Hello everyone. I'm working on reservoir rock mechanical properties. Do you know any conducted study on correlation between rock mechanichanal and thermal properties?
I remember having seen such type of study in context McMurray formation (for SAGD development), but unfortunately I do not have any public reference at hand. There were strong correlations which is not surprising because of the physical relationship at small scale . But the medium was very binary (sand - shale) and coverage in thermal measurements was poor.
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