ABSTRACT: The Use of Laser Scanning Microscope (LSM) Method in The Pennsylvanian Siliciclastic and Carbonate Reservoirs of the Amazon Basin, Brazil; #90007 (2002)

Nilo Siguehiko Matsuda, Celia Tiemi Onishi, Ryo Matsumoto, Nilo Chagas Azambuja Filho, Ichiko Shimizu

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... of pore shapes, pore inter-connectivity and grain packing in 3-D. The LSM method can be used to visualize and map details of reservoir...

Integrated reservoir characterization and simulation of a shallow, light-oil, low-temperature reservoir: Umiat field, National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska

Catherine L. Hanks, Grant Shimer, Iman Oraki Kohshour, Mohabbat Ahmadi, Paul J. McCarthy, Abhijit Dandekar, Joanna Mongrain, Raelene Wentz

AAPG Bulletin

... to increased grain size and probably related to increases in pore size and connectivity. The upper shoreface facies association also implies higher wave...

Diagenesis and Rock-Fluid Interactions in the Cadotte Member From a Well in Northeastern British Columbia.

Mark Thomas, Brian Miller

CSPG Bulletin

...-lining chlorite and illite-smectite clays (CL) in a sandstone from the gas zone. The pore and pore throat in this example are unobstructed. (1500x) End...

Grain assemblages and strong diagenetic overprinting in siliceous mudrocks, Barnett Shale (Mississippian), Fort Worth Basin, Texas

Kitty L. Milliken, William L. Esch, Robert M. Reed, Tongwei Zhang

AAPG Bulletin

... mostly destroyed primary intergranular porosity. The porosity (average 5 vol. % by Gas Research Institute helium porosimetry) and pore size (8 nm...

Preliminary Assessment of Natural Fracture Patterns in Frontier Formation Sandstones, Southwestern Wyoming

S. E. Laubach, J. C. Lorenz

Wyoming Geological Association

... to switch by about 90° between adjacent beds. Where only one fracture set is present, fracture connectivity is low. Fractures generally terminate within beds...

Effect of Faulting on Fluid Flow in Porous Sandstones: Petrophysical Properties

Marco Antonellini, Atilla Aydin

AAPG Bulletin

..., permeability represents a proportionality constant that links Darcy's law to rock properties. Capillary pressure, which is related to pore throat...

Tertiary Coal-Bearing Heterolithic Packages as Low Permeability Reservoir Rocks in the Balingian Sub-Basin, Sarawak, Malaysia

Rosmalia D. Nugraheni, W. S Chow, Abdul Hadi A. Rahman, Siti Nuralia M. Nazor, Mohd Faisal Abdullah

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... quality. Clay cements have grown as a combination of grain-coating or pore-lining and pore throat blocking clots. The pore throat blocking cements caused...

Understanding Reservoir Behaviour through an Integrated Geological and Engineering Study

Duncan C. Barr, Tony Kennaird, Mehmet Altunbay

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

...-splay sandstone (Fig. 9) exhibits a fairly high threshold entry pressure of 4psi - indicating smaller pore/pore throat sizes- and a high residual water...

Deciphering Deep Coalbed Methane Sweet Spots in the Ordos Basin: Geological Influences and Characteristics

Zengqin Liu, Zongquan Hu, Baojian Shen, Bin Luo, Yitian Xiao, Shihu Zhao, Jiaqi Zhang, Xinjun Chen, Weishu Fu, Junyu Wan, Ziyi Liu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... shales, and argillaceous shales show a decreasing trend in sequence, but they exhibit different pore size characteristics (Figure 6). According...

Chapter 10: Petrophysical and Mechanical Properties of Organic-rich Shales and Their Influences on Fluid Flow

Fred P. Wang, Ursula Hammes, Robert Reed, Tongwei Zhang, Xiaohu Tang, Qinghui Li

AAPG Special Volumes

... in drilling and completion. Hysteresis in capillary pressure curves is a function of pore/throat aspect ratio, pore size distribution, and pore geometry...

ABSTRACT: Organic matter pore system in the high gas-yield Longmaxi shales: Do Graptolite-derived organic matter pores play a significant role?

Yong Ma, Ningning Zhong, Imran Khan

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

... in the shale which develop honeycomblike pore structure with good connectivity. Their pore radius is between 3 and 100 nm. SEM and FIBSEM 3-D image...

ABSTRACT: Lithology-Based Pore Pressure Prediction Success: Example from a Gulf of Mexico Mini-Basin, by Yardley, G., G. Couples, A. Aplin, Y. Yang, R. E. Swarbrick; #90026 (2004)

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Tracer-Guided Characterization of Dominant Pore Network and Implications on Permeability and Wettability in Shale, #42418 (2019).

Sheng Peng, Robert M. Reed, Xianghui Xiao,

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.... Tracer imbibition indicates pore connectivity; micro-CT imaging after tracer imbibition thus provides an overview of the connected pore network...

Experimental Study of the Phase Behavior of Hydrocarbon Fluids in Porous Media at Atmospheric and Elevated Pressures

Teresa Regueira, Diego R. Sandoval, Erling H. Stenby, Wei Yan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... porous materials with a narrow pore size distribution, not only at atmospheric conditions but also at elevated pressures. In addition, we also measured...

Spontaneous Imbibition of Fracturing Fluid and Oil in Shale

Morteza Akbarabadi, Soheil Saraji, Mohammad Piri

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... resource for oil production in North America. However, these reservoirs have very low permeability and porosity and poor pore-scale connectivity...

Anomalous Porosity and Permeability Preservation in Deeply Buried Tertiary and Mesozoic Sandstones in the Cusiana Field, Llanos Foothills, Colombia--Reply

Edward A. Warren, Andrew J. Pulham

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... The high permeability values of the Cusiana sandstones (figure 6 in Warren and Pulham 2001) are provided by unimodal, large median pore-throat...

Estimation of Single-Phase Permeability from Parameters of Particle-Size Distribution

Manmath N. Panda, Larry W. Lake

AAPG Bulletin

... and tortuosity) and the statistics of its particle-size distribution (psd). An expression of the relation between permeability and pore-level...

Prediction of Reservoir Rock Quality from Core Data Analysis: Abstract

Kartawie Putra, Dede Yusuf Darmawan, Herlan Adim, Lestari

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... The quality of reservoir rock is determined by reservoir rock characteristics influenced by pore size, pore distribution and drainage efficiency. Using nine...

Tackling A Critical Challenge in Shale Development in the Delaware Basin: An Interdisciplinary Field Case Study on Subsurface Scale Diagnosis and Control and Impact on Production Performance

Wei Wang, Lauren DeVoe, Wei Wei, Piya Dechongkit, Megan Fung, Katrina S. Ostrowicki, Le'Kendra B Fusilier, Ramez Hanna Alla, Qinmin Luo, Eddye Gallegos, Aygul Kostinovsky, Mehrnoosh Saneifar, Luisa Crousse, Chao Yan, Gregory Winslow, Hussein Chebli

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... migration from shale matrices to fractures. Table 3 shows a URTeC 3708626 11 comparison of different formation types in terms of pore-throat size...

Application of Principal Component Analysis Biplots to Reservoir Characterisation and Classification for Low Permeability Carbonate Reservoirs in the Middle East

Liang Sun, Hang Zhao, Fan Liu, Penghui Su, Kun Liu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and permeability. The permeability distribution with porosity ranges widely, and the pore throat radius is between 0.01-100 μm. The microscopic pore structure...

Uncertainty and Risk Analysis of 3D Geological Model for Syn Rift HP-HT Reservoir of Krishna…Godavari Basin, India; #11186 (2019)

Amit Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, Raman Kumar Singh, Ankur Mundhra

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... by visualizing streamlines and was quantified by estimating connected pore volumes. Based on ranking, model having better dynamic connectivity...

Fluid Flow in Mudstone: A Function of Pore Size Distribution or Grain Size Distribution

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Abstract: The Pore Size Distribution and Oil Storage Mechanism in the Wolfcamp Mudstone, Midland Basin;

Tongwei Zhang, Xun Sun, Chengjun Wu, Robert Reed, Scott Hamlin

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...Abstract: The Pore Size Distribution and Oil Storage Mechanism in the Wolfcamp Mudstone, Midland Basin; Tongwei Zhang, Xun Sun, Chengjun Wu, Robert...

Abstract: Comparison of Pore Size Distribution on Crushed and Whole-Rock Shale Samples Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (Nmr); #90321 (2018)

Mercy Achang

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...Abstract: Comparison of Pore Size Distribution on Crushed and Whole-Rock Shale Samples Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (Nmr); #90321 (2018) Mercy...

Quartz Cementation and Reservoir Quality of the Plover Sandstone in the Abadi Gas Field

Ryoichi Matsui, Emiko Shinbo, Mamoru Omokawa, Takahiro Zushi

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... reduction probably because finer-grained texture provides not only initially-narrower pore throat size, but also more intensive quartz cements...