Pore Scale Modelling of Gas Flow and Transport in Shale Rock Reservoirs

Abstract

This thesis present a literature review and a newly developed pore network model called PoreFlow to simulate shale gas flow and transport at the pore scale. Gas flow and transport in a pore throat network and single pore throats at the nano-pore scale have been studied with emphasis on the Kapp/Kd ratio of the shale gas matrix, thereby taking Knudsen diffusion and gas slippage into account.