The project
has the following research flow:
The pore
network, reservoir
quality, and mechanisms of fluid flow in gas shales are significantly
different from those of conventional reservoirs and nonorganic
fine-grain sediments. Not been well understood, they are complex and
challenging. This research project utilizes multifarious techniques
from material science, petrophysics, petrology, and geochemistry to
characterize North American shale gas samples. The scheme of this
research is illustrated above, which shows a successive series of
conducted experiments on the shale gas research which include mercury
porosimetry, wettability measurement, clay mineralogy, geochemistry
analysis, NMR core analysis, submicron pore imaging, 3D pore
reconstruction, and gas flow modeling.