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Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-725-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-725-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
Research article
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24 Mar 2022
Research article |  | 24 Mar 2022

Matrix gas flow through “impermeable” rocks – shales and tight sandstone

Ernest Rutter, Julian Mecklenburgh, and Yusuf Bashir

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Underground energy and waste storage require repurposing of existing oil and gas wells for gas storage, compressed air, hydrogen, methane, and CO2 disposal, requiring an impermeable cap rock (e.g. shales) over the porous reservoir. We measured shale permeability over a range of burial pressures and gas pore pressures. Permeability decreases markedly as effective pressure on the rocks is increased. Knowing these relationships is essential to the safe design of engineered gas reservoirs.
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