The complicated flow behaviors of multiphase fluids in shale reservoirs are significantly
influenced by fluid-fluid and fluid-rock interactions due to the non-negligible intermolecular …

Shale oil and gas primarily exist in nanoscale pore-fracture networks. Thus, it is essential to
clarify the flow behavior of hydrocarbon in confined nanopores. This paper summarizes …

Tortuosity is widely used as a critical parameter to predict transport properties of porous
media, such as rocks and soils. But unlike other standard microstructural properties, the …

Shale gas, although unconventional, is a prospective clean energy source. Shale gas
production is a complex multi-scale process with its spatial size ranging from the nanoscale …

Porosity plays a clearly important role in geology. It controls fluid storage in aquifers, oil and
gas fields and geothermal systems, and the extent and connectivity of the pore structure …

Shale oil is widely distributed in organic nanopores, while kerogen plays a complex and key
role for adsorption behavior of shale oil, and thus it is crucial to identify the associated …

Hydrocarbons in subsurface nanoporous media, such as shale, are promising energy
resources to compensate for the shortage of conventional reservoirs. Pore-network …

In the last decades, shale oil, mainly distributed in the nanopores of shale, has been
considered as the representative of unconventional energy to alleviate the energy crisis. But …

Matrix-related pore networks in mudrocks are composed of nanometer-to micrometer-size
pores. In shale-gas systems, these pores, along with natural fractures, form the flow-path …

One of the biggest challenges in estimating the elastic, transport and storage properties of
shales has been a lack of understanding of their complete pore structure. The shale matrix is …