Effect of stress on the microstructure of a graywacke sandstone from the site of the Rio Blanco gas-stimulation experiment
Description:
Project Rio Blanco was designed to increase rock permeability in an existing gas reservoir by fracturing the rock with a vertical array of three simultaneous nuclear explosions. The project site was CER Geonuclear hole RB-E- 01, Section 14, T35, R98W, Rio Blanco County, in the Piceance Creek Basin of northwest Colorado. The most essential part of this project was to produce fracturing in, and thereby to increase the permeability of, the reservoir rock. This report contains the results of optica…
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Date:
September 30, 1975
Creator:
Dengler, L.A.
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