This Memoir covers recent advances in the acquisition and application of high-resolution image data to unconventional reservoirs. The value of integrating multiple techniques is a common theme. Chapters address imaging methods, recognition of artifacts, and case studies that explore nanopore systems within particular depositional settings. The importance of mineraology, organic matter content, and fabric to reservoir quality issues such as wettability, porosity, and formation damage are addressed. Read more...
Chapter 1. Amorphous and Crystalline Solids as Artifacts in SEM Images / Kitty L. Milliken and Terri Olson --
Chapter 2. Primary and Secondary Organic Matter Habit in Unconventional Reservoirs / Lyn Canter, Shawn Zhang, Mark Sonnenfeld, Cliff Bugge, Mary Guisinger, and Kim Jones --
Chapter 3. Nanoscale Imaging of Organic Matter and Wettability of Oil-Window Shales / Andrew Fogden, Terri Olson, and Andrew G. Christy --
Chapter 4. Unconventional Gas--Oil Shale Microfabric Features Relating to Porosity, Storage, and Migration of Hydrocarbons / Neal R. O'Brien, Roger M. Slatt, Carol A. McRobbie, and Elizabeth T. Baruch-Jurado --
Chapter 5. Multiresolution Imaging of Shales Using Electron and Helium Ion Microscopy / Timothy Cavanaugh and Joel Walls --
Chapter 6. Correlative X-ray and Electron Microscopy for Multi-scale Characterization of Heterogeneous Shale Reservoir Pore Systems / Jan Goral, Ilija Miskovic, Jeff Gelb, and Mike Marsh --
Chapter 7. A Comparison of Measurement Techniques for Porosity and Pore Size Distribution in Shales (Mudrocks): A Case Study of Haynesville, Eastern European Silurian, Niobrara, and Monterey Formations / Milad Saidian, Utpalendu Kuila, Manika Prasad, Leo Alcantar-Lopez, Saul Rivera Barraza, and Lemuel J. Godinez --
Chapter 8. Fluid Sensitivity Analyses in Tight Sandstones---When Rocks Behave Badly / Margaret Lessenger, Bobby Sullivan, Kurtus Woolf, and Darrin Burton --
Chapter 9. The Influence of Primary and Secondary Sedimentary Features on Reservoir Quality: Examples from the Geneseo Formation of New York, U.S.A. / Ryan D. Wilson and Juergen Schieber --
Chapter 10. 2-D Pore Architecture Characterization of a Carbonate Mudrock Reservoir: Insights from the Mid-Continent "Mississippi Lime" / Beth Vanden Berg and G. Michael Grammer.
