3D fracture analyses of various rock samples through x-ray micro-tomography

Hydrocarbon reservoirs are currently declining. Reservoirs are becoming depleted, and production needs to satisfy the demand and supply of hydrocarbons. For tight reservoirs such as shales, fracturing will become the main source of improving the permeability. It is therefore vital to conduct research into the behavior of fractures in the...

Identification of the members of the Maastricht Formation in Valkenburg, the Netherlands

In the city of Valkenburg a new underground parking garage is being built next to the Hema. For this project four boreholes were drilled in the Maastrichtian limestone. These cores were described and tested at the laboratory of the department of Geoscience and Engineering of Delft University of Technology to obtain the geotechnical properties of...