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Research Article

Characteristics of a Coal Reservoir Pore-Fracture System and Favorable Reservoir Selection in the Kuba Coalfield, Xinjiang Province, China

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Pages 7799-7811 | Received 07 Dec 2018, Accepted 23 Jul 2019, Published online: 23 Oct 2019

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