Water imbibition is a key factor affecting the flowback regime of shale gas wells after volume fracturing. In this study, set experimental apparatus and corresponding test evaluation methods were developed to analyze laws forcible water in reservoir, characterize initiation time microfractures induced by hydration quantitatively, optimize shut-in wells; depths different pore types are quantitat...

Magnetic fabric analyses from two North Atlantic drift deposits provide proxies for determining relative variations in the strength of abyssal flow over the last 10 my. The data show a cessation of current-controlled sedimentation at the shallower Feni Drift (2417 m) at the time of onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation (2.6 Ma). Drift formation ended nearly 2 my earlier (4.2 Ma) at the deeper...

Molecular events in the clamp-loading reaction pathway of DNA replication are revealed by new crystal structures of bacteriophage T4 clamp loader-clamp-DNA complexes that capture two distinct conformations with the clamp open and closed.

Water loss in low permeability reservoirs during hydraulic fracturing well completions typically results in a decrease in natural gas production due to capillary trapping near the fractures. Shale gas reservoirs, however, have shown a trend of improved gas production with increased loss of completion fluids to the shale. This nonintuitive relationship between water imbibition and enhanced gas p...