These results can then be modified and translated into effective storage coefficients that can be applied at the formation scale for the three main lithologies. To develop estimates of effective storage resources for entire basins, estimates for each formation within the basin must be summed. This same methodology can be applied for estimating effective storage resources within state/provincial and national boundaries.
In this way, the application of the broadly applicable effective storage coefficients developed by this project can be used to estimate the effective storage resource at levels ranging from site-specific to formation-level, ultimately spanning large sedimentary basins and even entire nations and continents.