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Strain gauging a sample for triaxial experiment
CSIRO provides a number of specialised services for the laboratory characterisation of unconventional reservoirs. The work uses a number of rigs developed to perform experiments at the appropriate pressures, temperatures and stresses encountered for unconventional formations.
Shale services
- High pressure (up to 47.5 MPa) and temperature (up to 300°C) measurement of hydrogen, methane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen (or other gases of interest) adsorption isotherms in shale and deep coal reservoirs
- Permeability anisotropy for shales and coals at reservoir pressure, temperature and stress
Cubic shale sample 3D printed membrane cubic sample installed
See Measuring anisotropic permeability using a cubic shale sample in a triaxial cell (paper)
- Hydrogen and methane diffusion in crushed or intact samples at reservoir pressure and temperatures
- Hydrogen and methane porosity at reservoir pressure, temperature and stress
See Experimental study and modelling of methane adsorption and diffusion in shale (paper)
Coal services
- Integrated characterisation of permeability, gas adsorption, shrinkage, cleat compressibility and geomechanical properties using coal core (See paper)
- Formation damage from drilling fluids in coal seam reservoirs
- Mixed gas adsorption isotherm measurement
- Specialised core flooding experiments
Multi-function triaxial core flow rig
