| Title | Investigating influences on organic matter porosity and pore morphology in Duvernay Formation organic-rich mudstones |
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| Author | Knapp, L J; Nanjo, T; Uchida, S; Haeri-Ardakani, O ; Sanei, H |
| Source | Proceedings of the 24th Formation Evaluation Symposium of Japan; 2018 p. 1-9 |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Alt Series | Natural Resources Canada, Contribution Series 20180350 |
| Meeting | 24th Formation Evaluation Symposium of Japan; Chiba; JP; October 11-12, 2018 |
| Document | book |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Alberta |
| NTS | 73D; 73E; 73L; 73M; 83 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -119.0000 -111.0000 56.0000 52.0000 |
| Subjects | fossil fuels; sedimentology; geochemistry; petroleum resources; hydrocarbons; reservoir rocks; porosity; pore structure; pore pressures; bedrock geology; lithology; sedimentary rocks; mudstones; wells;
scanning electron microscope analyses; macerals; sample preparation; organic carbon; diagenesis; Duvernay Formation; Western Canada Sedimentary Basin; Phanerozoic; Paleozoic; Devonian |
| Illustrations | location maps; geoscientific sketch maps; stratigraphic charts; photomicrographs; bar graphs; histograms; plots; graphs |
| Program | Geoscience for New Energy Supply (GNES) Shale Reservoir Characterization |
| Released | 2018 10 01 |
| Abstract | Organic matter exerts a fundamental control on porosity and permeability in organic-rich tight hydrocarbon reservoirs. The complexities of these relationships are not well defined however and may be
influenced by a variety of factors including organic matter richness, thermal maturity, kerogen type, original kerogen structure and primary organic-hosted porosity, compositional fractionation, interaction with mineral catalysts, compaction, and
occlusion by generated products such as solid bitumen.
This abstract presents preliminary results from the first of three wells analyzed in the play fairway of the Duvernay Formation of western Canada -a prolific source rock and rising star as an
unconventional reservoir. Distinct porosity morphology groups have been observed in SEM and ongoing work has shown that organic matter porosity morphology may be influenced by organic matter composition and degree of isolation from nearby macerals.
Integration of porosity calculated from image analysis of focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM) images with results from nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), mercury injection capillary pressure (MICP), and helium porosimetry has
demonstrated that a significant portion of the porosity is below typical SEM imaging resolution and that even methods such as He-porosimetry are challenged to access nanometer-scale pores. Variations in sample preparation and analysis procedures can
significantly alter porosity results. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 313508 |
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