. Although research on fluid flow in tight and ultra-tight porous rocks had significant progress in the past decade, there is still a long way to fully understand mechanisms and factors contributing to oil and gas transport in such reservoirs. The complexity of fluid transport in shales is because of the pore network in such media is multi-scale and composed of nano- and micro-scale pores within organic patches and inorganic matrix. Understanding factors and mechanisms affecting fluid flow in shales has numerous practical applications, particularly in oil-gas exploration and production. This volume is a valuable source for recent developments and applications of unconventional techniques to shales and mudrocks, such as novel theoretical and computational developments as applied to ultra-tight rocks, digital rock physics, single- and multi-phase flow, decline curve analysis, non-Darcy flow and its applications to unconventional reservoirs, upscaling fluid flow in shales, effects of pore structure and connectivity on transport, oil and gas recovery in unconventional reservoirs, multiscale and multiresolution modeling of shales, stress- and scale-dependences of petrophysical quantities, and measurement of flow parameters"--