Mudstone Diagenesis: Research Perspectives for Shale Hydrocarbon Reservoirs, Seals, and Source Rocks
11: Pore-Scale Imaging of Solid Bitumens: Insights for Unconventional Reservoir Characterization
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Published:January 31, 2020
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Tim E. Ruble, Kultaransingh (Bobby) Hooghan, William Dorsey, Wayne R. Knowles, Christopher D. Laughrey, 2020. "Pore-Scale Imaging of Solid Bitumens: Insights for Unconventional Reservoir Characterization", Mudstone Diagenesis: Research Perspectives for Shale Hydrocarbon Reservoirs, Seals, and Source Rocks, Wayne K. Camp, Kitty L. Milliken, Kevin Taylor, Neil Fishman, Paul C. Hackley, Joe H. S. Macquaker
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ABSTRACT
Characterizing unconventional reservoirs involves the investigation of a wide range of potential source-rock targets at various stages of thermal maturity. These samples may contain a mixture of kerogen, bitumen, oil, and pyrobitumen within their fabric. Thus, it is critical that we properly identify and examine each organic phase to better understand reservoir properties. In the present study, we have selected samples of gilsonite from a naturally occurring solid hydrocarbon deposit to serve as an analog for characterizing the bitumen phase of generation.
Gilsonite is an aromatic-asphaltic solid bitumen found in vertical veins along the eastern portion of the Uinta...
- bitumens
- electron microscopy data
- experimental studies
- fabric
- fracturing
- gilsonite
- kerogen
- organic compounds
- petrography
- petroleum
- porosity
- reservoir properties
- reservoir rocks
- SEM data
- solid phase
- source rocks
- textures
- thermal maturity
- Uinta Basin
- United States
- Utah
- pyrobitumens
- unconventional reservoirs