Download or read book Understanding the Micro to Macro Behaviour of Rock-fluid Systems written by Richard Paul Shaw and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding how fluids flow through though rocks is very important in a number of fields. Almost all of the world's oil and gas are produced from underground reservoirs. Knowledge of how they got where they are, what keeps them there and how they migrate through the rock is very important in the search for new resources, as well as for maximising the extraction of as much of the contained oil/gas as possible. Some contributors to this volume have been trying to understand real rocks in real situations and others have been working on computer models and laboratory simulations. Put together, these approaches have yielded very useful results, many of which are discussed in this volume.