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Do Shale Pore Throats Have a Threshold Diameter for Oil Storage?

In this work, a nanoporous template with a controllable channel diameter was used to simulate the oil storage ability of shale pore throats. On the basis of the wetting behaviours at the nanoscale solid-liquid interfaces, the seepage of oil in nano-channels of different diameters was examined to acc...

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Autores principales: Zou, Caineng, Jin, Xu, Zhu, Rukai, Gong, Guangming, Sun, Liang, Dai, Jinxing, Meng, Depeng, Wang, Xiaoqi, Li, Jianming, Wu, Songtao, Liu, Xiaodan, Wu, Juntao, Jiang, Lei
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4551973/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26314637
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep13619
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author Zou, Caineng
Jin, Xu
Zhu, Rukai
Gong, Guangming
Sun, Liang
Dai, Jinxing
Meng, Depeng
Wang, Xiaoqi
Li, Jianming
Wu, Songtao
Liu, Xiaodan
Wu, Juntao
Jiang, Lei
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Jin, Xu
Zhu, Rukai
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Sun, Liang
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description In this work, a nanoporous template with a controllable channel diameter was used to simulate the oil storage ability of shale pore throats. On the basis of the wetting behaviours at the nanoscale solid-liquid interfaces, the seepage of oil in nano-channels of different diameters was examined to accurately and systematically determine the effect of the pore diameter on the oil storage capacity. The results indicated that the lower threshold for oil storage was a pore throat of 20 nm, under certain conditions. This proposed pore size threshold provides novel, evidence-based criteria for estimating the geological reserves, recoverable reserves and economically recoverable reserves of shale oil. This new understanding of shale oil processes could revolutionize the related industries.
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spelling pubmed-45519732015-09-09 Do Shale Pore Throats Have a Threshold Diameter for Oil Storage? Zou, Caineng Jin, Xu Zhu, Rukai Gong, Guangming Sun, Liang Dai, Jinxing Meng, Depeng Wang, Xiaoqi Li, Jianming Wu, Songtao Liu, Xiaodan Wu, Juntao Jiang, Lei Sci Rep Article In this work, a nanoporous template with a controllable channel diameter was used to simulate the oil storage ability of shale pore throats. On the basis of the wetting behaviours at the nanoscale solid-liquid interfaces, the seepage of oil in nano-channels of different diameters was examined to accurately and systematically determine the effect of the pore diameter on the oil storage capacity. The results indicated that the lower threshold for oil storage was a pore throat of 20 nm, under certain conditions. This proposed pore size threshold provides novel, evidence-based criteria for estimating the geological reserves, recoverable reserves and economically recoverable reserves of shale oil. This new understanding of shale oil processes could revolutionize the related industries. Nature Publishing Group 2015-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4551973/ /pubmed/26314637 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep13619 Text en Copyright © 2015, Macmillan Publishers Limited http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Wu, Songtao
Liu, Xiaodan
Wu, Juntao
Jiang, Lei
Do Shale Pore Throats Have a Threshold Diameter for Oil Storage?
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title_fullStr Do Shale Pore Throats Have a Threshold Diameter for Oil Storage?
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title_short Do Shale Pore Throats Have a Threshold Diameter for Oil Storage?
title_sort do shale pore throats have a threshold diameter for oil storage?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4551973/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26314637
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep13619
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