"Low permeability" means that a substance or material does not allow liquids or gases to pass through it easily.
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Sentences with «low permeability»
- Shale gas and tight oil from low permeability reservoirs have provided a new lease on life for U.S. oil and gas production. (resilience.org)
- That same technology is now being used on old exhausted oil reserves to recover oil, and can recover oil again from low permeability reservoirs. (thefinancialblogger.com)
- One reason the overlap between shale gas and sequestration regions is so great, they said, is that shale formations typically have very low permeability in the first place. (scientificamerican.com)
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