Shales are ubiquitous rocks in sedimentary basins, where their low permeability makes
them efficient seals for conventional oil and gas reservoirs and underground waste storage …

In the past 15 years, the shale gas revolution and large-scale commercial developments in
the United States have driven the exploration and development of shale plays worldwide …

The big success in marine shale gas exploration and production made China the third
country worldwide to commercialize shale gas development. However, the Upper …

The purpose of this article was to quantitatively investigate the pore structure and fractal
characteristics of different lithofacies in the upper Permian Dalong Formation marine shale …

Shale gas at a burial depth greater than 3500 m is an important potential strategic target for
exploration and development in China. Due to the complex geological and engineering …

With Sichuan Basin as focus, this paper introduces the depositional environment,
geochemical and reservoir characteristics, gas concentration and prospective resource …

The Lower Silurian Longmaxi Formation is an organic-rich (black) mudrock that is widely
considered to be a potential shale gas reservoir in the southern Sichuan Basin (the Yangtze …

Research on the evaluation criteria of shale oil and gas is conducted to accurately assess
the resource potential of shale oil and gas. Statistic analysis of the geochemical index of …

In recent years, theoretical geologic research has made important progress in shale gas
exploration and development, and new discoveries, such as the Jiaoshiba, Weiyuan and …

Shale with high quartz, feldspar and carbonate, will have low Poisson's ratio, high Young's
modulus and high brittleness. As a result, the shale is conducive to produce natural and …