Recent developments allow high-pressure mercury intrusion experiments to be performed under reservoir-representative confining stress. NMR relaxation measurements on core samples are increasingly being used in addition to mercury intrusion data since the two techniques yield complementary information about the pore network. Integration of the different measurement techniques result in a more de...

Mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) measurements are widely used to determine pore throat size distribution (PSD) curves of porous materials. The pore throat size of porous materials has been used to estimate their compressive strength and air permeability. However, the effect of sample size on the determined PSD curves is often overlooked. In pursuit of a better understanding of the effect of ...

Physical and geochemical characteristics of shale play conclusive role in confirming operation measures during drilling and stimulation. The properties of shale samples from Jiyang depression were investigated through X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope, adsorption isothermal, high pressure mercury intrusion, methylene blue trihydrate, pressure pulse decay, tests of specific water w...

Abstract A universal capillary pressure model developed from fractal modeling of a porous medium was verified using the experimental data of capillary pressure curves of rock samples from The Geysers geothermal field. The capillary pressure curves were measured using a mercury intrusion technique. The results showed that the universal model could represent the capillary pressure curves of The G...

Mercury has been determined by radiochemical neutron-activation analysis in nineteen representative rocks from the Skaergaard intrusion and in the separated cumulus minerals of five. The chilled marginal gabbro contains o'23 ppm Hg, values in the Layered Series rocks ranging from o'o7 to o'34 ppm, in one exceptional case reaching I "23 ppm Hg. There is a tendency for mercury to be more abundant...

We optimized potential parameters in a molecular dynamics model to reproduce the experimental contact angle of a macroscopic mercury droplet on graphite. With the tuned potential, we studied the effects of pore size, geometry, and temperature on the wetting of mercury droplets confined in organic-rich shale nanopores. The contact angle of mercury in a circular pore increases exponentially as po...