The Shale Oil Potential of the Posidonia Formation in the Netherlands

During the last decade shale formations have been successfully explored in the United States and both oil and gas is currently produced from them. This successful development led to a global interest in shale formations. To assess the worldwide shale oil and gas potential, the Energy International Agency (EIA) investigated the shale formations...

NMR Applications in Petrophysical Characterization of Shale Gas Formations

This thesis consists of multiple approaches to develop a new model to determine the porosity, permeability and the rate of desorption of 1.5-inch shale samples. The raw NMR signal of the sample in the coreholder is measured before methane injection and is used as base signal. During the injection of methane the raw NMR signal increases. The base...