Methods for Petrological and Petrophysical Characterization of Gas Shales

The increasing significance of shale gas resources to the global energy supply has resulted in an increasing need to understand shales as gas reservoirs. Shales commonly have complex organic and inorganic compositions and ultrafine pore structures. Fluid flow and transport in shale gas reservoirs (SGRs) are scale-dependent processes, including adsorption/desorption and diffusion of gas, water imbibition, and other non-Darcy flows, which is in...