Laboratory characterisation of shale properties

Shale gas has become a significant resource play in the USA over the past few years and companies are now evaluating the shale gas potential of many sedimentary basins, including several onshore basins within Australia. The renewed focus on rock sequences that have hitherto largely been ignored has necessitated the development of workflows and methods for characterising shales. Along with the deployment of new methods comes the need for interpretation frameworks in order to understand properties such as rock source quality, mechanical properties and production performance from a diverse range of measurements. Laboratory characterisation of rock properties is an important part of any resource evaluation and for…

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