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SUBMITTER: Backeberg NR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5665904 | biostudies-other | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Backeberg Nils R NR Iacoviello Francesco F Rittner Martin M Mitchell Thomas M TM Jones Adrian P AP Day Richard R Wheeler John J Shearing Paul R PR Vermeesch Pieter P Striolo Alberto A
Scientific reports 20171101 1
The permeability of shales is important, because it controls where oil and gas resources can migrate to and where in the Earth hydrocarbons are ultimately stored. Shales have a well-known anisotropic directional permeability that is inherited from the depositional layering of sedimentary laminations, where the highest permeability is measured parallel to laminations and the lowest permeability is perpendicular to laminations. We combine state of the art laboratory permeability experiments with h ...[more]