Physics of fluid flow and transport in unconventional reservoir rocks / Физика течения и переноса флюидов в нетрадиционных породах-коллекторах

This book provides basic concepts and recent advances of fluid flow and transport in unconventional reservoirs across different scales (from pore to core and to reservoir) for a broad range of audiences from various scientific disciplines, such as geology, geoscience, geochemistry, geophysics, rock mechanics, and petroleum engineering. In the Introduction chapter, we address recent progress and ongoing challenges related to hydrocarbon exploration and production in tight and ultra-tight formations. The first part of the book on pore-scale characterizations consists of three chapters. In the second chapter, Wang and his coworkers present an overview of recent progress on pore-scale simulations and digital rock physics to unconventional reservoir rocks. They emphasize that further small-scale experiments are still required to validate numerical models. In Chapter 3, Wu and Tahmasebi review digital rock models. They discuss that incorporating multiresolution and multiscale structures and generating large-scale digital models are still very challenging. In Chapter 4, Ghanbarian and Esmaeilpour address the effect of scale on permeability and formation factor.<...>