This paper reviews the significance of solid bitumen with emphasis on source-rock
reservoirs. We discuss difficulties and discrepancies with terminology, especially those …

Organic petrography via incident light microscopy has broad application to shale petroleum
systems, including delineation of thermal maturity windows and determination of organo …

Silver nanoparticles-decorated Preyssler functionalized cellulose biocomposite (PC/AgNPs)
was prepared and fully characterized by FTIR, UV–vis, SEM, and TEM techniques. The …

With the increasing interest in unconventional resource plays, there have been important
changes in the way how reservoirs and their attributes are assessed and characterized. Of …

Pore-evolution models from immature organic-matter (OM)-rich Barnett (0.42% R o) and
Woodford (0.49% R o) mudstones were compared with models previously developed from …

Many of those assessing geochemical data have taken a “cookbook” approach to
interpretation. Such an approach generally does not take into consideration the limitations of …

The past two decades have seen a tremendous focus by energy companies on the
development of shale gas resources in North America, resulting in an over-supply of natural …

Wettability is an important reservoir property that can affect the distribution and migration of
geofluids within shale reservoirs, which significantly influences the occurrence state of …

This paper on core samples collected from the Triassic Montney Formation tight gas
reservoir in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) illustrates that operationally …

The presence of solid bitumen strongly affects hydrocarbon storage and expulsion from a
source rock as it might either cause blockage of pore throats leading to lower effective gas …