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SUBMITTER: Falk K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4421809 | biostudies-other | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature communications 20150422
Although hydrocarbon production from unconventional reservoirs, the so-called shale gas, has exploded recently, reliable predictions of resource availability and extraction are missing because conventional tools fail to account for their ultra-low permeability and complexity. Here, we use molecular simulation and statistical mechanics to show that continuum description--Darcy's law--fails to predict transport in shales nanoporous matrix (kerogen). The non-Darcy behaviour arises from strong adsor ...[more]