SEM petrography of dispersed organic matter in black shales: A review

B Liu, M Mastalerz, J Schieber - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Organic matter (OM)-hosted pores are important constituents of the pore system of black
shales and play a crucial role in determining their methane adsorption capacity and porosity …

Organic porosity: a geochemist's view of the current state of understanding

BJ Katz, I Arango - Organic Geochemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

[LIVRE][B] Unconventional reservoir geomechanics

MD Zoback, AH Kohli - 2019 - books.google.com
Since the beginning of the US shale gas revolution in 2005, the development of
unconventional oil and gas resources has gathered tremendous pace around the world …

Shale gas exploration and development in China: Current status, geological challenges, and future directions

C Sun, H Nie, W Dang, Q Chen, G Zhang, W Li… - Energy & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The big success in marine shale gas exploration and production made China the third
country worldwide to commercialize shale gas development. However, the Upper …

[HTML][HTML] Is organic pore development in gas shales influenced by the primary porosity and structure of thermally immature organic matter?

SC Löhr, ET Baruch, PA Hall, MJ Kennedy - Organic Geochemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
Organic matter (OM)-hosted pores, rather than mineral-hosted pores, are considered to be
the dominant contributors to total porosity and hydrocarbon storage in many organic-rich …

Pore structure heterogeneity of Wufeng-Longmaxi shale, Sichuan Basin, China: Evidence from gas physisorption and multifractal geometries

Y Wang, H Cheng, Q Hu, L Liu, L Jia, S Gao… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the heterogeneity of the nanoscale pore structure is critical for assessment of
hydrocarbon flow and storage in porous reservoirs. Multifractal theory is a powerful method …

Full-scale pores and micro-fractures characterization using FE-SEM, gas adsorption, nano-CT and micro-CT: A case study of the Silurian Longmaxi Formation shale in …

Q Gou, S Xu, F Hao, F Yang, B Zhang, Z Shu, A Zhang… - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
Pore-fracture structure of shales is important to shale gas resource potential evaluation,
exploration and development. However, investigations about the pore-fracture structure of …

Pore and pore network evolution of Upper Cretaceous Boquillas (Eagle Ford–equivalent) mudrocks: Results from gold tube pyrolysis experiments

LT Ko, RG Loucks, T Zhang, SC Ruppel… - AAPG …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT Low-maturity Boquillas Formation (Eagle Ford Formation–equivalent) organic-
lean calcareous mudrock samples collected from outcrop were heated in gold tubes under …

Shale pore structure characteristics of the high and low productivity wells, Jiaoshiba shale gas field, Sichuan Basin, China: Dominated by lithofacies or preservation …

S Xu, Q Gou, F Hao, B Zhang, Z Shu, Y Lu… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Both the characteristics of lithofacies and tectonic movements are important factors in
controlling the development, destruction, and preservation of pores in shale reservoirs …

Pore-types and pore-network evolution in Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Woodford and Mississippian Barnett mudstones: Insights from laboratory thermal …

LT Ko, SC Ruppel, RG Loucks, PC Hackley… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …