Use of borehole imaging to improve understanding of the in-situ stress orientation of Central and Northern England and its implications for unconventional hydrocarbon resources
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- 作者：Andrew Kingdon ; aki@bgs.ac.uk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Mark W. Fellgett ; John D.O. Williams
- 关键词：In-situ stress ; Petrophysics ; Unconventional reservoirs ; Fracking
- 刊名：Marine and Petroleum Geology
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：May 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：73
- 期：Complete
- 页码：1-20
- 全文大小：10194 K
文摘
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The stress orientation for northern and central England is extremely uniform.
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Mean maximum horizontal stress orientation is 150.9° with circular standard deviation of 13.1°.
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Borehole imaging drastically improves breakout identification.